Blockchain and Crypto,
Member Exclusive,
Payments
- What does banking look like when money can be spent outside the traditional account structure?
- June's announcements point to a new model: card programs backed by tokenized dollars. But stablecoin-backed credit raises three harder questions.
Sara Khairi | June 25, 2026
AI Innovation,
Artificial Intelligence,
Payments
- AI agents today can already handle end-to-end commerce. The open question is whether those actions can be trusted at scale.
- Intelligence is becoming table stakes as AI scales. The differentiator shifts to governance: agent identity, permissions, and enforceable limits.
Sara Khairi | June 16, 2026
AI Innovation,
Artificial Intelligence,
Member Exclusive,
Payments
- J.P. Morgan Payments is moving the conversation beyond capability and toward the infrastructure and framework required to govern AI agents.
- Data is emerging as a core ingredient of agentic commerce, shaping the information agents can access and the decisions they can make.
Sara Khairi | June 11, 2026
Insights & Action,
Payments
- The average consumer swipes a debit card 40+ times a month. But most loyalty programs only capture credit card transactions.
- Through co-brand debit, your brand earns relevance across the everyday transactions already happening, groceries, dining, transit, subscriptions.
Rabab Ahsan | June 08, 2026
Member Exclusive,
Payments,
SMB Finance
- Intuit is addressing fragmentation by launching QuickBooks Workforce, an AI-native, end-to-end human capital management platform built directly into QuickBooks.
- The firm is building a unified SMB operating system where finance, workforce, AI agents, and operations continuously feed into one another.
Sara Khairi | May 28, 2026
