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
04 Jun 26 @ 21:01
OpenAI has widened access to its latest cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5 Cyber, granting several of the UK’s largest banks the ability to deploy the technology as part of their... read more
12 May 26 @ 15:42
OpenAI has launched Daybreak, a new cyber-security initiative designed to help organisations identify and address software vulnerabilities more quickly. The programme reflects a growing recognition that artificial intelligence is becoming... read more
30 Oct 25 @ 08:38
In a landmark move that could redefine the intersection of artificial intelligence and payments, PayPal has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to enable instant checkout and commerce within ChatGPT.... read more
07 Oct 25 @ 15:59
OpenAI has made another strategic move that signals a widening of its ambitions far beyond conversational AI. The company has acquired Roi, a personal investing app that combines portfolio management... read more
18 Jul 25 @ 12:23
OpenAI is developing a native payment checkout system within ChatGPT, signalling a bold step beyond conversational AI toward fully integrated digital commerce. According to multiple sources cited by the Financial... read more
02 Feb 26 @ 20:37
OpenAI has raised a pointed warning about an underappreciated vulnerability in agentic AI systems: hyperlinks. As AI agents move beyond conversation into execution — browsing the web, retrieving data and... read more
23 Jan 26 @ 14:48
Shopify is preparing its merchant base for a structural shift in online retail. From late January, products sold through AI chatbot checkouts will incur a new cost: a 4 per... read more
14 Jun 26 @ 15:00
Visa has unveiled an ambitious strategy to position itself at the centre of the emerging programmable money ecosystem, announcing plans to build the technology infrastructure that will enable banks to... read more
26 May 26 @ 20:22
Open banking and payments infrastructure provider Plaid has launched a new guaranteed ACH payments solution designed to reduce settlement risk and accelerate transaction approvals for businesses operating in the digital... 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
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
29 Jan 26 @ 21:31
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from novelty to infrastructure in retail, and nowhere was that more apparent than at Retail’s Big Show in New York. While retailers once dominated the... read more
26 Jan 26 @ 22:01
At NRF Big Show in New York, agentic commerce emerged as more than a futuristic talking point. The event revealed a retail and payments industry actively preparing for AI systems... read more
17 Dec 25 @ 13:51
Generation Alpha is the first cohort to grow up in a largely cashless society. Where grandparents once paid in shillings, francs or lira, fishing coins out of purses or pockets,... read more
12 Dec 25 @ 16:15
Agentic AI represents a decisive break from the assistive technologies that have defined the past decade of fintech innovation. These systems do not merely recommend or optimise; they evaluate options,... read more
26 Nov 25 @ 17:57
Checkout.com has thrown its weight behind the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), signalling a decisive industry shift towards AI-driven purchasing. The move positions the payments group at the centre of an... read more
20 Nov 25 @ 13:45
AI is about to redefine banking as we know it — not by digitising existing processes, but by taking the act of banking out of consumers’ hands entirely. According to... read more
03 Nov 25 @ 18:40
The world’s leading artificial intelligence developers are racing to close a major security loophole that could expose companies—including those in the payments sector—to sophisticated new cyberattacks. Firms such as Google... read more
13 Oct 25 @ 16:13
The payments industry is entering a new phase of transformation — one driven not by cards or mobile wallets, but by autonomous agentic commerce agents. Two of the most significant... read more
11 Jun 26 @ 16:00
A landmark legal battle that has shaped the economics of card payments in the United States for more than twenty years has taken another significant step toward... more
18 May 26 @ 17:07
The Bank of England has found that distributed ledger technology could improve aspects of wholesale payments and settlement, but only at the cost of significant... more
31 May 26 @ 12:59
The debate around European payments sovereignty has intensified significantly over the past two years. Policymakers, regulators and financial institutions acros... more