05/27/2026
By David Penn on 2026/05/27 18:12 -0400
- Modern card platform Highnote unveiled its new Agentic Commerce capabilities this week.
- Built using Visa Intelligent Commerce, Highnote's Agentic Commerce will allow businesses to power AI-initiated payments that feature programmable controls, tokenized credentials, and dynamic authorization.
- Headquartered in San Francisco, Highnote made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2022.
Courtesy of a partnership with Visa, Highnote—a modern issuing, acquiring, credit, ledger, and...
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/27 16:03 -0400
Spain’s ministry of consumer rights blocked access to Kalshi and Polymarket this week. The country has paused the use of the prediction markets (also known as event contracts) as it determines whether their models are operating legally without a gambling license.
Spain joins France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Romania, which have all limited or blocked access to Polymarket.
The controversy begs the question: are prediction markets useful forecasting tools, speculative tools, or simply...
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/27 15:19 -0400
- Robinhood launched Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card, enabling AI agents to trade stocks and make purchases directly on consumers’ behalf through Robinhood’s infrastructure.
- The new tools allow users to connect external AI agents via Robinhood’s MCP servers while maintaining guardrails such as spending limits, dedicated accounts, manual approvals, and real-time activity monitoring.
- The launch marks a major shift in financial services from AI as an advisory assistant...
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/26 17:41 -0400
- Spain-based Didit raised an additional $6 million in Seed funding to expand its programmable identity and fraud infrastructure globally, bringing its total funding to $7.5 million.
- Didit offers developers API-first tools to verify users, businesses, and online interactions, using AI to analyze more than 200 signals including biometric liveness, deepfakes, and behavioral activity.
- The funding highlights growing demand for identity and fraud tools built for the AI era, as businesses...
By David Penn on 2026/05/26 17:09 -0400
- Financial services company Zip announced a new partnership with international payments company InComm Payments.
- The partnership will bring Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) functionality to the gift card category.
- Founded in 1992, InComm made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2011 in New York. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Australia-based Zip was founded in 2013 and serves customers in New Zealand and the US, as well as Australia.
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