There’s a debate happening inside every financial institution right now, and it comes down to a single question: do you use AI to do what you already do, only cheaper — or do you use it to build something your…
Fintech Investment · Industry Analysis · 2025 After three consecutive years of declining investment, the global fintech market turned a corner in 2025. Total investment rose from $95.5 billion to $116 billion year-over-year — driven by growing deal sizes, surging…
The announcement that Xero has signed a multi-year partnership with Anthropic to embed Claude directly into its small business accounting platform is worth paying attention to — not because AI partnerships are novel at this point, but because of what…
The fact that Visa can launch a product in 2026 that offers acquirers a single API connection for payment authorisation across all major card networks — and that this is considered a significant advancement — tells you everything about how…
There is an infrastructure problem at the heart of agentic commerce that most coverage of AI shopping assistants has ignored. When an autonomous AI agent purchases something on behalf of a consumer, it defaults to a stored card — a…
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