Bolt has cut at least a third of its workforce amid reports of financial pressures. The move by the one-click checkout startup was first reported Sunday (April 5) by FinTech Business Weekly, with the company later confirming the layoffs and the one-third figure in conversations...
Digital payments have traditionally been a story of interfaces. Whether tapping a connected device or sending money through a platform’s API, the experience has been designed around the human intentions of clicking, confirming and completing a transaction. On Thursday (April 2), those legacy payments got...
The x402 protocol, a universal standard created by Coinbase to facilitate agentic payments, is moving to the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on open source. The Linux Foundation is launching the x402 Foundation, which will serve as the neutral home for x402 and as the governing body for the standard,...
Interoperability is moving from technical aspiration to what looks to be a defining feature of peer-to-peer payments, as digital wallets evolve from simple payment tools into the infrastructure through which money circulates. The early promise of wallets rested on speed and convenience. The work in...
PicPay, the Brazilian digital payments firm, is increasingly leaning on artificial intelligence to manage its rapid scale. The Brazilian digital payment firm discussed this effort Wednesday (March 18) as it reported its first quarterly earnings since going public earlier this year. Those results showed a...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Thales’ Arjen Hollander Digital payments innovation rarely advances in lockstep, and the divergence is becoming more pronounced as regulation, technological readiness and consumer habits pull markets along distinct trajectories. Speaking with PYMNTS TV, Arjen Hollander, VP of Strategic Partnerships...
The construction industry builds skylines, bridges and critical infrastructure, yet its own critical financial infrastructure often runs on outdated payment practices. Findings in the February 2026 edition of the B2B and Digital Payments Tracker® Series from PYMNTS Intelligence reveal that roughly 70% of contractors and subcontractors report...
Klarna’s flexible payment options will soon be available for purchases initiated by artificial intelligence (AI) agents at U.S. merchants that offer Klarna through Stripe. This capability will be enabled by Stripe’s Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), a payment tool built for agentic commerce, the companies said in a Tuesday (March...
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Paymentus’ Nicole Haskins The FinTech landscape has overindexed on innovation. But in an operational landscape defined by automation, predictive analytics, and invisible payments, the most important innovation in financial technology may ultimately be an attitudinal one. “My word...