Twenty-seven nations are likely to come up with 27 different definitions of vendor risk. The European Union’s member nations are finding that out in real time. And while the long-standing debate around whether equipment from suppliers such as Huawei should sit inside critical communications infrastructure...
OpenAI added a virtual try-on feature to ChatGPT, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 1) release note. “Virtually try on clothing and accessories: A ‘Try on’ button will appear on product listings for clothes and accessories in ChatGPT,” OpenAI said in the note. “Select...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Synchrony’s Mike Storiale Artificial intelligence can already recommend the running shoes. The payments industry still must figure out how to let it buy them. While much of the industry’s attention has focused on AI agents, Mike Storiale, senior...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Billtrust’s Dave Ruda The finance technology playbook was once relatively straightforward. CFOs built out their department tech stacks by putting one piece of software after another between an employee and a cumbersome business process. For many teams today,...
BMO and Mastercard have launched a new embedded commercial payments capability that can be integrated into participating enterprise software platforms in Canada and the United States, BMO said in a Thursday (Oct. 1) press release. When this capability is enabled in a platform, BMO’s eligible...
The biggest mistake merchants could make in agentic commerce may be waiting for one protocol to win. There probably won’t be one. The emerging infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shopping is beginning to look less like the early browser wars and more like the internet...
Anthropic aims to start the formal marketing for its initial public offering as soon as the week of Nov. 9 and begin trading before the Thanksgiving holiday, Nov. 26, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 1), citing unnamed sources. The company is still considering its plans for...
A test drive at Cars24 lasts about an hour. Buyers raise loan worries, point out problems with the car and ask questions the salesperson may not answer well. Much of it used to go unnoticed. The Indian used-car retailer now records those conversations and uses...
A payment moving from one country to another passes through banks, clearing systems and payment networks that operate under different rules. The recipient information used to check the payment and bolster security can be just as fragmented. Payee verification connects some of those far-flung systems....