Agentic commerce is steadily rewiring how digital transactions occur. Instead of shoppers manually navigating screens, entering credentials and approving each step, intelligent software agents are beginning to select products, optimise pricing and initiate payment on the user’s behalf.

In that environment, the long-maligned guest checkout flow is gaining fresh relevance—not as a stopgap, but as a structurally efficient payment model.


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Biometric Update: Passkeys in the post-quantum era: Why FIDO needs more than new algorithms

By Johann-Philipp Thiers, Security Specialist at Swissbit. Passkeys have become one of the most tangible examples…

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World Economic Forum: Why trust in AI agents requires open global standards

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Biometric Update: Singapore expands Singpass passkeys to Android users

Singapore’s digital identity system Singpass has added passkey login to Android devices, the Government Technology…

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