Moldova’s e-commerce market is accelerating far faster than global averages in 2025, positioning the country for significant digital economic gains despite still being the least digitalized retail market in Europe.
Showroom.fm has launched a first-of-its-kind platform that finally makes the physical showroom visible to AI assistants, search engines, and consumers asking, “Where can I see this today?”
US shoppers are sending mixed signals this holiday season. Confidence in the economy is slipping, job-market worries are rising, and retail sales data looks softer than expected. Yet tens of millions of Americans are still gearing up for one of the biggest spending weekends of the year. For retailers, this tension between caution and continued […]
Agentic AI commerce is moving from concept to infrastructure. Over the last few days, four separate announcements show how payments, market intelligence, platform tooling, and compute capacity are being aligned to let AI agents discover, decide, and pay on behalf of people.
AI shopping agents are officially becoming a thing. Big payment providers are building the infrastructure to let digital agents handle your purchases, compare prices, and even snag the best deals, without you lifting a finger. While it all sounds extremely exciting, here’s a bummer – most people aren’t exactly lining up to hand over the […]
Small and medium-sized businesses across the UK now have a new way to manage payments and operations, as Worldline has launched its Android SmartPOS, an Android-based payment platform designed to go beyond traditional card terminals.
KuCoin, the global crypto heavyweight, is making waves in Brazil, as its payments arm, KuCoin Pay, has officially integrated with Pix, the country’s lightning-fast instant payments system. This move allows millions of Brazilian users to pay merchants both online and in physical stores using over 50 different cryptocurrencies by simply scanning a Pix QR code.
EMVCo, the global technical body behind the standards used to make billions of card-payments safe and consistent, announced that it is actively working on ways its specifications can better support the rise of so-called agentic payments, where AI agents act on a shopper’s behalf.
Ecommpay announces the integration of Apple Pay via QR code as part of its global merchant payment suite. With this feature, shoppers can pay with Apple Pay even if they are not browsing from an Apple device.
Financial services innovator Airwallex has become a Principal Member of the EPI Company (European Payments Initiative), bringing merchants on its platform access to Wero, the pan-European account-to-account (A2A) digital wallet, as a payment method across Europe.
New JCB data on rapidly rising cross-border spending reveal the growing popularity of European locations among Asian tourists, while APAC consumers also increase their payment volumes at EU online stores.
Rather than exposing the full OpenAI ChatGPT interface, PhonePe will embed AI-powered tools tailored to payment-use cases in its consumer and business apps, so that users can ask for help with travel planning, product recommendations, or comparison before making UPI payments.
Credolab and ZOLOZ have announced a new partnership aimed at strengthening digital identity verification and fraud prevention for financial institutions and fintech platforms with the help of AI and behavioral analytics.
Electronic Merchant Systems (EMS) has rebranded as Kurv, reflecting its transformation and focus on delivering faster, more flexible payment solutions for small businesses.
Spreedly, the US-based payments orchestration platform, is deepening its reach in Latin America by enabling e-commerce merchants worldwide to tap into Brazil booming digital economy through Pix, the country’s instant payments system that has redefined online commerce, now supporting Brazil’s payment innovations, Pix Automático and NuPay, through a partnership with Latin-American fintech player EBANX.
For the first time, millions of Block merchants worldwide can turn Bitcoin from a niche digital asset for chosen traders into a mainstream payment option, signaling a potential shift in how consumers and businesses transact.
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