Samsung Pay

Samsung will also use Checkout.com's Intelligent Acceptance Optimization Engine.

The companies say Samsung Pay will launch through Checkout.com's Flow integration on October 31, giving existing Checkout.com merchants another wallet option for online and in-app checkout.

For merchants, the next question is execution.

how authorization, performance, routing, and checkout reliability hold up at scale.

Today, watch two things.

First, whether Microsoft gives enterprises more operational detail on availability and deployment for its new agent controls.

Second, whether merchants treat Samsung Pay-Through-Flow as a simple checkout addition or a broader opportunity to improve payment performance across markets.

That's your AI Commerce Brief for today.

And Vitalik Buterin said the industry should take AI-accelerated mathematics seriously, while warning users against rushing into wallet migrations.

On a more constructive note, Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support USDC transfers on Solana for cross-border remittances, starting in the last week of October for users on US Galaxy devices.

It will be built directly into Samsung Wallet with fiat on and off-ramps, not a separate crypto app.

Then there's a mystery buyer.

Now, I've been in this kind of technical area of change with money movement my whole career, guys.

I was there when the check card was introduced in the 90s, which turned into the debit card that we use today, when chip cards were announced and brought into the U.S., where we had to start inserting our card or tapping our card, to mobile wallets, which is Apple Pay, Google, and Samsung Pay, tokenization.

I Every time a new technology could have gone around that network, the network steps in to do it on behalf of the financial institutions.

That's so that we can get uniformity and ubiquitous functionality out to the community at large.

Whether Axis Bank is okay with it or not, I assume they are, but other banks are obviously not okay.

I mean, if you have UPI, why the hell do you need Axis Pay? If you have Samsung Pay, yes, it's convenient, but why the hell do you need Apple Pay? The most important question in all this is why the hell does Apple think that people in India will just give them money freely, huh? They are already charging way too much for their devices in India.

The iPhones, which are basically made in India, are much more expensive in India than they are in the rest of the world.

I've spoken a lot about it.