Tagged: commerce

March 25, 2026 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move signaling the influence of artificial intelligence in retail, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has announced a strategic investment in DaVinci Commerce. The global professional services giant made the investment through its Ventures arm and paired it with a collaborative agreement involving Accenture Song. The… Read More

February 4, 2026 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR) has recently announced its backing for Google‘s newly introduced Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). This open standard aims to revolutionize how AI agents interact with commerce platforms, facilitating a smoother end-to-end shopping experience that spans product discovery, transactions, and after-sales service. UCP represents a… Read More

January 14, 2026 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OnePay, the fintech company supported by retail giant Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT), has reached a valuation of more than $4 billion, marking a significant leap in its growth trajectory. This new milestone came through a recent share buyback program for employees, which priced the company’s shares at… Read More

January 12, 2026 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alphabet‘s (aka Google) (NASDAQ:GOOG) drone subsidiary, Wing, unveiled plans on Sunday to broaden its rapid delivery network in partnership with retail giant Walmart (NYSE:WMT). This year alone, the service is set to reach an extra 150 Walmart outlets, bringing ultrafast, on-demand drone shipments to shoppers… Read More

January 9, 2026 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the cutthroat world of retail, where billions are poured into marketing campaigns, sleek websites, and frictionless in-store experiences, an unseen force is undermining these efforts. Wayne Pommen, Chief Revenue Officer at Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), recently highlighted this “invisible headwind”: the staggering cost of credit… Read More

December 20, 2025 @ 1:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that protects business online, announced a collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) to bring identity, user recognition, and security controls to the world of agentic commerce. Via its integration of Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, which is described as being a new open standard that makes every product on the internet discoverable as well as more understandable by AI agents. As AI becomes… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments company, announced its support for the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), which is described as an open standard for AI commerce that lets AI agents, businesses work to complete purchases, powering agentic commerce for enterprise merchants. Checkout.com will support ACP, allowing merchants… Read More

March 16, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bilt Rewards, the payments and commerce platform transforming the $2.1 trillion housing payments market, announced the acquisition of Banyan, the platform for item-level receipt data. This acquisition—Bilt’s first— expands Bilt’s ability to create innovative, frictionless experiences that drive “neighborhood commerce and deliver  value to residents… Read More

November 22, 2023 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Identity fraud rose by more than a fifth this year, “amid warnings that fraudulent activity is set to peak over the Christmas shopping period.” New analysis from Experian reveals “that identity fraud rose by 22% in 2023, when compared to 2022, with the trend expected… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping destination, announced its continued momentum in Canada. Since launching in the market in February 2022 less than 18 months ago, Klarna claims it has achieved “a rapidly expanding network of over 640,000 active consumers; processed over… Read More

July 28, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Croissant, a Fintech platform with a mission to empower intentional commerce, launched today with $24 million in seed funding from a suite of top investors, including Portage and KKR co-founders George Roberts and Henry Kravis. Initial funding was used “to accelerate Croissant’s MVP launch via… Read More

July 25, 2023 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One year after launching its marketplace, Nubank (NYSE:NU), one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, is partnering with the traditional retail chain Casas Bahia in order “to implement a new shopping experience in its app.” Now, Nu customers will “have an even more… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finaro, the global cross-border payment provider and fully licensed bank, has announced its European Cloud Commerce deployment with payments technology company Mastercard, Nordic neobank and POS provider, Northmill, and full commerce enablement technology company, NMI. Following Mastercard’s launch in the U.S. in 2021, this partnership… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) will begin piloting biometrics-based payments with select retailers in the U.S. This is the first pilot solution to launch from J.P. Morgan Payments’ new Commerce Solutions suite of products, “dedicated to helping merchants adapt to the rapidly evolving payments landscape.” Its… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally Commerce, the headless, one-click checkout solution for digital merchants, announces a partnership with Swell in order “to give merchants better control over their business and deliver a seamless checkout experience for customers.” Swell’s infrastructure “coupled with Rally’s checkout empowers small merchants to scale their… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instead of dealing with different platforms and currencies, receipts and invoices, and arguing with banks over spend limits, you can consider using services provided via Juni. The company explains that with automatic receipt generation, real-time spend insights and Google Ads invoices auto-pulled into your account,… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FASTAF, which claims to be an ultrafast delivery startup supported by former NBA star Baron Davis, launches one of the “first” cryptocurrency-powered commerce platforms through partnerships with Stripe and Solana. As noted in the update shared with CI, FastAF says it is the “first” and… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WEX (NYSE: WEX), the global commerce platform that simplifies the business of running a business, announced the public launch of Flume, an FDIC-insured digital wallet uniquely designed “to bridge the digital divide for millions of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S.” Flume is provided by… Read More

September 24, 2022 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger, the data-driven lending technology provider, has partnered with Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company and developer of core banking engine Vault Core, “to provide a fully integrated technology stack for commercial lenders and banks.” API-driven data exchange between the two companies will… Read More