Payment security has spent two decades treating automated traffic as a threat to be filtered out. Agentic commerce is reversing that logic. Visa has enrolled local banks in its Agentic Ready programme, Mastercard has launched Agent Pay, and OpenAI has integrated Instant Checkout with Stripe. In March 2026, Mastercard and Google open-sourced a protocol called Verifiable Intent. Behind each launch sits the same idea: an AI agent transacts on a customer’s behalf, and the payment completes without further human input.
The global cybersecurity landscape is approaching a turning point as quantum computing accelerates faster than most organisations realise.
According to Wessel Pieterse, cybersecurity lead at Accelera Digital Group (ADG), the shift is not a distant, theoretical concern, but a present-day business risk that demands immediate action.
Damisa, a regulated cross-border payments company built on stablecoin rails, has appointed Nick Watkins as Chairman of the Board.
As Chairman, Watkins will advise Damisa’s leadership team and support its operational development as the company expands globally and prepares for a Series A funding round process, which will kick off later this year.
