31 Mar 26 @ 19:07
Nexi and PayPal have expanded their long-running partnership beyond Italy in a move that underlines a broader shift in European payments: merchants increasingly want fewer providers to manage, simpler settlement... read more
24 Mar 26 @ 17:44
Visa is moving to embed itself in what could become the next important layer of digital commerce: payments initiated not by people, but by software agents acting on their behalf.... read more
24 Mar 26 @ 17:43
European business buyers are becoming more receptive to AI in procurement and payments, yet the latest research from TreviPay suggests that enthusiasm alone will not determine supplier loyalty. What matters... read more
19 Mar 26 @ 15:00
Mastercard unveils new AI model to push artificial intelligence beyond the chatbot boom and into the operational core of global payments. Its latest move is the development of a new... 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
04 Mar 26 @ 15:40
CaixaBank has introduced a new AI agent within its mobile banking application, designed to assist customers navigating digital product purchases. The system marks a further step in the Spanish lender’s... 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
24 Feb 26 @ 12:26
The next evolution of digital commerce may not be driven by consumers clicking ‘buy now’, but by AI acting on their behalf. According to dispute specialist Chargebacks911, that shift could... 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
10 Feb 26 @ 16:59
As Agentic AI moves from experimentation to execution, Mastercard is arguing that technology alone will not determine winners. Instead, organisational readiness — spanning skills, data, governance and security — is... 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
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
28 Jan 26 @ 21:43
A quiet but consequential standards war is emerging across identity, data and payments. After two decades defined by proprietary platforms and bespoke integrations, the global digital economy is confronting the... 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
15 Dec 25 @ 16:21
The first trend in Global Payments’ 2026 Commerce and Payment Trends Report marks a decisive shift in how transactions are initiated and executed: AI is evolving from a passive recommendation... 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
27 Nov 25 @ 17:10
Agentic AI is no longer the stuff of forward-looking conference panels. It is beginning to reshape how commerce functions at a fundamental level, ushering in a world in which digital... read more
24 Nov 25 @ 15:57
EMVCo is stepping up efforts to bring order and security to the fast-evolving world of agentic payments, as artificial intelligence begins to assume a more active role in how consumers... read more
14 Oct 25 @ 17:34
Klarna has announced an expansion of its long-standing collaboration with Google, becoming one of the early supporters of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) — an open standard designed to enable... read more
20 Oct 26 @ 09:06
Mastercard has launched a new platform with BVNK that brings fiat currencies and stablecoins together through a single API, marking the first major integration since Mastercard acquired the stablecoin infrastructure... read more
23 Sep 26 @ 14:34
The European Central Bank has taken a significant step towards integrating distributed ledger technology with Europe’s core financial infrastructure, launchin... more
24 Sep 26 @ 16:29
Russia’s attempts to circumvent Western financial sanctions have developed into a sophisticated parallel payments architecture combining traditional banking, ... more
27 Sep 26 @ 18:53
Six major banks have joined forces to establish principles for trusted agentic commerce, warning that the rapid adoption of AI shopping agents could outpace exi... more