Klarna Joins Google's Universal Commerce Protocol to Advance Agentic AI Commerce

Summary

Klarna has joined Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open-source standard designed to enable AI agents, merchant systems, and payment providers to communicate seamlessly across the entire purchase journey — from product discovery through payment settlement. The protocol provides a "common language" that allows AI agents to interact with retail infrastructure autonomously, enabling shopping workflows that complete without requiring users to leave a conversational AI interface. Google