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Hey Payments Fanatic! One year after launching stablecoin payments, Stripe is now adding support for subscription-based payments in stablecoins, built for the 30% of its businesses with recurring revenue models. This means that Stripe's businesses can now: * Accept subscription payments directly from customers’ crypto wallets, with automatic

Hey Payments Fanatic! Meet the Trusted Agent Protocol, Visa’s new framework to verify whether an AI shopping assistant browsing your site is legit or a malicious bot. AI-driven traffic to U.S. retail websites is up 4,700% in just one year, and merchants are struggling to tell

Hey Payments Fanatic! Big news from the heart of Europe: Luxembourg is next in line to join the Wero revolution 🇱🇺 Payconiq International, Buckaroo, and the European Payments Initiative (EPI) just inked a strategic deal to clear the runway for Wero’s 2026 launch in Luxembourg. The move will see Payconiq’

Hi Payments Fanatic! In just two weeks, one of the biggest FinTech event of the year, Money20/20 Las Vegas, kicks off. I’ll be there catching up with industry friends, and no doubt, so will you.  Events like this are invaluable. But here’s the truth: for brands, visibility

Hey Payments Fanatic! India 🇮🇳 just did it again. The country’s payments powerhouse — NPCI — just teamed up with Razorpay and OpenAI to launch a pilot that lets users shop directly inside ChatGPT, powered by UPI. Yep, you can now chat your way to checkout. 0:00 /0:53 1× It’

Hey Payments Fanatic! Big moves from India’s payments giant PhonePe today, and they’re all about making checkout friction a thing of the past. At the Global FinTech Festival in Mumbai, PhonePe teamed up with Mastercard to roll out device tokenisation across its payments gateway. That means customers can

Hey Payments Fanatic! When Big Tech meets FinTech, things move fast. Checkout.com just inked a multi-year deal with Microsoft, moving its global payments engine onto Azure’s cloud — a major play to boost performance, security, and scalability for enterprise clients like eBay, Klarna, and ASOS. The partnership isn’