Competitive Strategies

Stripe Inc. continues its push to build an agentic commerce infrastructure late Thursday with the launch of its Agentic Commerce Suite. The new solution helps merchants use artificial intelligence-based agents to sell across multiple AI shopping platforms via a single integration to Stripe. In addition, Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite supports …

Differentiation is a key tactic in the payments world, and Aurora Payments and Clara Capital are the latest in merchant processing to stand out with new services. First, Tempe, Ariz.-based Aurora Payments is working with Germany-based 2S LimouSolution to integrate the Aurora Arise payment platform in 2S’s software. Launched in …

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals required that certain elements of an order that held Apple Inc. in contempt must be modified, but upheld most of the findings as well as an earlier injunction against Apple. The case stemmed from a 2020 lawsuit filed by Epic Games against Apple to challenge …

The promise and potential perils of agentic commerce as a digital technology are among the trends highlighted in Global Payments Inc.’s 2026 Commerce and Payments Trends Report. Beginning as a form of customer service based on its natural-language capabilities, artificial intelligence has begun to take off through the use of …

Cleverbridge Inc., a provider of merchant-of-record services for software companies, announced it will work with processor Adyen NV in an effort to ease growth for businesses looking to sell to customers globally. Pushpay Holdings Ltd., a payments and donation platform specializing in houses of worship, said it has launched artificial-intelligence …

SoundHound AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-based voice technology apps, unfolded its voice commerce strategy in the hotly competitive restaurant market with the introduction of an in-vehicle, artificial intelligence-based reservations agent. The reservation system, developed with restaurant-reservation platform OpenTable Inc., connects drivers to a network of more than 60,000 …

Yet more evidence of U.S. consumer reliance on mobile phones emerges as 45% of consumers prefer to pay their bills with a mobile device, up from 29% only last year. That finding from the InvoiceCloud 2026 Annual State of Online Payments Report also signals other big shifts in payment preferences. …

Fees paid by merchants to accept credit card and debit cards will dampen consumer spending power this holiday shopping season as sellers look for ways to offset the cost, says the Merchants Payment Coalition. Swipe fees are projected to cost merchants at least $19.9 billion this holiday shopping season, up …

With one agentic-commerce forecast calling for a total addressable market of $136 billion in 2025, it’s little wonder so many payments companies and merchants are tackling the emerging e-commerce option. One of the latest is Logicbroker Inc., a multivendor commerce platform that is partnering with PayPal Holdings Inc. to broaden …