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 existing safeguards around fraud, scams, privacy... read more

24 Sep 26 @ 16:28

PayPal has partnered with Meta to enable users of the technology group’s new Muse personal AI agent to shop and check out across PayPal’s merchant network, adding another major payments... read more

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