Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up?
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If Adyen bakes agentic workflows directly into acquiring and orchestration, the payment rail itself becomes the agent platform. Early-stage fintechs need to decide fast whether they’re a thin UX layer on top of this, or building differentiated agents around niche data and risk models.
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