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As enterprises race to explore the capabilities of AI agents, a trust layer to govern agent behavior has been conspicuously absent. Now, Affinidi and CardInfoLink have officially deployed it in a production environment.
SingaporeJune 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CardInfoLink has deployed Agent Gateway on its agentic commerce platform Agenzo, which serves travel and hospitality merchants. This is considered the first commercial deployment in Asia where AI agents operate under an independent trust and governance layer. All AI agents connected to CardInfoLink’s merchants run on open standards within governed, auditable channels, without disrupting the underlying payment infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience in payment processing, CardInfoLink operates a mature merchant acquiring infrastructure across Asia. Affinidi is an active contributor to Linux Foundation-related standards organizations and participates in advancing next-generation digital trust infrastructure.
With Agenzo, consumers can instruct AI agents to book vehicles, flights, or hotels, and confirm each transaction during the purchase process. Behind the scenes, Agent Gateway governs interactions between agents, generating cryptographically verifiable records of all interactions and allowing only authorized agents to conduct transactions. The entire process runs silently in the background, without affecting the user experience for consumers or merchants. On the business side, the solution can be quickly deployed with simple configuration, requiring no complex modifications to existing systems, thereby simplifying the merchant’s agent readiness process. This enables stakeholders to open their services and products to AI agents under appropriate governance, with trust handled uniformly at the system boundary, eliminating the need to build trust mechanisms for each integration individually.
As AI agents begin to act autonomously within commercial systems, the key question is no longer whether they can conduct transactions, but who bears accountability after a transaction occurs. In its “2026 Future Fraud Forecast” report, Experian listed “the inability to distinguish between legitimate and malicious agents” as the top fraud threat facing enterprises this year, warning that current machine-to-machine transactions lack clear accountability. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2027, over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled due to rising costs, unclear value, and insufficient risk control. In January 2026, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority launched the world’s first agentic AI governance framework, recommending limited AI agent autonomy, human accountability, and technical controls as part of its proposed framework. Agent Gateway, part of the Affinidi Trust Fabric suite, is built to align with this framework.
Hyman Zhu, co-founder of CardInfoLink, said: “The reason containers were able to reorganize global trade is their demand for standardization. Agentic commerce requires the same: a trusted, standardized way for AI agents to interact with merchants. We operate real-world infrastructure, serve real merchants, and bear real consequences, which means agent-related work must have reliable governance mechanisms. Agent Gateway precisely builds this assurance into our existing systems.”
Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi, stated: “AI governance and payment processing are fundamentally different issues and challenges, requiring separate underlying architectures. Agent Gateway is a dedicated layer for governing how AI agents connect to their operating systems, independent of how payments are settled. In production environments, this layer has been missing until now. Through our partnership with CardInfoLink, it is now operational. Any enterprise putting agents to work will need it.”
This deployment represents the first practical validation of a widely called-for approach: embedding a governance layer at the system’s inception, allowing AI agents to operate compliantly within real-world systems.
For Affinidi, agentic commerce in the travel and hospitality sector is the first commercial application of its cross-industry trust layer, which will expand to cover industries from payments to healthcare in the future. Both companies believe this marks the beginning of an accountability-based agentic economy.