Only 7% of Fashion Shoppers Trust AI to Buy for Them Today, Showing Merchants Must Build Confidence in Agentic Commerce
- 1 week 5 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Fashion and sportswear consumers are increasingly embracing AI throughout the shopping journey, particularly when it helps them find better value. However, new research conducted by YouGov on behalf of ACI Worldwide shows that trust, transparency and control remain critical requirements before consumers are ready to hand purchasing decisions to AI agents.
CUBE and IBM Announce New Collaboration to Help Enterprises Navigate AI Regulation and Simplify Compliance and Risk Processes
- 1 week 6 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
CUBE, the AI-native regulatory intelligence company, today announced a collaboration with IBM for a new Regulatory Horizon Scanning capability within IBM watsonx.governance. The integration embeds CUBE’s global regulatory intelligence directly into watsonx.governance, giving enterprises continuous visibility into regulatory developments impacting their AI systems worldwide.
TS Imagine Launches TSIQ, an AI Platform for Capital Markets
- 1 week 6 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
TS Imagine, a leading global multi-asset provider of cloud-native trading, wealth, portfolio, risk management and prime brokerage solutions, today announced the launch of TSIQ. TSIQ is the first broadly available AI platform to enable financial institutions to move beyond information retrieval and analysis to explain, recommend, and act while maintaining human oversight and control at every stage.
Sapiens Announces Its AI-Native Autonomous Insurance Platform (SapiensAIP)
- 2 weeks 1 day ago
- Artificial Intelligence
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Sokin Launches MCP Connector: Customers’ AI Can Now Line Up Payments in Minutes
- 2 weeks 1 day ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Sokin, the global financial platform powering how businesses transact, manage and optimize money in an agentic world, has connected its licensed payment infrastructure to customers' AI tools, releasing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector. The MCP lets a finance team use AI such as Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity for a range of tasks such as creating a live cash position estimate or preparing a cross-border payment for approval... more
Experian Launches AI-Enabled Decisioning Platform Bringing Real-Time Underwriting and Cash Flow Intelligence to Its Consumer Marketplace
- 2 weeks 4 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
As lenders increasingly seek more personalized ways to evaluate consumers and expand access to credit, Experian® has rolled out Experian Activate™, an AI-enabled decisioning engine powering the Experian Marketplace, a leading consumer comparison-shopping platform for credit cardsii, personal loansiii and auto insuranceiv.
Stripe Helps Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Shop Across the Internet With Link
- 2 weeks 4 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today announced that Meta has integrated Link’s wallet for agents with Muse, its new personal AI agent. US consumers can connect their Link accounts to Muse and enable their muse agent to buy from businesses across the internet.
First Pilot BLIK Transaction Completed Independently by an AI Agent
- 2 weeks 4 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
For the first time, an AI agent independently completed a purchase and paid for it using BLIK, without the user’s involvement at the moment of the transaction. As part of the pilot project, the agent monitored the availability of a product specified by the user during a conversation with an AI assistant in the Your KAYA online store. When the selected product variant – a “light hand cream with coconut and almond fragrance” – became available... more
Ripple Treasury Launches AI Agents That Cite Policy and Wait for Approval
- 2 weeks 4 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Today, Ripple announced a major expansion of GSmart, the treasury-native AI capabilities built into Ripple Treasury. Already in production across its enterprise customer base, GSmart embeds AI directly into the policies, data, and workflows treasury teams use every day. This expansion adds new policy-governed capabilities across forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation, and reporting, helping finance teams make faster, more informed... more
New Visa Research Finds Consumer Trust Is Accelerating the Path to Agentic Commerce
- 2 weeks 5 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Visa today announced the Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce, providing new insight into how consumers are navigating the next evolution of AI shopping and payments. While consumers are increasingly using AI across the shopping journey, only 23% of U.S. consumers trust GenAI to handle payment transactions on their behalf. However, confidence in agentic commerce shifts when payments brands come into consideration. Visa emerged as the most... more
Mastercard and Backbase Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate AI-Native Banking Transformation
- 2 weeks 6 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Mastercard and Backbase are collaborating to help financial institutions strengthen customer engagement, enhance decision-making and advance their digital transformation ambitions through a combination of data insights, cybersecurity and banking technology capabilities.
Smarsh Scales Salesforce’s Agentforce After Delivering Strong Customer Support Results
- 2 weeks 6 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Smarsh, the global leader in communications data and intelligence, helps regulated organizations, including many of the world's largest banks, insurers, and government agencies, capture and act on digital communications to stay ahead of risk. As customer support demand grew, Smarsh set out to deliver faster, accurate answers without compromising the compliance rigor those organizations depend on.
CRIF Launches AI Anti-Fraud Solution for Financial Providers to Tackle Tampering During Customer Onboarding
- 3 weeks 1 hour ago
- Artificial Intelligence
CRIF – the global leader in credit and insurance information, analytics and solutions – has today launched its AI-powered fraud detection services in the UK, helping financial providers tackle tampering during customer onboarding. Designed specifically for banks and insurers, the tool helps strengthen onboarding checks, identifying potentially fraudulent information before businesses are accepted onto financial providers’ systems.
Mastercard Report Predicts That 1 in 10 People Will Routinely Use AI Agents to Shop and Pay by 2030
- 3 weeks 3 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
More than one in ten online shoppers are expected to routinely use AI agents to purchase products on their behalf by 2030, according to futurists’ predictions in new Mastercard report A Short History of the Future of Shopping and Payments. Drawing on Mastercard research and the perspectives of four world-leading futurists from the US, Europe and Asia, the report explores what everyday life is likely to look like by the end of the decade.
Ramp Announces Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Provide AI-Enabled Finance Operations
- 3 weeks 22 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Ramp today announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its availability in AWS Marketplace. Together, these give AWS customers a faster path to modernize finance operations with Ramp's AI-powered platform, including corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, procurement, travel, banking, automated bookkeeping, and AI-powered controls.
