Consumers Trust the Payment Method More Than the Retailer Reveals Fresh Report
When shoppers reach the final click, payment methods consumer trust is quietly overriding traditional brand loyalty in ways online sellers never anticipated.
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Klarna Stock Plunge Shows Investors Look Beyond Q2 Beat
Klarna delivered a stronger-than-expected second quarter, but investors focused on what comes next, which led to a counterintuitive stock decline.
Is “Main Bank” Still a Real Thing? ChilliMint Fintech Marketer San Nakra-Shah Says No
“Stop trying to be my main bank. Give me a reason to choose you,” says Santosh “San” Nakra-Shah, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ChilliMint Europe Limited. In this article, she explains why having a “main bank” today doesn’t mean quite the same thing it used to.
How to Get a PayPal Account and Start Using It
Wondering what a PayPal account actually is and whether you need one? In short: it’s a digital wallet that lets you shop, invoice, and move money online without handing your card details to every website you visit. American online payment system PayPal is a way to shop on multiple websites or to send and receive […]
Razorpay Launches Vulcan AI Foundation Model Built for India’s Payments Market
Razorpay has launched Vulcan, an artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model designed specifically for payments specifics of the Indian market. The company describes Vulcan as India’s first transformer-based AI foundation model for payments, beyond using separate AI tools for individual tasks such as fraud detection or payment routing.
Alipay Launches China’s First Full-Stack Agentic Commerce Platform For Merchants
Alipay introduced China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform on August 17, 2026, at its AI Ecosystem Partner Conference in Hangzhou. The platform is designed to help merchants move from standard digital operations to AI-powered operations.
29th Connected Banking Summit Ethiopia 2026 Brings Together Technology, Financial Markets and Fintech Innovators to Accelerate Digital Finance
Strategic collaboration between global technology organisations, financial-market institutions and emerging fintech innovators highlights Ethiopia’s evolving digital financial ecosystem
Acquisitions Consolidate AI and Payments: Inside Stripe & Anthropic Deals
Two major M&A deals this week show how deeply artificial intelligence (AI) and payments are becoming intertwined. Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, an innovative tech marketplace that lets people access hundreds of AI models through one gateway, for more than $7 billion. Meanwhile, Anthropic is in early talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli startup […]
Europe’s Digital Euro Push Reflects 2026 National Endeavours to Bypass Visa & Mastercard
Three different regions made their movements this month to reduce dependence on the two global companies that process most of the world’s card payments. On the surface, they may look unrelated, but together, a pattern emerges where governments and central banks build various types of alternative payment rails instead of relying on Visa and Mastercard.
Knot to Make Venmo a Saved Checkout Payment Method
Knot, a merchant-connectivity platform that lets people move saved payment details between apps and websites, announced a partnership with Venmo on August 12. The deal lets Venmo users set the PayPal-associated platform as their default saved payment method at merchants they already shop with, without typing in card details each time.
MVB Bank Uses AI to Scale AML and KYC Compliance
MVB Bank has entered a multi-year agreement with Bretton AI to use AI-supported operations for anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring and know-your-customer (KYC) compliance as its fintech business expands.
Toast and Google Put Agentic Ordering Into Live Payments Workflows
Google’s latest update to Maps brings agentic food ordering into its Ask Maps experience. Toast and Square are among the first services supporting orders.
Money20/20 USA
Money20/20 USA is the world’s greatest most influential gathering of the global money ecosystem including banks, payments, tech, startups, retail, fintech, financial services, policy, and more.
Revolut Gets French Banking Licence: What It Means for Users
Revolut has been granted a full banking licence in France, the second largest market in Europe. The decision arrived upon a joint review by the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), France’s banking regulator, and the European Central Bank (ECB), which formally approved it through its Governing Council.
Agentic Checkout Trust Standard Enters Final Comment Window Before August 14 Deadline
Retailers and payment providers still have some thinking time left until August 14, 2026. That’s the date when a new industry standard meant to make AI shopping agents accountable when something goes wrong is activated. After that date, the draft closes to comment and moves toward a stable release.
Klarna Goes Live On J.P. Morgan Payments Commerce Platform
Klarna, the Swedish digital bank known for its “buy now, pay later” checkout tools, has switched on its first integration with J.P. Morgan Payments in the United States. The update enables any merchant already using J.P. Morgan Payments’ Commerce Platform to offer Klarna’s payment options at checkout without building or coding anything new.
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