Bahrain’s CrediMax Partners with Mastercard to Explore Agentic Commerce

CrediMax , one of the leading providers of electronic payment solutions in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced a collaboration with Mastercard  to explore agentic commerce capabilities for merchants across the Kingdom.

As AI shopping changes how people discover, compare and buy. The collaboration will leverage solutions delivered through Mastercard Merchant Cloud, Mastercard’s unified, open acceptance framework that provides streamlined access to modular payment, agentic, fraud, authentication, tokenization, data and partner services— enabling merchants and businesses to scale faster, and more securely.

As well as leveraging Mastercard Gateway for payment processing, initial focus will be on Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants which brings AI powered ecommerce experiences directly into merchant owned ecommerce environments. The collaboration places CrediMax among the first institutions in Bahrain to work with Mastercard to scale agentic shopping experiences through Agent Suite for Merchants, which enables intelligent AI agents to assist end-to-end consumer journeys from discovery and selection through to payment and post purchase support.

“As AI agents become part of the purchasing journey, our priority is to help merchants respond with confidence and turn emerging opportunities into business growth. Working with Mastercard brings together our understanding of Bahrain’s merchant community and its global expertise in commerce and payments. Furthermore, our close relationships with merchants will help us identify where these capabilities can deliver the greatest value and make adoption more accessible, while preserving the service standards and customer relationships they have built.”

– Mr. Andrew Hocking, Chief Executive Officer, CrediMax

“At Mastercard, we are harnessing the power of innovation to empower companies to deploy agentic AI responsibly and at scale. Our collaboration with CrediMax allows us to align our proposition with the operational needs and commercial priorities of local businesses in the Kingdom. We focus on providing the technology and security foundations for effective adoption, translating the potential of agentic commerce into practical value for merchants and their customers.”

– Mr. Saud Swar, Country Manager, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Other Levant, Mastercard

Agent Pay is Mastercard’s technology framework for enabling trusted, secure and transparent payments in agentic commerce. It establishes a trusted digital identity for AI agents, allowing them to be authenticated, authorized and governed by consumer-defined permissions when acting on a consumer’s behalf. AI agents secure payments through agentic tokens that ensure every transaction initiated by an agent operates within the limits defined by the consumer, providing full visibility into which agent acted on their behalf and where the purchase was made.

This collaboration provides a scalable blueprint for how merchants, payment service providers and financial institutions in the region can adopt agent-driven commerce, helping build confidence in agentic transactions while paving the way for expansion across additional use cases and markets.