February’s FinTech headlines read like a briefing from the future: entrenched incumbents doubling down on generative AI, big players wiring payments directly into AI assistants, digital banks securing European licences, and stablecoins getting a second act as institutional settlement rails...
Microsoft has begun turning Copilot from a conversational assistant into a direct checkout lane—rolling out Copilot Checkout in the United States with an ecosystem-first, consent-based approach that stitches product discovery, catalog ingestion, and tokenized payment flows into an in-chat...
Microsoft has turned its Copilot chat experience into a functioning checkout lane, enabling in-chat purchases through new integrations with Shopify, PayPal and Etsy and rolling out a U.S.-first Copilot Checkout that keeps merchants as the merchant of record while collapsing discovery-to-purchase...
