The top brass at American Express Co. indicated early Thursday it’s been spending a good deal of time thinking about the implications of AI and agentic commerce, the shop-and-spend utility enabled by AI. Overall, the company’s conclusion is the technology will spur a boom not only for AmEx but for …

AI seems to be everywhere these days, and now it’s penetrating the cannabis business as POSaBIT Systems Corp., known for its point-of-sale technology for dispensaries, moves into software for cannabis producers. And, in another point-of-sale development, New York City-based POS tech producer Vibe Retail announced a partnership with the ISO …

Pay-by-bank received a substantial endorsement early Tuesday with the news that the grocery giant Ahold Delhaize USA has gone deeper into a partnership with the payments processor Fiserv Inc. to offer the payment alternative on Ahold’s proprietary platform. The company is a unit of the Netherlands-based grocer of the same …

As cryptocurrencies edge ever closer to the payments mainstream, they are fitting themselves into day-to-day usage in a bid to win user loyalty. One such application is money transfers, a market that has now attracted the world’s second largest crypto exchange by volume. The Bybit exchange, based since 2022 in …

Firms looking to bring stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies into the payments mainstream are working a variety of angles, as illustrated by news on multiple fronts that emerged early Tuesday. Convera USA LLC, a business-to-business payments platform and provider of foreign-exchange services, announced it will work with Ripple Labs Inc. to …