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Why False Declines, Data Silos Are Next Big Payments Challenge
The payments industry is locked into a race toward speed. Faster rails, real-time settlement, one-click checkout, invisible authentication and more innovations are all pointed toward one assumption: that friction is the enemy, and technology’s job is to...
Nearly Half of Shoppers Used Mobile for Latest Retail Purchase
The smartphone is no longer just a shopping tool. It has become the storefront. That was the central takeaway from the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index: The Rise of the Mobile Window Shopper and What It Means for Payments,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report...
Google Introduces WebMCP to Give Browser Access for AI Agents
Google is taking a step toward formalizing how artificial intelligence (AI) agents interact with the web, introducing WebMCP as an early preview feature inside Chrome. WebMCP, short for Web Model Context Protocol, enables websites to expose structured data...
Will AI Agents Replace Shopping?
Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, a third of all retail sales happened at the mall. Susan shopped exactly the way the mall designers intended....