Most payment integrations still look like 2015 - custom code per platform, months-long builds. The Model Context Protocol turns MxN integrations into M+N, and payment platforms are starting to ship it. The promise is real; so are the enterprise security gaps.
Fraud-prevention AI demos dazzle, then meet reality - the bank's wire, ACH, card, and instant-rail data live in separate systems. A model that cannot see the whole customer cannot catch a fraudster who moves across all of them.
A build note from a RAG document system tested on real content. The retrieval was the easy part; the document lifecycle - incremental add/delete and domain separation - was the real work.