Sokin launches an MCP connector letting AI assistants prepare — but not send — payments
The cross-border payments platform’s new connector lets tools like Claude and ChatGPT draft beneficiaries, FX conversions and payment instructions, with every instruction routed through existing human approval rules.
Sokin, a cross-border payments and treasury platform, has launched a Model Context Protocol connector that links its licensed payment infrastructure directly to AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, the company said.
MCP is an open standard, originally released by Anthropic, that lets AI systems call out to external tools and data sources in a consistent way rather than through one-off, provider-specific integrations. Sokin's connector uses that standard to let an AI assistant do more than answer questions about a company's payments — it can prepare beneficiaries, propose currency conversions, and draft payment instructions inside a conversation.
The distinction Sokin is drawing is between preparing a transaction and executing one. The company said every instruction an AI assistant drafts through the connector still has to clear Sokin's existing approval rules and compliance governance before anything moves, and requires human confirmation before execution — the AI can do the drafting work, but a person still has to sign off on sending real money.
That design mirrors a pattern showing up elsewhere in finance as agentic AI tools move closer to money movement: banks and payments companies building "human-in-the-loop" checkpoints into agent-initiated transactions, rather than giving an AI system standing authority to move funds unsupervised. The approach trades away some of the speed benefit of full automation in exchange for keeping a compliance and liability checkpoint in place.
Sokin did not disclose adoption numbers or usage volume for the new connector at launch, so its actual uptake among the company's business customers is not yet established.