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...
Tuesday (Feb. 24) marked a potentially seismic day in the payments industry. Rumors of Stripe’s interest in PayPal emerged after hours on Tuesday, initially reported by the likes of Bloomberg, with implications extend beyond deal mechanics. Stripe and PayPal operate at different but increasingly intersecting...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Paysafe’s Bruce Lowthers Somewhere between the first ticket purchase and the final prop bet, $20.2 billion changed hands. That was the projected spending around this year’s Super Bowl on food, drinks, apparel, tickets, streaming and festivities, with nearly $2...
Visa formed a new sub-region that includes Egypt, Libya and Sudan, saying the move will advance its strategic growth plans in the wider North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. The new sub-region enables Visa to be closer to clients and stakeholders and reinforces its efforts...
Payments firm Ebanx expects Brazil’s instant payment system Pix to account for 45% of the country’s online sales by the end of 2026 and 50% in 2028, Reuters reported Tuesday (Feb. 10). Those shares will be up from 2025, when Pix accounted for 42% of Brazil’s online sales, according to the...
Payments company Block is reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 10% of its staff. The firm has been informing hundreds of employees that their positions could be eliminated during their yearly performance reviews amid a wider business overhaul, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Feb. 7), citing...
European payments sovereignty moved back to the top of the policy agenda Thursday (Jan. 29) as European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro would provide the retail payments infrastructure the euro zone currently lacks, per Reuters. Speaking at a...
The first half of the 2020s didn’t just accelerate payments and commerce. It stress-tested every assumption the industry carried into the decade — and forced leaders to decide, in real time, what to keep, what to kill and what to rebuild. That is the premise...