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Businesses face “one of the biggest shifts in retail shopping in decades” as consumers increase use of AI in shopping and payments

More than one in ten online shoppers are expected to routinely use AI agents to purchase products on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report, A Short History of the Future of Shopping and Payments.1 The report draws on Mastercard research and the perspectives of four world-leading futurists from the US, Europe and Asia. It explores how a fundamental shift in shopping habits…

Artificial Intelligence · SEP 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Mambu launches Intelligent Core, connecting AI to core banking

Mambu, the founder of composable banking, trusted by financial institutions worldwide, today announced the launch of Intelligent Core, its strategic vision and technology architecture for bringing core banking, payments and agentic AI together through one open, composable platform. AI is fundamentally changing how quickly competitive advantage is won and lost in financial services, but most banks…

Artificial Intelligence · SEP 2, 2026 · 3 min read

Microsoft and HUMAIN Expand Strategic Collaboration at LEAP 2026 with New Enterprise AI Offering and AI PC

Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration at LEAP 2026, introducing new offerings spanning enterprise AI applications and AI-enabled devices. As part of the expanded partnership, HUMAIN and Microsoft intend to offer HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and…

Artificial Intelligence · AUG 31, 2026 · 4 min read

Payouts.com and Casper Association Partner on AI Agent Payments

Payouts.com, the financial operating system for humans and AI agents, and the Casper Association, the Swiss non-profit stewarding the Casper Network blockchain, today announced a partnership to bring x402 agent payments into production. Payouts.com will support Casper Network, the first WebAssembly-native Layer 1 running x402 on mainnet, as a settlement rail for its AgentWallet and Digital Employees platform. Since Payouts.com already supports x402 natively, the…

Artificial Intelligence · AUG 25, 2026 · 2 min read

First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real-world operating business

First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering (“STO”) for an established U.S. operating business. This offering deploys blockchain-powered securities infrastructure for international capital formation and marks a structural turning point in the modernisation of global…

Artificial Intelligence · JUN 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Infosys Collaborates with Valmet to Reimagine IT Operations with AI Accelerated Transformation

Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, today announced a strategic, long-term collaboration with Valmet, a global technology leader in serving process industries. As a part of this engagement, Infosys will modernize Valmet’s core IT services and deliver end-to-end IT transformation to enhance operational efficiency and enable…

Artificial Intelligence · JUN 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Consumer demand for AI shopping is forming fast but trust for agentic commerce is still catching up

New research from Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, has found a growing gap between emerging consumer demand and the trust, control and infrastructure needed to support agentic commerce*. This is according to Checkout.com’s new report, Agentic Commerce 2026: The State of Consumer Demand and Merchant Readiness. A third of consumers (33%) expect at…

FinTech · JUN 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Worldline and ING complete a live end-to-end European agentic payment in production

At Money 20/20 Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, and ING, a global financial institution with a strong European base, announce the successful execution of Europe’s first end-to-end agentic payment transaction in production with Mastercard. Completed between an ING cardholder and a merchant in the Netherlands, the solution operates on the same…

Artificial Intelligence · JUN 2, 2026 · 3 min read

AI chatbots in banking apps resolve blocked payments only 11.4% of the time

DECTA today released a consumer study on two back-to-back AI failures in UK banking and payment apps: the moment an app blocks a transaction, and the moment its chatbot fails to fix the resulting problem. The study draws on a 1,506-respondent UK consumer survey and 159,600 app store reviews across the 10 most-used banking and payment…

Artificial Intelligence · JUN 2, 2026 · 3 min read

Why companies must move from AI usage to AI upskilling

By Niv Liran, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Unzer Artificial intelligence is quickly shifting from testing phases to daily use and from chatbots to agentic work. In the past two years alone, tools that were once used mainly by data scientists and engineers have become available to employees throughout companies. Generative AI, in particular,…

Insights · APR 22, 2026 · 8 min read

Innovating Finance Together Summit highlights the power of collaboration in a fast-changing financial landscape

Finastra’s inauguralInnovating Finance Together Summit, held in London, brought together more than 200 financial services professionals to discuss the trends reshaping lending, trade and payments. The event highlighted how modernization, co-creation and AI are moving from concept to real-world impact, helping financial institutions operate more efficiently and deliver better client outcomes. Opening the summit, Chris Walters,…

FinTech · APR 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Finastra and Marketnode transform credit agreement onboarding through AI

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced a strategic partnership with Marketnode to digitize and automate the credit agreement onboarding process for corporate lenders. The collaboration brings together Marketnode’s LLM/AI‑powered intelligent document automation and Finastra’s Loan IQ platform through the Loan IQ Nexus Build module. It enables FIs to digitize the credit agreement onboarding…

Artificial Intelligence · APR 8, 2026 · 2 min read