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 […]
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 has completed a live agentic-commerce proof of concept with Visa, merchant technology provider Arvato Systems, and fashion brand Kings and Priests.
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 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 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 […]
Paystack has launched an experimental product that lets AI chatbots pay for things on user behalf — the latest sign that Africa’s fintech giants are also racing to figure out what happens when agents, not apps, become the checkout counter.
Worldline says it’s now the first payment provider in Europe to bring Click to Pay into recurring billing — meaning one-click checkout no longer ends after the first purchase, but carries through the life of a subscription. The company announced the move today, but it will roll out on Global Collect, Worldline’s cross-border payments platform, […]
Shoptalk Europe 2026 unveiled five major predictions for the next decade of European retail at its Barcelona event, outlining how AI shopping agents, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, the recommerce economy, personalised physical stores, and AI-driven supply chain transformation will reshape retail by 2036.
Stablecoins are rapidly moving beyond their origins in the cryptocurrency sector and becoming a core component of modern financial infrastructure. With global stablecoin transaction volumes now reaching trillions of dollars annually, businesses, freelancers, remote workers, and consumers are increasingly using digital dollars for cross-border payments, settlements, savings, and global commerce. At the same time, regulators […]
Airwallex has recently named its in-app AI assistant Kai, following months of its expanded functionality inside the Airwallex WebApp. Yet, renaming does not eliminate structural inefficiencies this support method has, according to public reviews.
Dutch payments technology company Adyen has unveiled Adyen Agentic, a new suite of APIs designed to help enterprise merchants sell through conversational AI platforms without having to rebuild their commerce infrastructure for every emerging channel.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming part of everyday life, but its expansion comes with a growing challenge: energy consumption. Training and running advanced AI models requires vast computing resources, and the data centres powering these systems are consuming increasing amounts of electricity worldwide. Against this backdrop, Chinese technology giant Ant Group is attempting to […]
AI commerce company Rezolve Ai has released shopper behaviour data indicating that purchase patterns in e-commerce are shifting.
Visa has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to integrate its global payment network into OpenAI’s products and platforms, positioning the two companies as early infrastructure partners in the emerging agentic commerce space. The announcement was made at the Visa Payments Forum in San Francisco on 10 June 2026.
Nearly half of consumers surveyed across four major Western markets would choose a free, advertising-influenced AI shopping assistant over paying for fully impartial recommendations, according to new research from payments consultancy PSE Consulting.
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