Kinfos Events Launches Agentic Automation In Finance Summit Canada
North America’s 7th Edition Agentic Automation in Finance Summit Canada Launches in Toronto, Bringing Together Leaders Shaping the Future of AI-Powered Financial Services
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What Is an AI Payment Agent? How Agentic Commerce Works in 2026
An AI payment agent is software, usually built on a large language model, that can complete a purchase or transfer funds on a person’s or business’s behalf without a human clicking “buy” for each transaction. This is distinct from an AI shopping assistant, which searches, compares, and recommends products but hands the final checkout step […]
Microsoft Bets on AI to Stop Cyberattacks Before They Spread
Microsoft has announced a new generation of cybersecurity tools that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify vulnerabilities and tackle assaults with minimal human involvement, representing a major step into the world of autonomous cybersecurity.
Coinbase Brings AI Agent Payments to Businesses
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a shopping assistant into an economic participant. Coinbase has taken a significant step in that transition by enabling Coinbase Business users to accept payments directly from AI agents through the x402 protocol, one of the clearest commercial deployments yet of agentic payment infrastructure.
Is It Safe to Link Your Bank Account to an AI Shopping Agent?
Skillful AI shopping agents can now find a product, fill a cart, and pay for it without the user even opening a browser tab. Amazon, Google, and OpenAI have each shipped a version of this over the past year, though all three do not work the same way. The safety question therefore is not as […]
Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards
The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.
Amazon, OpenAI, and Natural Chase Different Cuts of Agentic Checkout
Autonomous checkout has moved from demo to disputed business model within a single year. Amazon’s Rufus-powered “Buy for Me” now completes purchases on external retailer sites on a shopper’s behalf. OpenAI tried a native 4% checkout fee inside ChatGPT and pulled it after six months. A new startup, Natural, has raised $30 million to build […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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.
