10 Sep 26 @ 15:45

Artificial intelligence is already changing how consumers shop, but the leap from AI-assisted discovery to autonomous payments remains some distance away, according to Visa chief executive Ryan McInerney. Speaking at... read more

13 Aug 26 @ 15:18

Artificial intelligence is beginning to change not simply how consumers shop, but how they discover products, compare offers and ultimately decide where to spend. Brazil offers a particularly striking glimpse... read more

16 Jul 26 @ 20:45

Mastercard has selected the UK as the launch market for Proto, a new sandbox designed to help banks, retailers and technology partners test agentic artificial intelligence before deploying it in... read more

01 Jul 26 @ 21:24

Just weeks after Payments Industry Intelligence reported on ING, Worldline and Mastercard’s completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment, another milestone has been reached... read more

11 Jun 26 @ 15:56

The race to commercialise agentic commerce has taken a significant step forward with Visa and OpenAI announcing a strategic partnership designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to initiate and complete... read more

07 Jun 26 @ 17:47

The race to commercialise agentic commerce has taken a significant step forward after ING, Worldline and Mastercard announced the successful completion of what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end... read more

04 Jun 26 @ 20:58

The rise of agentic commerce is rapidly reshaping the future of online retail, with enterprise merchants moving at speed to ensure their businesses are visible to AI-powered shopping assistants. However,... read more

27 May 26 @ 20:01

Chinese payments giant Alipay has unveiled what it describes as the world’s first AI Wallet and Token Pay platform, marking a significant step towards embedding payments directly into the emerging... read more

20 May 26 @ 10:57

Friendly fraud is not immune to the march of AI, and indeed, the emergence of automated tech as a defence against chargebacks has been embraced in industries with the strictest... read more

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

American Express is positioning itself early for what could become one of the next major shifts in digital payments: AI agents that do more than recommend products and instead complete... read more

08 Apr 26 @ 20:57

Visa’s latest research offers a revealing snapshot of how quickly agentic commerce is moving from theory to practical reality. The payments group argues that a new phase of digital trade... read more

22 Mar 26 @ 18:31

Starling Bank has taken a notable step in the evolution of digital banking with the launch of what it describes as the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant. Introduced within... read more

17 Mar 26 @ 15:03

Visa is moving to bring agentic commerce closer to commercial reality, launching a new programme with banks across the UK and Europe to test how artificial intelligence agents could initiate... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:46

Mastercard has unveiled a new open standard designed to address one of the most pressing challenges in the rise of AI-driven commerce: how to verify that a transaction initiated by... read more

05 Mar 26 @ 13:55

Klarna and Stripe are expanding their partnership to ensure buy now, pay later (BNPL) options remain available in the emerging ecosystem of AI-driven commerce. The collaboration will allow Klarna’s flexible payment... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:12

Nexi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Google Cloud to develop foundational infrastructure capable of supporting agentic commerce across Europe — a move that underscores how AI is... read more

03 Mar 26 @ 16:11

Banco Santander and Mastercard have completed what they describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end payment initiated and executed by an artificial intelligence agent within a regulated banking framework — a... read more

19 Feb 26 @ 16:32

Artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral tool in retail. It is becoming the interface through which consumers discover products, compare options and complete purchases. What began as conversational experimentation... read more

18 Feb 26 @ 13:35

The race to define the next phase of digital commerce via agentic payments has moved decisively into the banking mainstream. Visa and Mastercard have enlisted leading Asia-Pacific institutions to trial... read more

13 Feb 26 @ 14:51

Alipay has crossed a symbolic threshold in the evolution of digital payments. The company revealed that its agentic commerce, AI Pay platform processed more than 120 million transactions in a... read more