Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what a consumer wants, yet arrives without many of the signals merchants have learned to trust....
Identity and risk intelligence infrastructure provider Socure is now a $5.2 billion company. The firm reached that valuation Thursday (Aug. 27) following a new $156 million round of funding led by Summit Partners, which allowed Socure to acquire Fravity, an agentic platform aimed at automating...
Checkr has expanded its verification platform by acquiring Truv, a provider of consumer-permissioned income, employment and asset verification, Checkr said in a Tuesday (Aug. 18) press release emailed to PYMNTS. The acquisition builds on Checkr’s expansion of its offerings over the last year to include...
Okta plans to add identity threat detection and response capabilities to its identity management platform by acquiring Permiso Security. The acquisition will add Permiso’s identity risk signals, behavioral analytics and threat detections to Okta’s platform, Okta said in a Thursday (July 30) press release. The...
October 06, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what a consumer wants, yet arrives without many of the signals merchants have learned to trust. Pavan HS, senior director of product, agentic commerce at Visa, […]
June 29, 2026
A business deploys an artificial intelligence agent to manage procurement. The agent queries suppliers, compares prices, issues purchase orders, and routes payments. The supplier on the other end has no...
May 29, 2026
Fraud losses and payment failures are getting harder to recover after settlement and middle market firms are responding by moving verification and identity checks earlier in the customer relationship —...
May 22, 2026
Agentic artificial intelligence may soon test the weakest point in a company’s identity system, but PYMNTS Intelligence data suggest the strongest defense may be a wider, better-connected verification network. That...
October 07, 2026
Revolut’s CEO for Western Europe, Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier, said the company will pay the cost of new identity documents for customers impacted by the data breach Revolut disclosed in September, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 7). During an interview with BFM TV, Cossa-Dumurgier said, per the report: “If they ever have to change their ID documents, we’re […]
August 27, 2026
Identity and risk intelligence infrastructure provider Socure is now a $5.2 billion company. The firm reached that valuation Thursday (Aug. 27) following a new $156 million round of funding led...
August 18, 2026
Checkr has expanded its verification platform by acquiring Truv, a provider of consumer-permissioned income, employment and asset verification, Checkr said in a Tuesday (Aug. 18) press release emailed to PYMNTS....
July 30, 2026
Okta plans to add identity threat detection and response capabilities to its identity management platform by acquiring Permiso Security. The acquisition will add Permiso’s identity risk signals, behavioral analytics and...
