Apis news and trends

OpenAI Rolls Out Text Watermarks to Meet EU AI Act Mandates
Artificial Intelligence // October 05, 2026

OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of text watermarking and detection technologies, the company said in an article released Monday (Oct. 5). OpenAI built the technologies in response to the European Union’s AI Act, which requires generative artificial intelligence providers to make AI-generated text identifiable...

AI Agents Become the API Economy’s Biggest New Customers
Artificial Intelligence // August 24, 2026

Every financial API was built for a human developer, a human analyst, or a human customer. A person queries the endpoint. A person reviews the response. A person decides what to do next. That assumption is no longer reliable. AI agents are now the fastest-growing...

Maverick Payments: Better Partner Tech Drives Merchant Growth
Payments Innovation // August 06, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Maverick Payments’ Jonathan Aguilar Merchant acquiring has a multiplication challenge. Payments companies want more merchants, but adding salespeople one at a time is a costly way to get them. That is pushing more attention toward one-to-many distribution models in...

APIs Now Decide Who Gets Served and How Fast
API // July 27, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Green Dot’s Akhil Gupta As financial services move deeper into software platforms, embedded commerce and enterprise workflows, application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer simply the plumbing connecting a bank to outside developers. They now determine how quickly a...

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Agents Become the API Economy’s Biggest New Customers

August 24, 2026
Every financial API was built for a human developer, a human analyst, or a human customer. A person queries the endpoint. A person reviews the response. A person decides what to do next. That assumption is no longer reliable. AI agents are now the fastest-growing class of API consumers, querying endpoints, processing responses and taking […]

Maverick Payments: Better Partner Tech Drives Merchant Growth

August 06, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Maverick Payments’ Jonathan Aguilar Merchant acquiring has a multiplication challenge. Payments companies want more merchants, but adding salespeople one at a time is a...

APIs Now Decide Who Gets Served and How Fast

July 27, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Green Dot’s Akhil Gupta As financial services move deeper into software platforms, embedded commerce and enterprise workflows, application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer...

Agentic Commerce Forces a Rethink of Card Infrastructure

April 27, 2026
AI is no longer just guiding purchases; it’s beginning to execute them. As agentic commerce, where AI systems initiate transactions on behalf of consumers, takes hold, the payments ecosystem is entering...

Quick Reads
TD Bank Taps Akoya to Power Secure Open Banking API Access

October 23, 2026
TD Bank U.S. and data network Akoya are collaborating to help financial apps and data providers connect to TD through secure APIs, the companies said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release. The companies will accomplish this by deploying Akoya’s Open Finance Solution (OFS), which includes API infrastructure and operational support for connecting financial institutions […]

OpenAI Rolls Out Text Watermarks to Meet EU AI Act Mandates

October 05, 2026
OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of text watermarking and detection technologies, the company said in an article released Monday (Oct. 5). OpenAI built the technologies in response to the...

Visa Scales Intelligent Authorization Tech to Europe

March 19, 2026
Visa has launched Visa Intelligent Authorisation (VIA) in Europe, less than two weeks after introducing this new capability on the Visa Acceptance Platform. VIA enables modern payment processing through a...

New Visa API Tool Updates Payment Infrastructure

March 09, 2026
The Visa Acceptance Platform now enables acquirers to modernize their payment processing through a single API. The capability comes from the newly launched Visa Intelligent Authorization, which is now available...