What if charging customers a little extra at checkout didn’t send them running for the exit? New research on the topic of credit card surcharge small business strategy suggests that the long-held fear may not match reality. The numbers behind it are worth a closer look before any merchant decides how to price a transaction […]
When shoppers reach the final click, payment methods consumer trust is quietly overriding traditional brand loyalty in ways online sellers never anticipated.
Klarna delivered a stronger-than-expected second quarter, but investors focused on what comes next, which led to a counterintuitive stock decline.
“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.
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 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 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.
Strategic collaboration between global technology organisations, financial-market institutions and emerging fintech innovators highlights Ethiopia’s evolving digital financial ecosystem
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 […]
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, 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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