Inside BNY Mellon's 400-Person Agentic Commerce Demo Day

Summary

Rodrigo Coelho of Edge & Node says enterprise and financial-institution interest in agentic commerce is accelerating. He describes a BNY Mellon internal demo day attended by nearly 400 people, where outside companies demonstrated agent-commerce products. BNY Mellon is building its own internal agent platform and letting employees experiment, though it has not yet enabled full financial transactions.

• Rodrigo Coelho says tier-one financial institutions are increasingly looking into agentic commerce.
• BNY Mellon hosted an internal demo day with nearly 400 attendees.
• Outside companies demoed agent-commerce products at BNY Mellon.
• BNY Mellon has its own platform for employees to build agents.
• BNY Mellon has not yet allowed full financial transactions through agents.
• The broader signal is accelerating enterprise experimentation with AI agents for payments.