Advent and Stripe have walked away from a $50B+ bid for PayPal, one of the largest leveraged buyouts ever contemplated;…
Your Next Customer Is an AI Agent — Can It Even Find You?
As agentic commerce scales from ~$8B to a projected ~$3.5T by 2031, the question for merchants flips: is your store…
The Storefront With No Website: Selling Inside a Telegram Channel
The Storefront With No Website: Selling Inside a Telegram Channel “A shop needs a website.” It does not. You can…
Reconciliation and Identity Automation Move to the Front of the Payments Budget
New PYMNTS Intelligence data with Plaid shows firms are prioritising reconciliation (70%) and identity/KYC automation (65%) over the pay button…
The 2027 Payments Map: Wallets, Pix, UPI and the End of Card-Default
Global e-commerce heads from $6.88T to $7.38T in 2027, digital wallets have already passed cards, and the growth is in…
The Real Race in AI Commerce Isn’t the Shopper’s Agent — It’s Whether Yours Can Be Bought
Banks and card networks (Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay) are building rails so AI agents can transact with verified…
Synchrony Brings Store Cards Into ChatGPT as Agentic Commerce Arrives
Synchrony, issuer of Amazon/Walmart/Lowe’s store cards, is partnering with OpenAI so shoppers can buy inside ChatGPT with store-branded cards. Full…
Stripe Buys OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion, Merging AI Routing With Payment Rails
Stripe has finalized a $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter, an AI model gateway giving developers one access point to 400+ models.…
Before AI Runs the Bank, It Changes the Plumbing
As AI shifts from copilots to agents, the question moves from assistance to execution: where can systems be trusted to…
Private Crypto Payments Under $1,000: Where Can You Actually Transfer and Pay?
The $1,000 line recurs across crypto regulation — FATF’s default Travel Rule threshold, the EU’s enhanced-due-diligence trigger for self-hosted wallets…
The Walls Are Closing: Crypto’s Legal Shift and the New Anti-Laundering Hurdles
Crypto’s early pseudonymity is being squeezed out where it meets the regulated financial system. The FATF Travel Rule (now enacted…
The First Enterprise-Grade Python E-Commerce Platform With Native iOS and Android Frontends — AI in the Core, Ready to Sell Today
Python has great commerce backends but almost nobody ships the whole thing: an enterprise-tested Python e-commerce platform that already includes…