Sionic, an Atlanta-based leader in real-time, bank-to-bank payments at the point of sale, has announced a strategic partnership with Agentix, the infrastructure layer for agentic and AI commerce. The deal pairs Sionic’s Instant Bank Pay open banking rails with Agentix’s merchant-inventory technology so that autonomous AI shopping agents can discover products, verify sellers, and complete instant bank-to-bank payments on a consumer’s behalf. The main objective is to extend real-time, account-to-account payments into the emerging “agentic commerce” economy, giving merchants a new AI-driven sales channel while letting consumers shop and earn Perks through AI agents acting within pre-set rules. Key players are Sionic CEO Ronald Herman and Agentix CEO Hussain Punjani, whose companies are jointly building what they describe as the trust and payments layer for AI agents transacting directly against bank accounts rather than cards.
Sionic and Agentix Team Up to Bring AI-Powered Shopping Agents to Open Banking Payments
