In the early days of digital commerce, identity verification was a front-door exercise. It represented a necessary, but narrow, checkpoint designed to confirm that a customer was who they claimed to be. But findings in “Identity at Scale: Where KYC/KYB Touchpoints Create (or Contain) Agent...
The collapse of default trust on the internet is becoming operational, measurable, and increasingly expensive. Businesses have the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) to thank for that. But for mid-market and B2B firms that spent the last decade digitizing workflows, onboarding customers and building confidence...
Developments in The Prompt Economy over the past few weeks has been moving from retail and infrastructure issues to a focus on financial services. And that focus has resulted in new thinking and use cases for that sector as banks find a place for agentic...
Bots account for a vast majority of stablecoin transactions, recent Visa research shows. Fewer than 10% of these transactions come from genuine users, according to a new metric from Visa and Allium Labs, showing that just $149 billion of the $2.2 trillion in total transactions last month came from “organic...
April 24, 2026
In the early days of digital commerce, identity verification was a front-door exercise. It represented a necessary, but narrow, checkpoint designed to confirm that a customer was who they claimed to be. But findings in “Identity at Scale: Where KYC/KYB Touchpoints Create (or Contain) Agent Risk,” a new report from PYMNTS Intelligence and Trulioo, reveal how that model has […]
March 16, 2026
Developments in The Prompt Economy over the past few weeks has been moving from retail and infrastructure issues to a focus on financial services. And that focus has resulted in...
November 02, 2022
How much would you pay to be allowed to make a post on Twitter? That is a question that was raised, somewhat indirectly, by the chief strategy officer of the...
December 19, 2019
In business – and especially in financial services and banking – trust is built up over decades, and can be destroyed in an instant. And trust, as has been well-documented,...
May 20, 2026
Cybersecurity firm DataDome has launched “Priority Protect,” which it calls the first “virtual waiting room” built specifically for agentic commerce, according to a Wednesday (May 20) news release. The company said the platform is designed to manage surging traffic from both human shoppers and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered buying agents during high-demand events such as product […]
May 06, 2024
Bots account for a vast majority of stablecoin transactions, recent Visa research shows. Fewer than 10% of these transactions come from genuine users, according to a new metric from Visa and Allium Labs, showing that...
October 18, 2023
Would you pay $1 a year to use Twitter? The social media platform, now calling itself X, is hoping new users will say “yes” as it attempts to ferret out bots....
October 05, 2022
Fake LinkedIn executive profiles are creating an issue for the business networking site, a report from KrebsOnSecurity said. The fake identities, pairing AI-generated profile photos with text from legitimate accounts,...