digital commerce
Digital Economy
Mastercard Opens Agentic AI Tools to Merchants by End of June 2026: Build-Test-Deploy AI Agents for Payments and Customer Experience
⚡ Key Takeaways Mastercard is delivering a merchant-facing agentic AI toolkit by end of June 2026, enabling businesses to build,...
Digital Economy
AI vs. AI: How Synthetic Identity Fraud Is Forcing a Payment Security Reset in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Synthetic identity fraud — where AI generates convincing fake personas from blended real and fabricated data —...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria Finance Law 2026: The Certified Cash Register Mandate That Creates a Domestic SaaS Market
⚡ Key Takeaways Law No. 25-17 (Algeria’s Finance Law for 2026, enacted December 14, 2025) mandates that all businesses use...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria’s E-Commerce Consumer Protection Rules: A New Framework for Online Disputes
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s 2026 e-commerce consumer protection framework completes the dispute resolution layer of the digital commerce regulatory stack:...
Digital Economy
Mastercard Agent Pay: Building the Payment Rails for AI Commerce
Mastercard's Agent Pay framework lets AI agents make purchases using tokenized credentials and biometric verification. Fiserv, PayPal, Google already onboard.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Securing Algeria’s E-Commerce Boom: Payment Fraud, Marketplace Scams, and Consumer Trust
The E-Commerce Trust Deficit Algeria's e-commerce market has grown dramatically since 2020, accelerated by pandemic-era behavioral shifts and the gradual rollout of electronic payment infrastructure. The number of registered e-commerce businesses has grown at an average annual
