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Tackling global expansion with Flow: A conversation with Checkout.com’s Umang Sota

Tackling global expansion with Flow: A conversation with Checkout.com’s Umang Sota

Hey there, Today, we explore how merchants can overcome payment challenges in global expansion. Joining me is Umang Sota, Director of Product at Checkout.com, to discuss how they are helping merchants simplify payments, boost acceptance rates, and conquer global markets. Arthur Bedel: Umang, it’s great to have you

Klarna Launches an Open Standard for Agentic Commerce… Here's Why It Matters

Klarna Launches an Open Standard for Agentic Commerce… Here's Why It Matters

Hey Payments Fanatics! Klarna just launched its Agentic Product Protocol, an open standard designed to make products readable and usable by AI agents. Think scale first. Over 100M products. Around 400M live prices. All structured and standardized across 12 markets. As AI becomes the new shopping interface, this protocol gives

PayPal Lines Up Its Africa Wallet Launch… and the Global Ambition Here Is Hard to Miss

PayPal Lines Up Its Africa Wallet Launch… and the Global Ambition Here Is Hard to Miss

Hey Payments Fanatics! PayPal is getting ready to bring PayPal World to Africa in 2026, and the conversations on the ground are already happening with local FinTech players. The idea is simple but strong. Users keep their local wallet. PayPal handles the cross-border layer. You pay with a PayPal button

Stripe Brings in the Valora Team… and It’s Another Clear Push Into Stablecoin Payments

Stripe Brings in the Valora Team… and It’s Another Clear Push Into Stablecoin Payments

Hey Payments Fanatics! Stripe just brought in the team behind Valora, the mobile wallet built on Celo, to speed up its stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure work. The Valora app stays with cLabs, but its creators are moving inside Stripe to build new payment rails. These are the same people who

EIB Backs Scalapay With €70M… and It’s a Big Signal for Europe’s BNPL Champions

EIB Backs Scalapay With €70M… and It’s a Big Signal for Europe’s BNPL Champions

Hey Payments Fanatics! Scalapay just secured €70 million in Scale-Up Debt financing from the European Investment Bank. This is the first time the EIB has ever financed an Italian unicorn directly. The money goes straight into tech and product expansion. Faster rails. Simpler UX. More flexibility for customers across both

Stripe and Paradigm Launch Tempo, Their New Stablecoin Payments Blockchain ... and the Partner List Says It All

Stripe and Paradigm Launch Tempo, Their New Stablecoin Payments Blockchain ... and the Partner List Says It All

Hey Payments Fanatics! Stripe and Paradigm just opened Tempo to the public. Their stablecoin payments blockchain now comes with partners that no one expected this early. UBS. Deutsche Bank. Cross River. Nubank. Kalshi. Even OpenAI and Anthropic. When banks and AI labs line up behind a payments chain, you pay

Worldline Moves to Sell PaymentIQ… and It Shows Exactly How the Company Is Resetting

Worldline Moves to Sell PaymentIQ… and It Shows Exactly How the Company Is Resetting

Hey Payments Fanatics! Worldline just announced the planned sale of PaymentIQ to Incore Invest for roughly €160M. The company is pushing forward with its refocus on core European payments and trying to streamline everything around its North Star plan. The move is all about simplification and tightening the portfolio. More