The Payments Blog

If you’ve been following the RivaTech blog for a while, you know we’ve been banging on about the "Agent Economy" for months. We’ve talked about how AI is moving from a fancy autocomplete tool to something that actually does things. Well, as of May 2026, the game has officially changed. Up until now, AI agents have been essentially broke. They could research your holiday, draft your emails, and maybe even write a bit of code, but the second they needed to actually buy somethin

We’ve been hearing about the "AI revolution" for a few years now. Most of us use it to summarise long emails, write a bit of code, or perhaps generate a funny image of a cat riding a surfboard. But while we were all busy chatting with bots, something much more fundamental began to shift under the hood of the global economy. The dream of AI doing our chores: booking the flights, sorting the groceries, managing the admin: is old news. What’s actually new is that AI is starting

Google just dropped something massive in the payments world. Their new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), announced in September 2025, is...

The payments industry is witnessing a seismic shift, and it's happening faster than most people realise. Both Visa and Mastercard have...