agentic commerce

Digital Money Has a New Payment Standard and It’s Not Built for Humans

Digital Money Has a New Payment Standard and It’s Not Built for Humans
Digital Money Has a New Payment Standard and It’s Not Built for Humans
April 03, 2026  |  Digital Payments

Digital payments have traditionally been a story of interfaces. Whether tapping a connected device or sending money through a platform’s API, the experience has been...

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What It Takes to Be Merchant-Ready for Agentic Commerce
What It Takes to Be Merchant-Ready for Agentic Commerce
March 31, 2026  |  Payments Innovation

The framing of agentic commerce as a future-only capability is increasingly an outdated one. At least, that’s becoming the case within the payments industry. Findings...

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Acquirers May Win Agentic Commerce by Building the Guardrails
Acquirers May Win Agentic Commerce by Building the Guardrails
March 26, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Agentic commerce has been framed as the payment industry’s next leap forward. “How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce” offers a more grounding take. The PYMNTS...

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Amex’s Squieri Says Service and Security Will Win Agentic Commerce
Amex’s Squieri Says Service and Security Will Win Agentic Commerce
March 25, 2026  |  Credit Cards

American Express sees agentic commerce and commercial services as opportunities to continue the company’s growth, Chairman and CEO Stephen J. Squeri wrote in a letter...

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Acquirers Say Risk and Readiness Are Slowing Agentic Commerce
Acquirers Say Risk and Readiness Are Slowing Agentic Commerce
March 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

“How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce” examines how acquirers are preparing for the next phase of digital commerce as AI-powered agents take on a larger...

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Visa Says AI Can Shop but Trust Still Has to Close the Sale
Visa Says AI Can Shop but Trust Still Has to Close the Sale
March 23, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: The Edit With Visa’s Andrew Torre ChatGPT’s consumer debut may have been only three years ago, but Visa’s leadership said the company is...

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Google Debuts New Ways to Let AI Agents Shop Like Humans
Google Debuts New Ways to Let AI Agents Shop Like Humans
March 19, 2026  |  eCommerce

Google has updated its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), the agentic commerce standard launched in January. Since then, the tech giant said on its blog Thursday...

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Why AI Shopping Is Still Just a Smarter Search Bar
Why AI Shopping Is Still Just a Smarter Search Bar
March 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

More than a year ago, I asked AI to help me buy a toaster. Not to browse. I knew exactly what I wanted, down to...

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