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Shopify Says It's Never Been More Excited. Forrester Says Slow Down. They're Both Right.
Shopify's president told an audience in Los Angeles this week that his company has never been more excited about anything in its history. Five days earlier, Forrester published adoption data suggesting most consumers haven't even started shopping with AI. The interesting part isn't that they disagree. It's that they're both looking at accurate data and drawing different conclusions. What Did Shopify Say About Agentic Commerce? Harley Finkelstein, Shopify's president, spoke at the Upfr
Visa Just Made Agentic Commerce a Payments Standard. Here's What That Means for Retailers.
In the span of 48 hours this week, Visa made two moves that quietly shifted agentic commerce from conference-talk territory into real payments infrastructure. On Monday, March 17, Visa launched Visa Agentic Ready in Europe - a program that puts issuers into controlled production environments to test AI agent-initiated transactions. On Tuesday, Visa announced support for Stripe and Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), releasing a card-based specification, a developer SDK, and integrati