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.
Money20/20 Europe just celebrated its tenth anniversary on the continent with the conference of a great magnitude and visionary discussions on agentic AI, stablecoin payments and supporting infrastructure, growing integration of fintech services and the importance of compliance in a fast-moving regulatory landscape. Besides the theoretical conversations, the panel participants brought some actionable insights and […]
Artificial intelligence agents buying goods from other agents. The end of keyword search. Crypto replacing credit cards. These are not distant scenarios according to senior executives gathered at Rezolve Ai’s booth at ShopTalk Europe today, they are the near-term trajectory of retail and e-commerce.
This year’s Money20/20 Europe gathered around 7,400 attendees at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre for what proves to be an unusually announcement-heavy edition. Three themes run consistently across the conference stages: artificial intelligence moving from pilots into live payment infrastructure, stablecoins entering mainstream B2B settlement, and open banking’s long-anticipated shift toward recurring payments finally taking […]
Payment technology company Worldline and banking group ING said they have completed what the companies describe as Europe’s first live end-to-end agentic payment transaction in a production environment using the Mastercard network.
These top five AI developments illustrate how artificial intelligence is embedding itself across the financial technology landscape in 2026, be it hardware, banking infrastructure, or credit card payments.
Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory enable a new Agentic Cards API capability developed by Crossmint for agents in OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Zo Computer, and other agentic platforms to pay for things with supported Visa cards.
On May 26, Alipay, which is an Ant Group digital payments company, introduced two solutions at its AI Payment Ecosystem Conference in Hangzhou: AI Wallet and Token Pay.
Just as people, AI agents have much more possibilities to fulfil their potential if they have money to back their actions. Without the ability to transact, all the search and analysis agentic systems perform remain on theoretical level. To empower AI agents with more practical tasks, they need agentic payment mechanisms that are already emerging […]
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