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What Is Agentic AI in Banking? How It Works and Where It’s Already Live
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What Is Agentic AI in Banking? How It Works and Where It’s Already Live

Artificial intelligence has supported banking operations for years. It has found many applications in fraud detection, credit scoring, risk modelling, and customer service automation. In 2026, however, industry discussions have increasingly focused on agentic AI — a new category of proactive AI systems designed to plan, coordinate, and execute multi-step tasks instead of simply generate […]

World AI Show Concludes Landmark Indonesia Edition, Announces Next Chapter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this September
Science & Technology

World AI Show Concludes Landmark Indonesia Edition, Announces Next Chapter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this September

World AI Show Indonesia wraps up with high-stakes ministerial dialogues, enterprise blueprints, and precision networking as Trescon names Kuala Lumpur the next stop for its global series, scheduled for 9–10 September 2026.

PSE Consulting: 89% Still Trust Seller Brand Over AI Picks
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PSE Consulting: 89% Still Trust Seller Brand Over AI Picks

Merchants’ fear of AI shopping agents is just a ‘hallucination’, four-wave international study finds. Based on responses from 4,250 consumers across the UK, US, France and Germany, the research explores the emerging ‘shortlist economy’ and how AI is reshaping the path to purchase.

Glia Launches Three AI Response Modes For Banking Amid Industry Security Scrutiny
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Glia Launches Three AI Response Modes For Banking Amid Industry Security Scrutiny

Glia’s July 21 launch of three configurable AI response modes for Glia Banker has taken on added context following a security incident disclosed this week by OpenAI and Hugging Face.

Rezolve Ai Brings Agentic Commerce to Zilch’s 6 Million Customers
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Rezolve Ai Brings Agentic Commerce to Zilch’s 6 Million Customers

Rezolve Ai announced a partnership with UK fintech Zilch on July 21, 2026, to bring personalized retailer offers directly into the Zilch payments app used by nearly 6 million customers.

SBC Summit 2026 to Spotlight AI and Fintech Innovation Across Payments, Security and Player Experience
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SBC Summit 2026 to Spotlight AI and Fintech Innovation Across Payments, Security and Player Experience

As artificial intelligence and fintech continue to reshape the global gaming industry, SBC Summit 2026 is introducing two dedicated educational programmes designed to help operators, suppliers and technology leaders navigate the next phase of digital transformation. Taking place from 29 September to 1 October 2026 at Feira Internacional de Lisboa & MEO Arena in Lisbon, […]

StepFun and Alipay Expand AI Agent Capabilities Through New System-Level Partnership
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StepFun and Alipay Expand AI Agent Capabilities Through New System-Level Partnership

Foundation model developer StepFun and Alipay have announced a system-level partnership aimed at bringing AI agents beyond conversational assistance and into everyday consumer services. The collaboration was unveiled on July 17 during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 in Shanghai.

Sunrate And Mastercard Release White Paper Defining Agentic Global Payments
Fintech & Ecommerce

Sunrate And Mastercard Release White Paper Defining Agentic Global Payments

Sunrate and Mastercard have released a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.

Peach Payments CISO: Agentic Commerce Needs Controls to Match $5 Trillion Opportunity
Fintech & Ecommerce

Peach Payments CISO: Agentic Commerce Needs Controls to Match $5 Trillion Opportunity

Payment security has spent two decades treating automated traffic as a threat to be filtered out. Agentic commerce is reversing that logic. Visa has enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme, Mastercard has launched Agent Pay, and OpenAI has integrated Instant Checkout with Stripe. In March 2026, Mastercard and Google open-sourced a protocol called […]

AI News Digest: Central Banks, Data Centers & Frontier Models
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AI News Digest: Central Banks, Data Centers & Frontier Models

Artificial intelligence (AI) dominates the news agenda this week. Financial regulators warn that agentic AI is moving faster than rulemaking, the UK’s FCA ties the technology’s future to tokenized money, a skilled-labor shortage emerges as a bottleneck for the data centers powering AI systems, and SpaceXAI launches a new model aimed at capturing finance and […]

Swiss Fintech Week and Point Zero Forum 2026 Recap
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Swiss Fintech Week and Point Zero Forum 2026 Recap

This year, PaySpace Magazine Global team had a chance to visit Point Zero Forum, which ran alongside Swiss Fintech Week 2026, held in Zurich from June 19 to June 25. The two parallel events covered AI adoption in banking, agentic commerce, and the infrastructure for programmable money. As those topics are among the most-discussed within […]

Alipay Widens AI Agent Access to 30 Million Tap! Devices
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Alipay Widens AI Agent Access to 30 Million Tap! Devices

Hangzhou-based Alipay has integrated an AI agent into its Tap! payment devices, extending AI-powered services to the millions of offline merchants that use the hardware. The company describes the update as the basis for the world’s first large-scale AI-powered offline business operations network.

Nuvei Completes In-Agent Payment Proof Of Concept With Visa, Multiple European Issuers
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Nuvei Completes In-Agent Payment Proof Of Concept With Visa, Multiple European Issuers

Nuvei has completed a live agentic-commerce proof of concept with Visa, merchant technology provider Arvato Systems, and fashion brand Kings and Priests.

Worldline, ING And Visa Complete Live Agentic Payment Transaction In Germany
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Worldline, ING And Visa Complete Live Agentic Payment Transaction In Germany

Worldline and ING have completed a live, end-to-end agentic payment transaction with Visa in Germany. The transaction used Visa Payment Passkeys and biometric authentication within existing Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements. Worldline and ING have joined Visa’s Agentic Ready Programme as part of the announcement.

Consumers Prefer Independent Shopping Assistants, Challenging Retail Embedded AI Tools Push
Fintech & Ecommerce

Consumers Prefer Independent Shopping Assistants, Challenging Retail Embedded AI Tools Push

Consumers favour independent AI shopping assistants over AI tools embedded within retail, travel and delivery platforms for product discovery, but continue to rely on marketplaces to complete transactions, according to new international research from PSE Consulting.

Airwallex Launches Consumer Airi Wallet, Eyes Agentic Payments Future
Fintech & Ecommerce

Airwallex Launches Consumer Airi Wallet, Eyes Agentic Payments Future

Airwallex has launched Airi, a new digital wallet that helps simplify one-click purchasing by securely saving your credit card info and allowing users to make purchases in under 10 seconds. Although Airi is not currently agent–based, it is part of Airwallex’s broader strategy to build towards a future where payments are largely made by software […]

An AI agent in payments and fintech is a software program that can act on behalf of a person or business to handle financial tasks automatically. These digital AI tools can make decisions and carry out financial transactions for you quickly, securely, and without constant human input, given they are supported by next-gen payment systems.