The Ecommerce Forum returns to Hilton London Canary Wharf on 4th February 2027, bringing together senior ecommerce and digital leaders for a day of strategic networking, expert insight, and pre-arranged one-to-one meetings.
Blockchain will change retail in five ways
Fees and features reflect each provider’s public disclosures as of publication; confirm current terms directly with the provider before opening an account. Key Takeaways Etsy’s own 2025 annual report puts active sellers at 5.6 million, so the bank behind a shop rarely gets much scrutiny until tax season makes the gap obvious. Novo, Bluevine, Found, […]
For most of business history, selling to another country meant years of paperwork, banking relationships and legal setup before a single overseas sale could happen. Stripe’s latest move in Singapore is built around a bet that this is no longer true and the numbers behind it are striking.
AI shopping traffic is growing fast and bringing shoppers who are more inclined to buy something along.
After years of steering shoppers toward its own checkout apps, Walmart is opening the door to Apple Pay, Google Pay and every other tap-to-pay wallet, which says a lot about who really controls how we pay at the register.
When shoppers reach the final click, payment methods consumer trust is quietly overriding traditional brand loyalty in ways online sellers never anticipated.
Wondering what a PayPal account actually is and whether you need one? In short: it’s a digital wallet that lets you shop, invoice, and move money online without handing your card details to every website you visit. American online payment system PayPal is a way to shop on multiple websites or to send and receive […]
Alipay introduced China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform on August 17, 2026, at its AI Ecosystem Partner Conference in Hangzhou. The platform is designed to help merchants move from standard digital operations to AI-powered operations.
Knot, a merchant-connectivity platform that lets people move saved payment details between apps and websites, announced a partnership with Venmo on August 12. The deal lets Venmo users set the PayPal-associated platform as their default saved payment method at merchants they already shop with, without typing in card details each time.
Around 70% millennials continue to live paycheck to paycheck, according to new August 2026 research from PYMNTS Intelligence. The finding is spectacular and not simply because of the size of this generation group. A vigilant industry observer must notice that the same consumers are increasingly using instant payouts, buy now, pay later services and AI […]
Google’s latest update to Maps brings agentic food ordering into its Ask Maps experience. Toast and Square are among the first services supporting orders.
Retailers and payment providers still have some thinking time left until August 14, 2026. That’s the date when a new industry standard meant to make AI shopping agents accountable when something goes wrong is activated. After that date, the draft closes to comment and moves toward a stable release.
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 […]
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