ampersend, a management platform for autonomous payments and agent operations developed by Edge & Node, has rolled out real-time sanctions screening and counterparty risk checks for autonomous AI payments.
Developed in partnership with blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs, the solution allows agents to assess compliance risks and validate counterparties before a transaction is completed, according to a Tuesday announcement.
The launch addresses a major challenge facing companies adopting agentic commerce. While emerging protocols from OpenAI, Stripe, Google and Shopify are creating frameworks for how AI agents execute transactions, they do not provide integrated mechanisms for screening counterparties or enforcing compliance requirements before executing payments, as noted by the team.
The new ampersend capability fills this gap by making compliance enforcement part of the decision-making process. Agents can now evaluate counterparties in real time and block transactions that do not meet sanctions or risk controls before transferring funds.
“Compliance is a primary concern at financial institutions, and ampersend now provides the tools and capabilities to meet the standards companies need to adopt agentic commerce at scale,” said Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node.
“As enterprises and financial institutions move from pilot programs to live agentic workflows, compliance and security can no longer be layered after the fact. We have embedded TRM Labs’ institutional-level capabilities directly into the agent execution layer so that regulated buyers can deploy with the same accuracy they expect from any mission-critical system,” he added.
The new functionality is available through the Ampersend developer toolkit and is intended for enterprises and financial institutions that deploy autonomous trading systems.
“TRM has always focused on getting ahead of risk before it becomes a problem,” said Morley Gordon, Head of Partnerships at TRM Labs, about the new functionality. “This integration brings that same proactive intelligence to a world where transactions happen between agents, not people.”