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...
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...
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...
Adding a FinTech partner has become much easier than managing dozens of them over time. To that end, banks and credit unions have been relying on outside providers for everything from payments and digital onboarding to fraud prevention and data analytics. Partnerships remain central to...
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 […]
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...
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...
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...
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 in a machine-readable way, according to the article. OpenAI is […]
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...
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...
February 12, 2026
Truist launched its inaugural open banking integration, connecting first to Mastercard’s open finance technology, according to a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release. The platform is designed to give consumers and...
