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Industry Reports 2026

Agentic perfection. If you are a payment provider

Agentic commerce just collided with a regulatory regime that wasn't waiting for it

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Vinny O Brien
Apr 27, 2026
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In a satirical piece I wrote at the start of March, I imagined a 2028 in which Klarna had its best quarter since the dawn of time. The joke was that agentic commerce, having gone live without anyone really thinking through the credit layer, had filled household garages across America with industrial dehumidifiers and Sardinian cheese, all of it bought o…

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