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Though still in the infant stages, agentic commerce is being readied for an expected maturation as a much-used shopping channel. Visa Inc. is taking steps to help with the release of its Agentic Commerce Benchmark. The tool, now available for anyone to use online, puts AI models through what Visa …
November, 2026
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5 November
Global Looks to Its Genius POS Platform for Near-Term Growth
Global Payments Inc.’s top management early Thursday reported broad plans for its crucial Genius point-of-sale system while outlining its near-term approach to such critical technologies as artificial intelligence and its close relative, agentic commerce. The Genius technology, launched in the spring of last year, has now grown into “the flagship …
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4 November
Small Business Sales up 2.3%, Strongest Gain Since July 2025, Fiserv Says
As a merchant-specific barometer of small-business sales activity, the Fiserv Small Business Index for October may finally be showing evidence of an upswing. In October, the index showed a 2.3% year-over-year increase among SMBs, the strongest growth since July 2025, Fiserv says. From September to October, sales were up 0.3%, …
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4 November
Circle Looks to Multiple Fronts for Stablecoin Expansion
Circle Internet Group Inc. early Wednesday offered indications that digital money—specifically, stablecoins—is now moving steadily into mainstream finance. With partner companies, “we’re building the financial and economic infrastructure for the Internet, and upgrading the system for a world where people, businesses, and AI agents all transact onchain,” noted cofounder and …
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4 November
Verifone’s Real Time Fraud Check and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 11/4/26
Verifone announced it has enabled Featurespace across its gateways. The technology, offered by Visa, checks individual payments for fraud in real time. Verifone’s service assesses more than 1,800 transaction attributes in real time for each payment. Chargeback management platform Justt updated its platform with Justt Flows, an automation engine for alerts …
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3 November
Truist Speeds Up Merchant Onboarding Time and Adopts Clover and Paze
Truist, the banking arm of Truist Financial Corp., is adding more merchant-services capabilities to its inventory with the addition of broader access to Clover point-of-sale devices and Paze, an online checkout service. Both are in addition to a new digital merchant-onboarding process. Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist says it is raising its …
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3 November
An AI Accounting Platform Enlists Stripe And Square
NumbersGame, a developer of software for accounting, announced integrations with the payments platforms Stripe and Square, and with accounting-software developer Ramp. The venture, intended for accounting operations using the Claude, Copilot, or ChaptGPT AI technologies, allows clients’ revenue to be handled by Stripe or Square, with spending attended to by …
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3 November
AmEx Goes Full Court and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/3/26
American Express Co. announced expansions of its agreements with the National Basketball Association and the Women’s National Basketball Association. The deals include a role for AmEx as Presenting Partner of NBA Houses, an initiative that features viewing parties and meetings with NBA players. Celerant Technology, a developer of software for retail …
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2 November
Holiday Shoppers Eye BNPL and Gift Cards
With the holiday shopping season underway, consumers are likely reviewing their lists with a keen eye on their budgets, making buy now, pay later and gift cards options a consideration for many, suggests the 2026 Consumer Holiday Spending Study issued by the Electronic Transactions Association and TSG, a payments-research organization. …
