Finsei Brings Payment Acquiring In-House For Business Clients
Businesses can now accept Visa and Mastercard payments through the same account they use for transfers and cards
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Anthropic Launches Agentic Commerce Blueprint With Visa & Mastercard On Board
What happens when the company behind one of the world’s most talked-about AI chatbots decides to help retailers build their own shopping assistants? Furthermore, two of the biggest names in payments help it spread agentic commerce awareness.
TOP World’s Most Prestigious Credit Cards
If you are living the high life with millions of dollars in your account balance, you’ve got an exclusive opportunity to become the owner of one of the world’s most exclusive credit cards.
Rain’s Hidden Stablecoin Network Moves Towards Agentic Commerce
Stablecoins — digital tokens pegged to the US dollar, are supposed to be the future of payments. It turns out, for one crypto infrastructure company, that future is already here, and most merchants have no idea it’s happening under their noses.
Surcharging May Not Cost Small Businesses the Sale, Kurv Data Shows
What if charging customers a little extra at checkout didn’t send them running for the exit? New research on the topic of credit card surcharge small business strategy suggests that the long-held fear may not match reality. The numbers behind it are worth a closer look before any merchant decides how to price a transaction […]
Europe’s Digital Euro Push Reflects 2026 National Endeavours to Bypass Visa & Mastercard
Three different regions made their movements this month to reduce dependence on the two global companies that process most of the world’s card payments. On the surface, they may look unrelated, but together, a pattern emerges where governments and central banks build various types of alternative payment rails instead of relying on Visa and Mastercard.
Card Networks to Begin Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration On Payment Rails Through 2030
Although Visa, Mastercard, SWIFT, and other payment infrastructure providers have not announced firm migration deadlines, governments are beginning to establish them. The U.S. federal government’s goal of transitioning critical cryptographic systems by around 2030 is widely viewed as an important benchmark that could influence planning across the broader financial services ecosystem, including payment networks, PSPs, […]
What Is an AI Payment Agent? How Agentic Commerce Works in 2026
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 […]
Agentic Payments Protocol Battle Intensifies: Visa, Mastercard, x402, UnionPay Fight for AI Money Standards
The race to build the payment infrastructure of the AI-agent economy is entering a new phase, with global payment networks and technology companies competing to define how machines will identify, authorize and execute transactions.
Sunrate And Mastercard Release White Paper Defining Agentic Global Payments
Sunrate and Mastercard have released a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai.
Worldline & ING Complete First European Agentic Payment Transaction In Production
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.
Juspay Accelerates Global Click to Pay Expansion With Mastercard Engage
After the successful Brazil deployment, Juspay is rolling out Click to Pay functionality globally due to the Mastercard Engage partner program.
Agentic Payments 2026: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Commerce and Payment Infrastructure
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 […]
Mastercard and Rabobank Conduct First AI Agent Payment in the Netherlands
Mastercard and Rabobank have completed the first payment in the Netherlands initiated and executed by an AI agent.
Payment Sovereignty Debate Accelerates: What CB Payments Network in France Has to Say Against Visa and Mastercard
In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.
Beyond by RS2 Joins Hakisa in Boosting Digital Expense Management for Social and Public Entities
Social institutions, welfare organisations and municipalities will benefit from a collaboration between Hakisa and Beyond by RS2, launching integrated digital card-based expense management solution today.
