Fintech’s New Era 2026: Balancing Real-Time Payments Modernisation with AI Fraud Realities: By Nanne Parmar
What's happening
The payments industry is rapidly pairing real-time payments modernisation with a new wave of AI, from agentic commerce to broader AI use beyond fraud scoring. Publications note AI is moving into core payments operations (Payments Industry Intelligence), fueling agentic commerce and a new Local Payments Council for Agentic Commerce in Europe (PaymentsJournal). At the same time experts warn faster payments and AI increase pressure on underlying infrastructure and controls, compressing time to detect bad transactions and raising liability concerns (PYMNTS, FinTech Global, Payments Dive).
Why it's trending
Because faster, real-time rails and agentic AI deployments are converging now, exposing infrastructure gaps and control, liability and fraud detection challenges.
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If you think AI makes payments safer, you haven't read how faster rails are actually giving fraud more room to act, and that's the problem infrastructure must solve next.
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- QORE breaks down the next frontier for AI in payments
The payments infrastructure could be on the verge of a great transformation if it manages to implement AI beyond only fraud and risk scoring. With the capabilities of the newest technology, user experience may improve substantially, but only if it’s implemented right. QORE Head of Business Development Vasos Varnava, tells Payment Expert how the bigger potential […]
Payment ExpertOct 29 - AI and Embedded Finance Raise the Bar for Payment Controls
Watch more: Your Payments Got Smarter. Did Your Infrastructure? Faster payments compress the time available to catch a bad transaction, reconcile an exception or determine whether the party moving money is who it claims to be. Speedier payments put more pressure on infrastructure that customers rarely see. In a PYMNTS interview, Taranjit Singh, senior vice […] The post AI and Embedded Financ
PYMNTSOct 29 - Agentic AI Moves From Experimentation Into Core Payments Operations
Agentic artificial intelligence is beginning to move from experimental banking applications into the operational heart of payments, as financial institutions look for ways to manage increasingly fragmented infrastructure with greater... read more The post Agentic AI Moves From Experimentation Into Core Payments Operations appeared first on Payments Industry Intelligence .
Payments Industry IntelligenceOct 28
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