• Synchrony outlined a strategy to position its financing products for “agentic commerce,” where consumers search, compare, decide, and buy within AI-driven conversations.
• Plans include investing in generative engine optimization to improve the visibility of partner financing offers inside AI-led search and shopping experiences.
• The company is working on integrations intended to surface financing information during AI interactions, with future app experiences aimed at delivering financing support within conversational shopping.
• Synchrony is also targeting AI-enabled checkout flows, seeking to keep private label financing usable in emerging AI payment ecosystems through tokenized transactions and secure payment processing.
• Collaboration with retail, platform, and AI partners is expected to help shape standards and security expectations for agent-based payments as AI-assisted purchasing expands.

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