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Virtual Cards Become the Permission Layer for Agent-Driven B2B Payments
Virtual Cards Become the Permission Layer for Agent-Driven B2B Payments
September 25, 2026  |  B2B Payments

Corporate cards provided a scalable answer to the question of who is allowed to spend company money. Virtual cards are taking that answer even further,...

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Why Building AI Agents Is No Longer the Hardest Part of Agentic Commerce
Why Building AI Agents Is No Longer the Hardest Part of Agentic Commerce
September 25, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Sabrina Therani Agentic commerce is becoming an infrastructure race. The biggest agentic constraint today is not whether AI...

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51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
September 25, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraud budgets are moving in two different directions. Fifty-one percent of global eCommerce merchants expect spending on fraud-management staff to remain flat or decline, while...

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Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
Buyers Want to Pay Later. Suppliers Want Cash Earlier. Who Funds the Difference?
September 24, 2026  |  B2B Payments

The oldest tension in B2B payments is becoming one of its newest business models. A dollar cannot simultaneously stay longer on the buyer’s balance sheet...

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Stablecoins Changed the Rails but Haven’t Captured the Economics
Stablecoins Changed the Rails but Haven’t Captured the Economics
September 24, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins spent years trying to prove they could move money better than banks, and they have succeeded. Announcements this week from banks, card networks, cryptocurrency...

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Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants...

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HHS Wants a Paper Trail for AI in Federally Funded Research
HHS Wants a Paper Trail for AI in Federally Funded Research
September 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A researcher uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to process data, draft a grant application or assemble a literature review. If the work is later challenged,...

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Mastercard: Merchants Want AI Shoppers Without Losing the Customer
Mastercard: Merchants Want AI Shoppers Without Losing the Customer
September 24, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Gaurang Shah of Mastercard Agentic commerce is approaching an awkward transition point in its adoption cycle. The artificial intelligence...

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Why 63 CPG Brands Said Yes to Smart Checkout
Why 63 CPG Brands Said Yes to Smart Checkout
September 24, 2026  |  Retail

The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart...

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