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Episode 304 - Fanning the Flames: Meta Muse, Instinct, and the Current State of Agentic Commerce

Glenbrook's Chris Uriarte and Drew Edmond revisit the state of agentic commerce, exploring emerging consumer interfaces like Instinct and Meta Muse, access to merchant catalogs and data, and the challenges of turning agent-driven shopping into actual transactions. They also share their firsthand experiences making an agentic purchase through Meta Muse, and the industry complexities that still need addressed.
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Episode 303 - Fanning the Flames: Every Payment, Every Environment, All at Once

This episode is a follow up to Drew Edmond's 2025 payments performance optimization series, and an accumulation of what he has learned about how optimization actually works today. And here's the short version - for subscription payments and for subscription businesses, an individual transaction success depends on a lot more than just the payment.  Tune in as Drew outlines a data-forward approach that spans every environment a payment touches, highlighted by clips from previous guests from the payments performance optimization series.
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Barclaycard Payments and Visa Bring Unified Checkout to UK Merchants, Simplifying Payment Acceptance

Visa

“Visa announced that Barclaycard Payments has deployed its Unified Checkout solution, enabling its UK merchant customers to unlock seamless payment acceptance and improve ecommerce conversion. The new agreement builds on six decades of joint innovation between Visa and Barclaycard across payments and acceptance. Barclaycard Payments will embed Unified Checkout into their Smartpay Fuse payment gateway, […]
Tags: Barlaycard Visa
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dLocal and Western Union Expand Their Partnership to Cover Remittance Payouts in Africa

dLocal

“dLocal and Western Union announced an expansion of their partnership in Africa to include payouts. This adds to the collections work they already run together, with dLocal providing the technology and connectivity layer, while regulated local partners execute the relevant payment and payout services. The expansion will start with a live payout corridor in Cameroon.”
Tags: dLocal Western Union
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Jamie Dimon Warns AI Agents That Make Payments on Your Behalf ‘May Not’ Act Properly: AI Revolution Like a ‘Tsunami’ That Must Be Managed

Benzinga

“JPMorgan Chase & Co.  Jamie Dimon cautioned that artificial intelligence agents allowed to make payments for customers would need their bank codes, putting the agents inside the bank with no assurance that they will act in customers’ interests. Dimon said that if agents can make payments, customers have to hand over their bank code, and […]
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