Marcel van Oost

Hey Payments Fanatic! Big one from Google yesterday: they launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)—an open framework that lets AI agents securely buy on your behalf across cards, bank transfers, and even stablecoins. With 60+ partners already onboard (think Checkout.com, Adyen, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase, Revolut, and more), it

Hey Payments Fanatic, PayPal just made sending money as easy as dropping a link — literally. With PayPal Links, users can now fire off personalized one-time links in any chat, text, or email to get paid instantly. It’s PayPal meeting people where they already are: in conversations. But the real

Hey Payments Fanatic! QR codes are sooo 2020. In China, it’s all about the tap. Alipay’s Tap! feature has exploded to 200 million users 🤯 since launching just last summer. For context: it crossed the 100M mark in April — so yeah, that’s another 100M onboarded in just five

Hi Payments Fanatic, It’s been years (last time I was in Australia was even before the pandemic — can you believe how fast time is flying?) since I was last down under, and I can’t wait to get back. The FinTech scene in Australia has been buzzing, and this

Hi Payments Fanatic! Summer’s officially in the rearview mirror, which can only mean one thing in our world: conference season is heating up. My calendar is still a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, but one piece is locked in—FinTech Meetup in Las Vegas, March 30–April 1. Why

Hi Payments Fanatic, Remittances to Morocco 🇲🇦 just hit the fast lane. Thunes has switched on real-time payments into Moroccan bank accounts, giving its global network instant access to one of Africa’s biggest remittance hubs (we’re talking $11.5B in inflows last year). For expats, speed is everything — 65%