Antom Hopes Asian Shoppers Are Ready for Agentic AI
As agentic AI promises to take on the role of a personal shopper, Antom, a division of the Chinese financial giant Ant Group, has launched a new agentic payment solution for the Asia Pacific region. In a partnership with Mastercard and Visa, Antom is introducing tokenized, card-based agentic payments that would enable AI agents to […]
Stripe and Fireblocks Launch Competing Stablecoin Rails
Just as stablecoins have proliferated, there will be more networks to support them. Blockchain infrastructure firm Fireblocks unveiled its global stablecoin network, which is designed to connect rails as diverse as foreign exchange companies, domestic payment platforms, and stablecoin issuers. In a news release, Fireblocks likened its network to cross-border payments system Swift and noted […]
Is There Any Reason for Merchants to Dip Their Toes into Faster Payments?
Faster payments have made a big splash in the payment processing industry, with the Federal Reserve’s FedNow platform rolling out in 2023 to join its older rival, the Clearinghouse’s RTP network. But for merchants, the revolution has not happened yet—and might never happen. The use cases for retailers, to this point, simply do not exist. […]