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Hey Payments Fanatic! PayPal is rolling out its first-ever contactless mobile wallet in Germany this summer. Through the latest PayPal app, users can tap to pay in-store wherever Mastercard contactless is accepted, blending PayPal’s online power with offline shopping. Another first for Europe, PayPal is launching “Ratenzahlung To Go”

Hey Payments Fanatic! Eight of the biggest banks in the Middle East and North Africa are now using JP Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments platform. This week, Qatar National Bank and Saudi National Bank joined the group, adding to a list that already includes banks like First Abu Dhabi Bank,

Hey Payments Fanatic! An interesting and decisive shift is unfolding in commerce this week, as payments giants move in the same direction simultaneously. Following the recent agentic payment launches by Mastercard and PayPal, Visa has introduced Intelligent Commerce, a suite of tools that enables AI agents to make secure and

Hey Payments Fanatic! After attending Money20/20 in Bangkok, I flew straight to Dubai for Token2049 — and it was worth it. One highlight: catching up with Christina Smedley, co-founder of Lightspark, to talk about their latest big news — the new collaboration with Coinbase. Plenty more is coming from Lightspark, and

Hey Payments Fanatic! About 47% European businesses face challenges with late payments. While the reasons vary, fragmented payment systems and slow processing remain key hurdles for SMEs. Against this backdrop, Mollie and Qonto have joined forces to address the issue head-on. Mollie and Qonto have announced a two-way collaboration that

Hey Payments Fanatic! Stripe has opened testing for its new stablecoin product, built on the foundation of Bridge, the payments network it recently acquired for $1.1 billion. CEO Patrick Collison announced the launch on X, describing it as “something we’ve wanted to build for around a decade,” marking