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Commerce
25 stories · page 3 of 3Circle announced it has final approval for its own bank. The regulator is silent
On 10 July the company behind the USDC stablecoin announced, in its own press release, that the US banking regulator had given it final approval to charter First National Digital Currency Bank. The regulator itself has no announcement of its own on the matter. And managing the reserves behind the coin is not an approved power.
Read →Klarna finances the machine behind "buy now, pay later" in Germany
Klarna signed a two-year, 900 million euro agreement that, per the company, will support up to 5 billion euros of consumer credit in Germany. The money behind the buy-now-pay-later button comes from outside - from capital the company lined up in advance.
Read →The US labor market cooled, and everyone will go looking for AI in the numbers
The June US jobs report shows 57 thousand new jobs - sharply below the roughly 115 thousand expected. The temptation is to blame AI. Except the BLS report (the US Bureau of Labor Statistics) doesn't say that.
Read →Stripe lets German shops sell through AI
Stripe is rolling out the Agentic Commerce Suite for Germany - selling directly through AI interfaces by the end of the year. Plus Managed Payments (selling without a local entity) for 195 markets, and dynamic local pricing, measured at +17.8% revenue.
Read →The end of duty-free small parcels in the EU
From July 1 the EU scraps the 150-euro duty-free threshold and puts a flat 3-euro duty per line on imports from outside. Shopify now gives a way to calculate it. Selling into the EU from outside - work it out now.
Read →The store that sells itself inside AI chats
Shopify Winter '26: 150+ updates, Sidekick AI, and 'agentic storefronts' - your products pop up in ChatGPT and Perplexity without you touching a single integration.
Read →An open standard for shopping through an AI agent
Stripe and OpenAI launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol - a common language between merchants and AI agents. Plus payment right inside ChatGPT, and your own stablecoins with a few lines of code.
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