USDC merchant adoption in the United States is shifting from isolated pilot programs to infrastructure-level integration. Adoption remains early-stage compared with card payments, but the mechanics of accepting the stablecoin have changed substantially over the past year. Merchants no longer need to build separate crypto integrations. USDC is increasingly available as a native checkout option […]
USDC, the dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Circle, is built directly into Shopify Payments, Shopify’s built-in payment gateway, as a checkout option. Being a stablecoin, USDC value stays linked to the US dollar at all times, making it more reliable and predictable than most other cryptocurrencies. Here’s how the Shopify crypto payment feature works for merchants […]
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 […]
Checkout.com has been granted provisional in-principle approval for a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license from UAE’s Central Bank, marking another step in the rapid rise of the country as one of the largest payments markets in the world.
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 […]
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 […]
Apple and Amazon have put embedded finance back in the spotlight this week. While Apple is preparing to launch a new financing program for its devices, Amazon Business is renewing attention around its existing partnership with Affirm. Such a synchronization among Big Tech players underscore the growing role of installment payments as an integrated part […]
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.
Juspay has partnered with Recurly to integrate its open-source payment orchestration platform, Hyperswitch, into Recurly’s subscription management offering. The partnership gives Recurly merchants access to more than 300 payment service providers and acquirers through a single integration.
Pay by Bank is working. Fragmentation Proves It. By Todd Clyde, CEO of Token.io
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.
Every online store handles something a blog never does. A stranger types a card number into a form and trusts that it reaches the bank and nowhere else. That single transaction pulls the store into a security obligation most owners underestimate, and a large part of that obligation lives on the server the store rents. […]
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 […]
Global payments company Payfuture has launched a new integration with Shopify that enables merchants to accept popular local payment methods in India through a single connection. This system is aimed at streamlining payment processing in this growing market.
Merchants may be significantly underestimating the role of friendly fraud in the chargeback ecosystem, according to the newly released 2026 Chargeback Field Report from Chargebacks911. While merchants surveyed for the report estimated that friendly fraud accounts for an average of 43.8% of their chargebacks, Visa has previously estimated that approximately 75% of chargebacks are linked […]
Deutsche Bank is extending its partnership with Klarna to add new merchant acquiring services that will enable businesses to accept MB Way and Bizum, two of the largest local payment methods in Southern Europe (Portugal and Spain). With this expansion of their services via Klarna’s platform, merchants will now have access to both traditional local […]
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