Marcel van Oost

Hey Payments Fanatic! Shift4 and Blue Origin have made crypto payments a reality in space. Travelers aboard the New Shepard rocket can now pay with BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, and USDC to cross the Kármán Line. Now back on land, Stripe users can accept Pix via EBANX, letting businesses process

Hey Payments Fanatic! Apple is now facing a lawsuit from Fintiv, which claims the tech giant stole its mobile wallet technology for Apple Pay through confidential meetings and by hiring key employees over the past decade. The lawsuit alleges Apple built a payment enterprise with major financial services companies like

Hey Payments Fanatic! Lately, everyone is going stablecoin. Payments companies, traditional banks, and even tech giants are stepping in. Now it seems to be MetaMask’s turn. A recently deleted governance proposal from the MetaMask community outlined plans for MetaMask USD, or mmUSD, a stablecoin to be issued using Stripe’

Hey Payments Fanatic! Cleo’s Founder and CEO Barney Hussey-Yeo confirmed the AI fintech is exploring stablecoins. “We’re looking at how we can use stablecoins to help improve the banking system for our users,” told Sifted. What does this mean? It may signal Cleo is preparing to move

Hey Payments Fanatic! It’s summer up here (not for you in the Southern Hemisphere 😅), but the payments industry isn’t standing still, there have been some interesting moves: Firstly, The Farewell Stake: Ant Group is set to sell its remaining 5.84% stake in Paytm, ending a long-running

Hey Payments Fanatic! FinTech is not coming to Colombia, it's already there: In just three weeks, Bre-B has crossed 20 million registered payment keys! The payments platform is now connected to +8 million users, that's 15% of the country’s population. As Ana María Prieto