Announcing the new Payments Tech Council members

[amithanda]

Announcement

The nomination process for the Payments Tech Council (Payments TC) has officially closed. Following our initial Nomination announcement, we have finalized the council's structure and composition in alignment with the approved Payments TC Charter and the updated Governance Changes. The newly appointed members have been added to the UCP maintainers file.

Welcome to the new members

We are excited to welcome Adyen NV, Ant International, Coinbase, Global Payments, Google, Paypal, Shopify, and Stripe as the inaugural members of the Payments TC. We look forward to their collaboration and leadership in defining open standards and driving the payments technical roadmap in UCP.

Due to strong interest across diverse payment domains, we are also inviting statement of interest to form the following UCP Domain Working Groups (DWG):

• Tokenization DWG: Add UCP support for appropriate tokenized representations of payment credentials for agentic flows - proposed initial members - At least 1 Domain Tech Council (DTC) member + American Express, Mastercard, Visa
• Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) DWG: Add UCP support to find BNPL terms during product discovery and BNPL payment requests processing via payment handlers - proposed initial members - At least 1 DTC member + Klarna, Affirm Inc.

We will also be opening up international market focused DWG’s in the near future to add UCP support for market specific payment ecosystem needs, so stay tuned.

We encourage all community members to contribute to the protocol, as active technical contribution will serve as one of the primary criteria to fill open seats in future elections for the Payments TC.

[arjkul]

I see some positions are still open. I'd love to contribute. Let me know if it's still possible to add more members

[benchrr]

Radius would love to be involved. We've worked on this space since 2024 @ MIT.

[bripeterspaypal]

Excited for PayPal to be contributing to the Payments TC alongside so many industry leaders.