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Arcade.dev, the first unified agent action platform that makes AI agents production-ready, and Lithic, the trusted card processing platform engineered for performance and built to last, today announced a partnership to develop the world’s first AI e-commerce application capable of making secure, authenticated payments. The partnership will launch the world’s first shopping agents that can search, compare products, and check out in one streamlined process.

Splitit, the only embedded white-label platform that enables card-linked installment payments using consumers' existing credit, and Antom, a leading provider of merchant payment and digitization services under Ant International, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at empowering merchants with a new, frictionless installment payment option. The collaboration integrates Splitit's technology into Antom's next-generation payment processing platform and merchant network, beginning in the U.S. and expanding globally.

Mollie, one of Europe’s fastest-growing payment service providers, today announces the launch of its own Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server – a new tool that makes it easier for merchants to integrate Mollie into their AI applications, simplifying workflows, improving efficiency, and reducing the need for technical know-how.

Silverflow, the new standard in payment processing, has partnered with xpate, the payments provider that makes it easier to pay, get paid and keep money flowing, to supercharge its acquiring services and enhance real-time payment capabilities

Sovos, the always-on compliance company, today announced that it has partnered with Shopify to launch Shopify Tax automated filing, a powerful new feature that automates the preparation, filing and remittance of sales tax returns for Shopify merchants.