Agentic AI Meets Its Missing Layer: Market Access

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AI agents can reason about trades, but market access requires identity, authorization, controls, and settlement infrastructure built for software acting.
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AI agents can analyze markets and generate trading decisions, but financial infrastructure was built around humans as the final authorization layer. This article examines the emerging market access layer for agentic AI, where agents receive scoped permissions, operate through isolated accounts, and connect to financial venues through standardized protocols. The remaining challenges are identity, delegated authority, execution controls, and liability when agents act within their permitted scope but produce unwanted outcomes.