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Feedzai delivers end-to-end financial crime prevention, from account opening through transaction monitoring to AML compliance, for some of the...
Jumio provides an end-to-end identity verification, eKYC, and AML platform that covers 3,500+ government-issued ID types across 200+ countries...
Persona scores 4.5/5, Alloy 4.0/5 in our head-to-head. We compared verification, decisioning, pricing, and compliance. Choose the right one.
We reviewed Riskified, the NYSE-listed fraud platform with a chargeback guarantee model. Full MM Verified rating and analysis inside.
We reviewed TrueLayer, the FCA-regulated open banking platform powering Pay by Bank for eBay, Stripe, and Shopify. $322M raised. 4/5.
Trulioo covers 195+ countries and 700 million business entities through a single API integration. The $1.75 billion platform serves Stripe, PayPal, and American Express. We scored it 3.5/5 in our...
We compared Unit21 and Hummingbird across 8 criteria. Unit21 leads on AI agents and scale. Hummingbird wins on investigations and SAR automation.
Citi's global payments chief is actively discussing agentic commerce, real-time payments, and stablecoin settlement with institutional clients.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent warning letters to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe over debanking. Those four companies are also building the infrastructure for AI agent commerce. The overlap is not a coincidence.
The Solana Foundation launched a developer platform with 20+ infrastructure partners and a single API. Its first three users are a card network, a money transfer giant, and a global acquirer.
Agentic payments are live on three continents. The protocols are in production. The infrastructure is real. This is the complete guide to what agentic payments are, how they work, who is building them, and what breaks when AI agents handle money.
x402 built the payment protocol. Stripe's MPP built the merchant integration. MoonPay just open-sourced the wallet standard. Three companies, three layers, one month.
Kalshi is building the same trust infrastructure that took the payments industry decades to establish. Criminal charges, restraining orders, and federal legislation say the clock is ticking.
Visa's new research with PYMNTS frames tokenization not as a security feature but as the structural layer that makes checkout invisible in agentic commerce. With 17.5 billion tokens globally and guest checkout collapsing, the credential layer is becoming the commerce layer.
Fourteen articles. Five days. The clearest picture yet of how AI agents will actually move money.
Banco Santander ran live agentic payment transactions with Visa across multiple Latin American markets. JP Morgan partnered with Mirakl on autonomous AI payments days earlier. The card networks are processing, not piloting.
The SEC and CFTC issued the clearest crypto guidance in over a decade. For the stablecoin settlement layer being built for AI agent commerce, this is a de-risking event. But US clarity does not solve the global problem.
Credit unions are positioning for agentic commerce. But the dispute infrastructure that protects 140 million members was built for a world where humans initiate every transaction. The gap hits harder here.
Eight protocols. Six companies. Four layers. One quarter. The infrastructure for AI agent commerce shipped in Q1 2026. It does not fit together yet.
The company that processes payments for millions of merchants is building agent authentication into its infrastructure. Both card networks are now inside.
AI agents are running live transactions, settling payments over HTTP, and reshaping fraud at scale. The infrastructure underneath commerce is changing faster than the institutions governing it. Here is everything we published this week.
Coinbase built a payment protocol into HTTP itself. Cloudflare, Google, and Visa joined. The infrastructure for agent-native commerce is being laid in production.
The industry is building rails for AI agents to spend your money. It has not redesigned the system for what happens when those agents get it wrong.
Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program is not about crypto adoption. It is about who controls the translation layer between on-chain and fiat.