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