Agentic AI

Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025

Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
Inside the Technology Shifts That Reshaped Payments and Risk in 2025
December 26, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

In 2025, payments, banking and commerce crossed a quiet but consequential threshold. Technologies that once promised efficiency or differentiation became nonnegotiable foundations, reshaping how money...

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Amazon Tightens Platform Access as AI Shopping Agents Expand
Amazon Tightens Platform Access as AI Shopping Agents Expand
December 24, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon is moving quickly to contain a new threat to its eCommerce dominance as AI-powered shopping bots begin to reshape how consumers discover and buy...

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FINRA Flags Gaps in Oversight as Gen AI Expands Across Financial Operations
FINRA Flags Gaps in Oversight as Gen AI Expands Across Financial Operations
December 23, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) reported that member firms’ use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is outpacing the controls, documentation and supervisory frameworks needed...

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Edge AI Emerges as Critical Infrastructure for Real-Time Finance
Edge AI Emerges as Critical Infrastructure for Real-Time Finance
December 23, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

The financial sector’s honeymoon phase with centralized, cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) is meeting a hard reality: The speed of a fiber-optic cable isn’t always fast...

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Alexa+ Now Integrated With Square, Expedia and Yelp
Alexa+ Now Integrated With Square, Expedia and Yelp
December 23, 2025  |  Retail

Expedia, Yelp, Angi, and Square are building agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for Amazon’s Alexa+. The new integrations are set to debut on the virtual...

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Fiserv Forms Agentic Commerce Pacts With Visa and Mastercard
Fiserv Forms Agentic Commerce Pacts With Visa and Mastercard
December 22, 2025  |  Partnerships

Payments/FinTech company Fiserv has launched agentic commerce-focused partnerships with Visa and Mastercard. The former collaboration, announced Monday (Dec. 22), combines Visa’s authentication and agentic commerce...

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AWS and Microsoft Present Agentic AI’s Banking Business Case
AWS and Microsoft Present Agentic AI’s Banking Business Case
December 22, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI is often portrayed as a ‘wait-and-see’ game. As PYMNTS Intelligence data shows, CFOs have expressed their curiosity and a limited amount of trust,...

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Visa Prepares Merchants for AI at the Checkout
Visa Prepares Merchants for AI at the Checkout
December 18, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Visa is on track to offer artificial intelligence-enabled commerce to consumers within months and expects that millions of consumers will be using AI agents to...

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