


Consumers Warm Up to AI Shopping Tools Across Generations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond search and recommendations into actively helping consumers shop, with new agentic AI tools designed to browse, compare and even purchase products on behalf of consumers. New data from PYMNTS Intelligence shows that AI...
84% of Shoppers Want One-Click Checkout
In the rush to expand internationally, merchants may be overlooking a simple but potent tool: the one-click checkout. While digital wallets and real-time payments grab headlines, the frictionless final step of the transaction may hold the greatest potential for...
Embedded Finance Emerges as Growth Engine for Q2 Earnings
Executives across the payments and lending spectrum have used their second-quarter earnings calls to emphasize embedded finance not just as a future prospect, but as a present-day growth engine. Embedded finance broadly refers to payments or banking functions built...
Deep Dive: What Shopify’s AI Storefront Updates Mean for Commerce and Payments: By Sam Boboev
Shopify is betting big that conversational AI agents will become the new storefronts of the internet – and it’s rolling out some ambitious tools to make that happen. If phrases like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Global Catalog sound like sci-fi jargon,...