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🎧 What does agentic commerce mean for payments — and how can merchants prepare? At MPE Berlin, our VP of Product AI, Data & Insights, Marco Conte, joined the c-suite podcast episode “Risks, Readiness and the Road to Agentic Commerce: Insights from MPE Berlin” to share his perspective on how AI-driven transactions will reshape the payments landscape. Key takeaways from the conversation: ✅ Agentic commerce is still in early stages, but its impact will be massive ✅ Merchants should focus on readiness, not immediate rollout ✅ New challenges are emerging around trust, fraud, and liability ✅ The checkout experience will become more conversational and seamless ✅ Payment orchestration will play a critical role in managing new protocols and complexity As Marco puts it, it’s not about moving first or second; it’s about being ready to move. 👉 Listen to the full episode: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dDjzmFvJ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dErBDbyw Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/dvyvEEUw csuitepodcast.com: https://lnkd.in/dsfWzGju #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

Last year at Merchant Payments Ecosystem, Agentic Commerce was a visionary concept. This year, the conversation has fundamentally changed: it’s no longer about if, but when and how. As the IXOPAY team returns from a high-energy week at the MPE conference in Berlin, one thing is clear: the infrastructure for the next era of commerce is being built right now. Our 3 Top Insights from the Event: 👉 The Ecosystem is Ready: One of the biggest signals at MPE was the launch of the Visa "Agentic Ready Program” for issuers in Europe. Visa is now working directly with issuers to move beyond theory and into production-grade environments. 👉 The "Build vs. Buy" Dilemma: During our stage discussions with leaders from OpenAI, Visa, and Checkout.com, we addressed a critical merchant hurdle: Complexity. Do you build a custom agentic stack or buy a neutral orchestration layer? At IXOPAY, we believe having a flexible foundation is the only way to scale without being locked into a single protocol. 👉 The 2-Year Horizon: The industry consensus is that agentic commerce volumes will become a significant market force within the next 12–24 months. There is a lot of curiosity about how much impact and share of payments will become agentic. Our booth was buzzing all week with conversations about how Orchestration and Payments Intelligence are no longer "nice-to-haves"—they are the core pillars of a modern merchant strategy. Thank you to everyone who stopped by! We’re excited to continue building the infrastructure for the agentic future. #MPE2026 #AgenticCommerce #PaymentOrchestration #PaymentsIntelligence

Agentic commerce is here. Payments infrastructure wasn’t built for it. As AI agents begin transacting on behalf of consumers, merchants are taking on more risk — without consistent ways to verify identity, preserve intent, or evaluate trust. That’s a structural gap. IXOPAY and Zip Co are developing the Unified Trust Layer — an open framework to make AI-initiated transactions verifiable, auditable, and interoperable. This isn’t a product. It’s an industry initiative. Our goal: enable merchants to accept agent-driven transactions while preserving identity, intent, and trust. We’re inviting merchants, payment providers, networks, platforms, and technology partners to help shape what comes next. 👉 Learn more and join the initiative: https://lnkd.in/dHHhrvqp #AgenticCommerce #Payments #Fintech #TrustInfrastructure

AI agents are starting to make purchases on behalf of consumers. That shift introduces a new challenge for merchants: How do you prove a transaction was actually authorized? In autonomous commerce, it’s no longer enough to optimize routing, authorization rates, or costs. You also need to verify who initiated a transaction, capture consent, and preserve evidence for disputes. In our latest article, we explore why payment orchestration must evolve into trust orchestration — and what that means in practice: ✅ Verifying identity (human vs. agent) ✅ Capturing consent and intent ✅ Aggregating trust signals across systems ✅ Creating replayable audit trails As agent-driven payments grow, the ability to prove what happened will become just as important as processing the payment itself. 👉 Read the full article to learn how to prepare your payments stack for autonomous commerce: https://lnkd.in/dW6G8SZY #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

MRC Vegas is in full swing, and tomorrow brings a highlight you won’t want to miss. Join experts from PPRO, Adobe, and IXOPAY for an insightful panel on: "Cracking conversion rates in LATAM: The payments performance playbook." 📅 March 18, 2026 ⏰ 8:00 AM We’re excited to share that Brie O'Brien, Account Manager at IXOPAY, will join the panel alongside Devang G., Sr. Product Manager at Adobe. The session will be moderated by Therese Vallerius Hudak, VP Commercial at PPRO. Don’t miss this opportunity to boost your LATAM payments performance. Come join the discussion and elevate your strategy. Meet us at Booth #113 to discuss your LATAM payments challenges one-on-one. See you there! #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

One week to go until Merchant Payment Ecosystem (MPE) 2026 in Berlin. From March 17–19, the MPE conference will bring together more than 1,500 senior payment professionals, 500+ leading merchants, and 160+ expert speakers to explore the latest developments across the merchant payments landscape. 📅 March 17–19, 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany 🤝 InterContinental Berlin Hotel, Booth W18 From payment orchestration and tokenization to open banking, AI in payments, PSD3, and fraud prevention, MPE is one of Europe’s most important forums for discussing the future of merchant payments. 🎉 We’re also excited to share that IXOPAY has been shortlisted for the MPE Awards 2026 in the category “Best Payment Orchestration Solution.” If you’re attending, stop by Booth W18 and connect with the IXOPAY team. We’d love to discuss how payment orchestration can help you simplify complexity, optimize performance, and stay flexible in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dSr6QdMr #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

🎙️ PaymentsJournal Podcast: "Tokenization - From Security Tool to Future-Ready Payments" with Kiel Cook. Tokenization began as a way to protect sensitive card data following major retail breaches that exposed thousands of PANs. Today, it’s much more than a security measure; it’s becoming a strategic foundation for modern payment infrastructure. In a recent PaymentsJournal podcast, our Principal Product Manager, Kiel Cook, joins Don Apgar, Director of Merchant Payments at Javelin Strategy & Research, to unpack how tokenization is evolving and why merchants should rethink their strategy now. Key topics from the conversation:  ✅ Why network tokens, PSP tokens, and universal tokens are a “better-together” strategy  ✅ How tokenization can improve authorization rates and reduce unnecessary declines  ✅ Why token ownership directly impacts flexibility, routing, and negotiating leverage  ✅ What Mastercard’s 2030 tokenization mandate means for merchants  ✅ How token frameworks will help establish trust in the age of agentic commerce As payment credentials multiply and AI-driven commerce emerges, merchants who control their payment data and maintain flexibility in their stack will be best positioned for the future. 👉 Read the full recap and listen to the podcast: https://lnkd.in/d_Xvh8AM #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

🎰 IXOPAY Attends MRC Vegas 2026 IXOPAY is proud to attend and sponsor MRC Vegas 2026, taking place March 16–19 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Hosted by the Merchant Risk Council (MRC), this premier event brings together payment and fraud leaders from the world’s largest merchants and top solution providers to collaborate on the future of payments. 📅 March 16–19, 2026 📍 Booth 113, Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas As a provider of enterprise-grade Payment Orchestration, IXOPAY helps merchants optimize payment performance while maintaining flexibility and control across their payment stack. MRC Vegas offers a unique merchant-led forum to explore the most pressing challenges in payments, from fraud mitigation and regulatory change to performance optimization and emerging technologies. 👉 Let’s connect in Las Vegas: https://lnkd.in/d8mUyC5g Attending MRC this year? Stop by Booth 113 or reach out to schedule a meeting with our team. We’d love to learn more about your payment strategy and show how IXOPAY can help you reduce complexity, increase conversions, and future-proof your payment operations. #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

Two weeks ago at the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG) conference in San Diego, we joined Grover on stage to discuss a challenge many payments teams know well: making sense of fragmented payment data. In the session “From Data to Decisions: How AI is Transforming Merchant Payment Insights”, Tanit Parada Tur from Grover and Marco Conte from IXOPAY shared how Grover moved from scattered dashboards and spreadsheets to a unified view of payment performance. With hundreds of thousands of transactions each month, Grover faced a familiar problem: data lived across multiple PSP dashboards, reports, and internal tools. That fragmentation made it difficult to answer simple questions like: • Where are we leaking money? • Why are transactions failing? By consolidating payment data and applying AI-driven analysis, the team uncovered a critical issue. An integration error was causing hard declines to be retried, triggering unnecessary network penalties and quietly increasing costs. Once identified, the fix was straightforward, but without a unified data view, the root cause would have remained buried. The discussion also highlighted how AI-powered anomaly detection can help payments teams surface issues faster by identifying patterns across gateways, issuing banks, payment methods, and regions that would otherwise take hours to detect manually. The key takeaway: merchants don’t lack payment data — they lack clarity. Read the full recap to see how Grover turned payment data chaos into actionable insights. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dFfuAKpd #IXOPAY #PaymentOrchestration

IXOPAY has been shortlisted for the MPE Awards 2026 in the Best Payment Orchestration Solution category! This recognition highlights the strength of our payment orchestration platform, which helps merchants optimize transactions, connect to 200+ PSPs and 300+ payment methods through 500+ certified adapters, and scale globally with greater resilience and control. It’s also a reflection of the broader infrastructure we’re building at IXOPAY. From merchant-owned, token-first payment infrastructure to AI-driven payments intelligence and full-scale orchestration, our enterprise-grade platform equips merchants with the tools to manage and optimize every step of their payments journey and prepare for the future of agentic commerce. Huge thanks to our team, customers, and partners who make this possible. Looking forward to celebrating with the industry in Berlin on 18 March 2026. Join us at MPE2026: https://lnkd.in/dHX8ND7y #MPEAwards #mpecosystem #MPE2026 #MPEBerlin