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India Launches AI-Powered UPI Commerce Payments on ChatGPT, Expanding Agentic Payments to Leading AI Platforms

With a new multilateral pilot AI payment project, ChatGPT users in India are now able to discover products and complete purchases using India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) directly within the ChatGPT experience. Gemini and Claude are next in line for agentic payment testing.

Fintech & Ecommerce

New One-Click Payment Feature, Flow Remember Me, Is Rolled Out by Checkout.com

Flow Remember Me by Checkout.com leverages the benefits of one-click payments to increase transaction acceptance rates.

Science & Technology

OpenAI Empowers Developers With New Tools and Scaling Infrastructure

A new AgentKit, open access to an AI coding assistant, ChatGPT Apps SDK, and a multibillion-dollar agreement with AMD – all these updates are illustrating OpenAI ongoing strategy to accelerate the adoption and impact of AI technologies and infrastructure across industries.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Nuvei Rolls Out AI Integration Agent to Accelerate Client Onboarding

Built on the Model Context Protocol, Nuvei AI Integration Agent cuts onboarding from weeks to hours, reduces setup errors, and helps teams go live faster with fewer manual steps.

Fintech & Ecommerce

PayOS and Mastercard Debut Agentic Payments with Live Transaction

PayOS and Mastercard reach another milestone in the development of agentic payments – their first live transaction with the use of an agentic token, cryptographic payment credential that is bound to a verified software agent, not a human cardholder.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Stripe and OpenAI Collaborate on Agentic Commerce Protocol to Streamline Payments in ChatGPT

Stripe and OpenAI joined efforts to launch an instant checkout feature in ChatGPT, introducing the Agentic Commerce Protocol.

News

WeLab and Google Collaborate for AI-Driven Digital Banking Services in Asia

WeLab and Google partner to potentially deliver AI-powered financial services to 500 million users by 2032.

News

Cloudflare to Launch NET Dollar Stablecoin for Agentic Payments

NET dollar digital currency will be specifically designed by Cloudflare to support the emerging AI-to-AI agent payment model which is actively promoted by fintech players worldwide.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Global Payments Revenue to Reach $2.4T by 2029

Although annual revenue growth is expected to slow from 8.8% to 4.0% within the next five years, global payments revenue is still forecast to increase to $2.4 trillion by 2029, as agentic AI, digital currencies, and fintech business models boost the growth.

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EvoluteIQ Secures €44M to Expand Agentic AI Architecture

EvoluteIQ describes itself as an end-to-end hyperautomation platform that brings together process orchestration, data and event processing, agentic and generative AI, ML, enterprise connectivity, and front-end application development.

News

Google to Propel AI Commerce With New Agent Payments Protocol

AI commerce is becoming more of a buzzword supported by Big Tech solutions like a new open protocol delivered by Google.

Articles

What Is Agentic Orchestration and How Can You Use It?

Most of the payment service providers are already actively using payment orchestration, or at least considering using this technology to enhance flexibility, routing intelligence, and global reach for merchants. What happens when AI agents come into play, and how agentic orchestration differs from payment orchestration? Let’s find out. 

News

Ant to Pilot Card-Based Agentic AI Payments

Ant Group’s global merchant payments powerhouse unit, Antom, has made a foray into agentic payments, enabling AI agents to initiate and complete transactions on users’ behalf.

News

Kite AI Bags $18M From PayPal, General Catalyst

Over two dozen prominent investors, including PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, 8VC, and Samsung Next, have placed their bets on an AI-driven startup, Kite AI, focused on agentic AI payment and e-commerce infrastructure.

Blockchain & Crypto

AI-Driven Fintech Infrastructure Startup Kira Raises $6.7M Seed Funding

Kira secured solid funding to build the underlying technology, helping businesses launch and scale financial products in emerging markets.

Science & Technology

ChatGPT Agent Rolls Out to Pro, Plus, and Team Users

OpenAI is giving its ChatGPT more autonomy with new agentic capabilities, reportedly also testing an embedded payment checkout system.

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.