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Airwallex has raised $320 million, pushing its valuation to $11 billion, as the fintech company moves to build the financial infrastructure for a world where artificial intelligence agents handle business payments and finance.
The raise is a directional bet that autonomous software, not human finance teams, will increasingly execute the routine work of moving money — and that whoever builds the plumbing for those systems holds a foundational position in the AI economy.
What "Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents" Means An AI agent is software that can take actions autonomously — including financial ones.
In a business context, that could mean software approving invoices, routing payments to suppliers, managing corporate accounts, or reconciling transactions without waiting for a human to initiate each step.
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