Mobile Commerce

The artificial-intelligence boom in payments is rushing on, with two major players going further along the AI commerce road. Mastercard Inc., having announced Mastercard Agent Pay earlier this year, has launched its Agent Pay Acceptance Framework. This service begins with registering and verifying AI agents before they are allowed to …

E-commerce specialist Global-e said Shop Pay’s one-click checkout is now available for its merchants using the Shopify platform. C-store chain Circle K has partnered with Car IQ, a vehicle-based payments platform, to launch Circle K Pro Digital +, a U.S.-based payments service for fuel, tolls, and other vehicle-related payments. Payroc announced it has enabled …

Visa Inc. entered the agentic-commerce fray early Tuesday with the launch of Trusted Agent, a protocol developed in collaboration with cloud-computing connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. The protocol is part of an overall strategy to make agent-initiated transactions as seamless and secure “as any consumer-initiated transaction today,” the card network tells …

Nacha members have approved five rule changes meant to boost the use and efficiency of international automated clearing house transactions. International ACH transactions totaled $270.96 billion in value in 2024 on 120.99 million payments, Nacha says. Announced Tuesday, the changes address clearing up what is an international automated clearing house …

Mastercard Inc. unveiled Merchant Cloud, a payments platform aimed at easing the way for businesses to conduct commerce globally while entering new markets and adopting new end-user technologies. Block Inc. said it will work with food-delivery service Grubhub to overhaul restaurants’ ordering systems by integrating with Square’s point-of-sale platform and adding Cash …

Verifone Inc. early Monday launched Commander Fleet, a payment and site-management system that enables fuel and convenience retailers to accept WEX and other leading commercial fleet cards through a single POS integration. The system is expected to roll out across North America. Providing fuel and convenience retailers with a single …

Adyen NV and Worldpay are among processors that have signed up to participate in a new platform from Mastercard Inc. aimed at boosting approval rates for card transactions. Announced Monday, the Payment Optimization Platform seeks to boost approval rates using AI engines trained on transaction data, the card network said …

Klarna Group plc said it will support the AI-based Agent Payments Protocol from Google Inc. The technology allows shopping agents to find and buy products according to criteria set by consumers. Xplor Pay announced a partnership with Gatemaster Technology, a point-of-sale and ticketing software provider, that sees Gatemaster customers gain access to …

Cryptocurrency picked up more momentum in payments Thursday as C1 Fund Inc. bought shares in Ripple Inc. C1, which focuses on digital assets and blockchain technology, did not announce the extent of the investment or other financial terms. Ripple is well-known in payments for its XRP ledger, a decentralized blockchain …

Identity-verification platform provider Proof.com has launched Certify, a product intended to combat falsification of signatures created through the use of artificial intelligence. With Certify, users can cryptographically authorize a digital signature on any type of content, such as wire instructions, tax returns, and legal agreements, using a verified legal identity.  …