14 Jun 26 @ 14:59
Stripe has unveiled a suite of new products designed to help UK businesses accelerate international growth and prepare for the emerging era of AI-driven commerce, underlining the payments giant’s ambition... read more
21 May 26 @ 18:38
The traditional online checkout is undergoing a profound transformation as artificial intelligence, digital wallets and increasingly localised payment preferences reshape how consumers complete purchases. New data from Stripe suggests that... read more
11 May 26 @ 19:52
U.S. Bank is deepening its relationship with Amazon Web Services in a multi-year technology programme designed to move hundreds of mission-critical banking applications into the cloud and accelerate the use... read more
07 May 26 @ 16:28
Anthropic is sharpening its pitch to financial institutions with the launch of ten ready-to-use Claude agent templates designed to automate some of the most labour-intensive work across banking, asset management,... read more
06 May 26 @ 16:45
Citi has introduced Arc, a new internal platform designed to help the bank build, govern and scale artificial intelligence agents across its global business. The launch marks a further step... read more
05 May 26 @ 16:52
Merchants are facing a new and awkward consequence of the rise of agentic commerce: their fraud systems may be rejecting the very customers they are meant to protect. As artificial... read more
21 Apr 26 @ 14:34
American Express has moved to deepen its presence in AI-led commercial payments by agreeing to acquire Hyper, the agentic expense management company formerly known as Hypercard. The deal, expected to... read more
14 Apr 26 @ 20:03
Visa is stepping up its push into agentic commerce with the launch of Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new tool intended to help businesses plug into AI-driven shopping without having to... read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
27 Sep 26 @ 18:52
Seven major UK financial institutions have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenised sterling deposits, marking an important step in Britai... more