--- title: "UnionPay International: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout" description: "UnionPay International: International arm of the UnionPay card scheme. Sourced vendor profile. Standards, checks and prices." canonical: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/unionpay-international site: "Agent Ready Checkout" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # UnionPay International: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checkout > UnionPay International: International arm of the UnionPay card scheme. Sourced vendor profile. Standards, checks and prices. Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/unionpay-international Site: Agent Ready Checkout Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Vendor profile, card network # UnionPay International In short UnionPay International published its own Agentic Payment Open Protocol, APOP, in April 2026. It covers agent registration and deregistration, intent checks and single sign-on, and it runs on UnionPay's acceptance network. Its debut payment, on 2 April, booked a taxi in Hong Kong. The release links no public specification and states no support for other protocols. ## At a glance What it is International arm of the UnionPay card scheme; released the Agentic Payment Open Protocol (APOP) framework in April 2026 for agent identity, intent management and payment authorisation on UnionPay's acceptance network. Type [Card network](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/network) Operator China UnionPay Homepage [unionpayintl.com](https://www.unionpayintl.com/) Last read 5 Nov 2026 ## What it does for this layer - UnionPay released the Agentic Payment Open Protocol (APOP) framework, announced in Shanghai on 3 Apr 2026, as its solution for agent-based payments. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026, dated 3 Apr 2026. - UnionPay says the first APOP transaction was a taxi booking completed in Hong Kong on 2 Apr 2026, made through an AI assistant built by Evonet against the ride-hailing platform Hoppa. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026, dated 2 Apr 2026. - UnionPay says APOP supports the lifecycle management of agent identity, from registration and information updates to deregistration. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026. - UnionPay says APOP covers intent generation, registration and verification, and builds its trust mechanism around user intent. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026. - UnionPay says APOP offers user identity management with single sign-on across participating parties. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026. - UnionPay says APOP is built on UnionPay's global acceptance network and aims at interoperability across institutions, platforms and use cases in and outside mainland China. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026. - UnionPay lists compliance and controllability and security first among the APOP design principles, with agent identity verification and intent management meant to make agent payments traceable. [kyodonewsprwire.jp](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026. - Lianlian DigiTech and UnionPay International signed a strategic cooperation agreement in July 2026 to build AI-agent payment applications for cross-border commerce, starting with supplier matching and payment execution for enterprise purchasing. [fintechnews.hk](https://fintechnews.hk/39856/ai/lianlian-unionpay-ai-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026, dated 29 Jul 2026. Secondary source **Partner lists that name it** | Where it appears | Source | Basis | Read | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Collaborators quoted in Google Cloud's AP2 launch post, 16 Sep 2025 | cloud.google.com | Secondary source | 5 Nov 2026 | ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price on file | | --- | --- | --- | | Agentic Payment Open Protocol (APOP) | UnionPay's framework for agent identity lifecycle, intent management, user identity and payment authorisation on the UnionPay network. | No price on file | ## Standards | Standard | Status | Evidence and source | | --- | --- | --- | | ACP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | UCP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | AP2 | announced | cloud.google.com, read 5 Nov 2026 | | Visa TAP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Visa IC | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Mastercard Agent Pay | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Agent Pay for Machines | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Amex ACE | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | x402 | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | MPP | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Link for agents | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | | Verifiable Intent | no statement | None in the pages read, 5 Nov 2026 | ## Checks on this vendor's domains | Check | Result | Domain read | Dated | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Ora agent-readiness score (cached) | no cached score (HTTP 404, DOMAIN_NOT_SCANNED) | unionpayintl.com | 5 Nov 2026 | ora.ai | | Cloudflare isitagentready scan | 0/100 (L0 Not Ready) | unionpayintl.com | 5 Nov 2026 | POST /api/scan on isitagentready.com, documented in llms-full.txt | | Homepage fetch at build | HTTP 200 | unionpayintl.com | 5 Nov 2026 | unionpayintl.com | [How each check is read](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors#checks) ## What it does not do - UnionPay International's APOP release links no public specification or developer documentation; the framework is described in the release only. - UnionPay International states no support for TAP, Agent Pay, ACP or UCP; APOP is its own framework. ## Related pages on this site - [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](https://agentreadycheckout.com/protocols/ap2), protocol profile - [All card networks](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors/by-type/network) in the vendors section - [All vendors](https://agentreadycheckout.com/vendors) ## Sources 1. [unionpayintl.com](https://www.unionpayintl.com/), read 5 Nov 2026 2. [UnionPay Launches Agentic Payment Open Protocol Framework: Building an Open, Trusted Smart Payment Ecosystem | UnionPay Internationalのプレスリリース | 共同通信PRワイヤー](https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202604036910), read 5 Nov 2026 3. [Lianlian and UnionPay Partner to Develop AI Agents for Cross-Border Payments - Fintech Hong Kong](https://fintechnews.hk/39856/ai/lianlian-unionpay-ai-payments/), read 5 Nov 2026. Secondary source 4. [cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol), read 5 Nov 2026 5. [Ora cached score record for unionpayintl.com](https://ora.ai/api/score/unionpayintl.com?utm_source=agentreadycheckout.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=vendor), read 5 Nov 2026 6. [isitagentready scan service documentation (llms-full.txt)](https://isitagentready.com/llms-full.txt), read 5 Nov 2026 Last reviewed 5 Nov 2026 ## Edition Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026. Reviewed 5 Nov 2026, [6 sources](#sources-h). ## Method [How cells, sources and read dates are defined](https://agentreadycheckout.com/method)