Robinhood opens platform to AI agents for trading, credit card purchases

By Niket Nishant

Wed, May 27, 2026 astatine 7:44 AM CDT 2 min read

By Niket Nishant

May 27 (Reuters) - Robinhood volition let customers to deploy AI agents to commercialized stocks connected its level and marque purchases ‌on its recognition card, the institution said connected Wednesday.

The institution ‌said its users volition beryllium capable to make a dedicated trading account, abstracted from their superior ​one, and person their AI agents commercialized connected their behalf.

• AI agents are integer assistants that spell beyond chatbot-style punctual responses by autonomously readying and making their ain decisions.

• Financial exertion companies are racing to crook AI agents from ‌experimental assistants into tools ⁠that tin transportation retired real-world transactions.

• In 2025, Visa rolled retired a caller level to let users to delegate their ⁠online buying tasks to AI agents.

• Robinhood said that portion the diagnostic is presently lone disposable for equities trading, it expects to grow it to derivatives, crypto ​and ​prediction markets.

• Users tin besides springiness agents ​access to a virtual Robinhood ‌Gold recognition paper to marque automatic purchases, specified arsenic grabbing performance tickets earlier they merchantability retired oregon buying products erstwhile prices driblet beneath a acceptable threshold.

• "I deliberation our assemblage close present is the aboriginal adopters of agents," said Abhishek Fatehpuria, vice president of merchandise absorption for brokerage astatine Robinhood.

• Robinhood ‌executives said they had enactment capable guardrails ​in spot to antagonistic concerns of agents going ​rogue.

• Users tin acceptable spending ​limits connected agentic recognition paper accounts and necessitate manual support ‌before immoderate purchase.

• Such controls are ​becoming a absorption ​as businesses pass that agentic AI adoption is outpacing their quality to show it.

• A Deloitte survey of accusation exertion and concern leaders, ​published successful April, said ‌that lone 21% of respondents judge that their organizations person a ​mature governance exemplary successful spot for agentic AI.

(Reporting by Niket Nishant ​in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)