Digital Watermarks Are the Latest Protection for Physical Gift Cards
As the holiday shopping season heads into its final phase, last-minute gift cards are expected to fly off the store shelves. This year, shoppers may benefit from a new technology designed to make those cards far more tamper-proof. Schnuck Markets, a grocery chain in the St. Louis area, recently completed a 10-week pilot program with […]
Amazon Pay Is One of the First Wallets to Support Biometrics on UPI
Not long after India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) launched a feature enabling users to approve payments with a fingerprint or facial scan, Amazon Pay rolled out its own support for biometric authentication. Previously, consumers were required to enter a PIN to authorize transactions. Under the new feature, UPI now allows transactions of up to ₹5,000 […]
Will Agentic Commerce Break Through Next Year?
After the initial buzz around agentic commerce, skeptics questioned whether artificial intelligence agents would ever gain real traction in retail. Yet developments suggest that hesitation may be premature. Most recently, Visa completed hundreds of AI-driven transactions in pilots of its Intelligent Commerce program and expects rapid consumer adoption of the technology. The goal of agentic […]