Marcel van Oost

Hey Payments Fanatic! Apple just dropped some fresh news: Tap to Pay on iPhone is going live in five more European countries — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, and Norway. That means merchants from Oslo to Tallinn can now accept contactless payments with nothing more than an iPhone and a supporting iOS

Hey Payments Fanatic! Airlines are moving fast into the “Offer-Order-Settle-Deliver” (OOSD) era of retailing. Think personalized bundles, dynamic pricing, and next-gen ancillary sales. But there’s been one giant weak spot: payments. That’s where CellPoint Digital just stepped in. They launched One Source Orchestration (OSO), the first payment orchestration

Hey Payments Fanatic! Meta just turned WhatsApp into a checkout counter. At its business summit in Mumbai, the tech giant announced that small businesses can now accept payments directly inside the WhatsApp Business App. With a single tap, merchants can share QR codes, making it easier for customers to pay

Hey Payments Fanatic! Stablecoins just scored another big win. Rain, the stablecoin-native card infrastructure player powering payments in 150+ countries, is teaming up with card-issuing tech company Lithic. Why it matters: By pairing Rain’s stablecoin rails with Lithic’s global processing muscle, the two will make it way easier

Hey Payments Fanatic! Paytm just dropped a big one 👀. Its parent, One 97 Communications, has teamed up with Suryoday Small Finance Bank to launch Paytm Postpaid on UPI — think “buy now, pay later” but for every UPI QR code in India. Here’s how it works: spend today, pay next

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