The retail and payments stack was built for a human who navigates to a merchant and checks out. Agents do neither. This arc follows what breaks, what re-prices, and what has to be rebuilt when the buyer is a model acting on someone’s behalf.

  1. Agentic Commerce: The Practitioner Definition
    The ground-level definition the rest of the coverage builds on.
  2. Your Best Customer Is Now a Bot
    The merchant side: telling a customer’s agent apart from an attacker’s.
  3. The Checkout That Nobody Used
    The first big agentic-checkout retreat, and what it says about where buying actually happens.
  4. FIS Bought the Biggest Issuing Business on Earth, Then Plugged In the Agents
    The issuer side placing its bet on agent-mediated commerce.
  5. ChatGPT Becomes a Financial App
    The destination economy inverting: the shopper never arrives at the merchant.

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