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Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel

Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
Spreedly Sees Good Bots Becoming an Agentic Commerce Channel
September 02, 2026  |  eCommerce

Watch more: Digital Shift With Spreedly’s Adam Hiatt Bots are bad. That, at least, has been digital commerce’s operating assumption since the category’s inception. Automated...

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56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
56% of Consumers Have Faced a False Payment Decline
September 02, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Merchants may have more revenue to gain from approving good customers than from tightening fraud controls another turn. That opportunity runs through “The Performance Gap:...

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CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More
September 02, 2026  |  Back-office

The competitive advantage today isn’t forecasting tomorrow’s cash more accurately. It’s having less of today’s cash left to forecast. Data in the August 2026 edition...

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How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
How 23% of Merchants Captured Retail’s Next Agentic Commerce Advantage
September 02, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence agents are poised to influence discovery, payment choice and transactions. But only 23% of merchants can clearly identify both AI-driven traffic and purchases...

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Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
Embedded Payments Emerge as a FinTech M&A Target
September 01, 2026  |  Fintech Investments

FinTech buyers looking for growth in a tough funding and software market are finding something valuable inside real estate closings, municipal bills, healthcare practices and...

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How 21 Banks Changed the Conversation Around Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
How 21 Banks Changed the Conversation Around Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
September 01, 2026  |  Cryptocurrency

Stablecoins and tokenized deposits can look deceptively similar from the perspective of a corporate user. Both can represent dollars digitally. Both can potentially settle around...

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Synchrony’s Small Business Partners Target the Cost of a Missed Yes
Synchrony’s Small Business Partners Target the Cost of a Missed Yes
September 01, 2026  |  Alternative Credit

Watch more: Need to Know With Anita Chalkley of Synchrony and Chris Taylor of Discount Tire Service Centers  A customer who walks out of a...

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Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action
Petwealth Uses AI to Turn Pet Lab Results Into Action
September 01, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s...

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