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Key insight: Shopify has added agentic payments capabilities through a partnership with Meta.

DUBLIN/FRANKFURT, Sept 18 (Reuters) – European banks need greater scale and deeper capital markets if they are to compete with US rivals, ‌senior European officials said on Friday, as the European Union looks to strengthen ‌its position in an increasingly competitive global economy.

Walmart’s first-party data platform for merchants and suppliers, Scintilla, is getting a big upgrade next year.

Countries with larger pension systems have deeper capital markets, see chart below. The US sits at nearly 475% of GDP in pension and household investment assets, and above 200% of GDP in market capitalization. Germany, France, Italy and Spain are all well below on both measures.

This push into AI supported, regulated workflows is part of a wider move by many enterprise software and infrastructure providers. It is worth looking at other stocks tied to this build out of AI plumbing and tools through 55 AI infrastructure stocks.

The best AI stocks today may lie beyond giants like Nvidia and Microsoft. Find the next big opportunity with these 19 smaller AI-focused companies with strong growth potential through early-stage innovation in machine learning, automation, and data intelligence that could fund your retirement.

After managing billions, the investor is rejecting the race for a broad portfolio and putting deeper founder support at the center.

An earlier step in that journey was the hiring of Samir Pradhan as VP of product for merchant marketing in November 2025.

The future of work is here. Discover the 37 top robotics and automation stocks leading the charge in AI-driven automation and industrial transformation.

The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm welcome in its IPO debut in May. But French startup Kog is betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs.