Consumer artificial intelligence (AI) agents are getting the keys to inboxes, browsers and payment accounts. Meta’s Muse, launched Sept. 8, can send emails, fill out forms and pay at checkout through Stripe’s Link, PYMNTS reported. Three weeks later, OpenAI introduced “dots,” AI agents which run...
Watch more: Government Disbursements Need to Move at the Speed of Need For a household waiting on food assistance or disaster relief, a payment that is somewhere between the government and a bank account isn’t money that can buy groceries or pay for a hotel...
Money can move at 2 a.m. on Sunday. The systems needed to fund, convert, settle and account for that flow of funds may have another schedule. Three developments last week illustrate the timing variances. Seven U.K. banks completed the first live customer transactions using tokenized...
Ebanx has teamed with NetEase Games Club to expand payment access for Latin America’s video game community. “Latin America is one of the fastest-growing video game markets in the world, yet millions of its players have long faced barriers to purchasing content because of how...
October 06, 2026
The monthly, weekly or even annual bill is among the interactions a service provider is virtually guaranteed to have with a customer again and again. Yet consumers give the experience mediocre marks. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “The Service Commerce Performance Gap,” produced in collaboration with Paymentus and published in September, surveyed 2,566 consumers in the United States […]
October 01, 2026
Watch more: Government Disbursements Need to Move at the Speed of Need For a household waiting on food assistance or disaster relief, a payment that is somewhere between the government...
September 16, 2026
Money can trade in seconds, yet investors may still wait days to receive it. That gap can make a fast digital platform feel surprisingly slow at the exact moment a...
September 15, 2026
AI can find the sweater, compare prices and read hundreds of reviews before a shopper finishes a cup of coffee. Getting that sweater through checkout is where the trip gets...
September 28, 2026
Ebanx has teamed with NetEase Games Club to expand payment access for Latin America’s video game community. “Latin America is one of the fastest-growing video game markets in the world, yet millions of its players have long faced barriers to purchasing content because of how they pay,” the cross-border payments company said in a Monday […]
September 24, 2026
Ebanx is preparing to expand its payments operations into Pakistan while rolling out an in-house Apple Pay token-decryption system across Latin America and the Caribbean, as the payments company seeks...
September 16, 2026
For six years, India’s United Payments Interface (UPI) has been free for everyone involved, but that’s reportedly about to change. Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 16) that India is set to begin charging merchants...
September 09, 2026
Mastercard and Visa have joined a new World Bank initiative to promote digital payments in emerging markets. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group that concentrates on the private sector, announced the project...
