Cluj-Napoca-based NTT Data Romania, one of the largest IT services companies in the country, with almost 2,000 employees, has announced creation of a new management structure, following Maria Metz’s decision to step down from the position of chief executive officer for personal reasons as of April 1, 2026.
Forrester says Stripe’s Machine Payments Protocol reflects a shift toward automated transactions, as AI agents remove behavioral barriers that hindered micropayments. Stripe’s newly launched Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) could mark a turning point for micropayments — a long-promised but underutilized use case in crypto and beyond — as AI agents reshape how transactions are made. That’s the key takeaway from newly published analysis by Forrester senior analyst Meng Liu, who argues that MPP may succeed where decades of earlier efforts failed. Introduced earlier this month, MPP enables AI agents to execute transactions automatically, removing the need for human approval at each step. It is described as an open protocol for coordinating payments between AI agents and services. Liu frames this as a structural shift from human-initiated payments to machine-to-machine transactions. Read more