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SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 |
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Which AI company is Mastercard collaborating with to make a commerce agent blueprint available to merchants for building shopping agents? |
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A) OpenAI B) Google C) Anthropic D) Meta |
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PAYMENTS |
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PayPal CEO Enrique Lores views Venmo as central to pioneering PayPal’s recovery, per The Wall Street Journal. |
Lores wants to turn Venmo into a one-stop shop for money management, complete with crypto and investing services like SoFi and Chime, according to comments he made to investors. |
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BANKING |
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More than 20% of US consumers now use AI tools to research banking products, according to EMARKETER’s “US Banking Consumer Habits” survey. |
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Speaking at FinvateFall 2026, Principal Analyst Tiffani Montez argued AI has become an intermediary deciding which banks, card issuers, and fintechs get recommended. |
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CONSUMER TRENDS |
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Just over half (51%) of digital banking Americans are comfortable with AI processing their financial data in exchange for a better experience, according to an Alkami survey. |
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Consumers are particularly open to AI when it helps detect suspicious activity, improves security, saves time, or supports better financial decisions. |
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Consumers aren’t embracing AI or data sharing unconditionally. They provide access when AI solves an identifiable problem. |
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REPORT |
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Millennials’ digital habits are evolving as work, spending, and family responsibilities grow. Their digital fluency fuels AI use and ecommerce even as digital fatigue and parenting reshape how they engage with media and technology. |
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Key Question: How is millennials’ entry into a new life stage reshaping their digital habits and purchasing behaviors? |
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Key Stat: Roughly 55% of millennial AI users have used an AI tool while shopping in the last month, compared with less than half of the total population. |
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(EMARKETER subscription required to read the full report) |
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CHART OF THE WEEK |
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Key stat: NerdWallet is the most-cited nonbrand domain, accounting for 36% of all ChatGPT recommendations that cited a domain in the US credit card category. It is closely followed by Forbes at 35%, showing that these two publishers dominate the AI visibility landscape for this query type, per EMARKETER's AI Visibility Index. | | | |
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