Visa Maps a Path to Agentic Commerce That Feels Familiar
A digital assistant can already do a lot of the work that once belonged to people. It can search for products, compare suppliers, book travel and draft invoices in seconds. But the moment that assistant is allowed to complete a purchase, something fundamental...
Fraud Orchestration Strengthens Trust Across the Payment Flow
Fraud prevention is no longer a single tool or team; it’s a coordinated ecosystem. As digital transactions scale and fraud tactics evolve, fraud orchestration has emerged as the missing layer connecting risk signals, verification systems and payment gateways....
AI Agents Shift Power From Marketing to Metadata
Merchants have spent much of the eCommerce era obsessed over understanding a single buyer: the human at the other end of a screen, swayed by brand storytelling, emotional triggers, intuitive design, and social proof. But a second customer class has quickly and...
The Protocol Power Struggle Reshaping AI-Driven Commerce.
Changes in how consumers shop and pay never happen all at once. The transformation doesn’t make a grand entrance. Change happens when the friction that consumers and merchants tolerate becomes harder to live with than the habit of sticking to the old way. That...
Deck The Aisles With AI: Supporting Staff, Delighting Customers
Friendly shop assistant helping woman with shoppinggettyWith holiday underway, we are in what is traditionally the highest spending months of the year. Many retailers rely on these sales to meet annual revenue targets. According to Statista, holiday sales...
66% Cross-Border Shift to Digital Payments Pressures Merchants
Merchants chasing global growth are learning that cross-border sales succeed only when payments feel as local as possible. That is the new message emerging from the latest Payments Optimization Tracker, which shows that consumer expectations have shifted faster...
One end-to-end platform for consumer and commercial payments
Innovators consistently face a crucial challenge when engaging diverse audiences: pick the reliability and scale of legacy consumer engagement tools, or the breakthrough innovation needed for commercial payment solutions. Why not both?Organizations have been...
How AI And BNPL Are Rewriting Holiday Shopping
Christmas 2025 is set to be the most technologically advanced Christmas yetgettyBy the time peak holiday shopping deals land in inboxes this year, a lot of shoppers will already have a digital co-pilot. Some will be asking AI tools to shortlist gifts, while...
Black Friday vs Small Business Saturday
If tighter purse strings have you worried about holiday revenue, take heart. This year’s shopping season is shaping up to be big. According to a 2025 Intuit QuickBooks survey, consumers plan to spend 25% more this holiday season - an estimated $263...