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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
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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
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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 […]

Paystack Now Lets ChatGPT and Claude Paying Your Bills in Nigeria
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Paystack Now Lets ChatGPT and Claude Paying Your Bills in Nigeria

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 Extends Click to Pay to Subscriptions, Three Weeks After Its Agentic Payments Pilot
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Worldline Extends Click to Pay to Subscriptions, Three Weeks After Its Agentic Payments Pilot

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 Predictions: AI Agents, GLP-1 Drugs, Recommerce and the Future of European Retail
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Shoptalk Europe 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, GLP-1 Drugs, Recommerce and the Future of European Retail

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.

Stablecoin Future Depends on What Users Need Next: Interview With KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy
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Stablecoin Future Depends on What Users Need Next: Interview With KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy

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’s Kai Resolves 88% Of Queries, But Users Report Duplicate Tickets And Slow Email Follow-Up
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Airwallex’s Kai Resolves 88% Of Queries, But Users Report Duplicate Tickets And Slow Email Follow-Up

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.

Adyen Launches Agentic API Suite to Help Merchants Sell Through AI-Powered Shopping Channels
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Adyen Launches Agentic API Suite to Help Merchants Sell Through AI-Powered Shopping Channels

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.

Ant Group Bets on AI Growth While Cutting Its Carbon Footprint
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Ant Group Bets on AI Growth While Cutting Its Carbon Footprint

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 […]

Rezolve Ai Data Shows 70% of Online Purchases Now Follow a Single Search
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Rezolve Ai Data Shows 70% of Online Purchases Now Follow a Single Search

AI commerce company Rezolve Ai has released shopper behaviour data indicating that purchase patterns in e-commerce are shifting.

Visa Partners With OpenAI to Embed Payment Infrastructure Across Agentic Commerce
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Visa Partners With OpenAI to Embed Payment Infrastructure Across Agentic Commerce

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.

PSE Consulting: 43% of Consumers Accept Ad-Influenced AI Shopping Tools Over Paid Alternatives
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PSE Consulting: 43% of Consumers Accept Ad-Influenced AI Shopping Tools Over Paid Alternatives

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 2026 Wrap Up: Key Agentic AI, Stablecoins & Fintech Announcements
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Money20/20 Europe 2026 Wrap Up: Key Agentic AI, Stablecoins & Fintech Announcements

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 […]

Industry Leaders at ShopTalk Europe See Agentic Commerce as Retail’s Biggest Shift in 30 Years
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Industry Leaders at ShopTalk Europe See Agentic Commerce as Retail’s Biggest Shift in 30 Years

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.

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.