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Hey Payments Fanatic! Stripe just threw a stablecoin party in NYC yesterday at their annual Sessions event—and let’s just say it wasn’t your average fintech update. The headline: Stripe is preparing to apply for a federal trust charter (yes, with the OCC) and a New York trust

Hey Payments Fanatic! Stripe and OpenAI just dropped a payments bombshell: Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT. That means when you ask ChatGPT for product recs, you can now buy—directly in the chat—starting with Etsy sellers and soon 1M+ Shopify merchants like Glossier, Spanx, and SKIMS. No tabs. No clicks.

Hey Payments Fanatic, Solaris just hit “refresh” on its payments backbone. The German embedded finance giant is moving all its SEPA instant payments onto ACI Connetic — a cloud-native platform that bundles A2A payments, card processing, and AI-driven fraud protection in one sleek package. Translation: less spaghetti infrastructure, more speed and

Hey Payments Fanatic, From Buenos Aires to San Francisco, wallets are getting an upgrade. In Argentina, Skrill teamed up with Pomelo to launch a prepaid Mastercard that lets users tap straight into their digital balances for everyday shopping. A simple card, but a big step in making wallets spendable in

Hey Payments Fanatic, Airwallex just planted its flag in the Middle East, and it’s not just dipping a toe in. The Aussie-born FinTech has secured in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for stored value and retail payment services, and also set up its first entity in

Hey Payments Fanatic! Stripe just leveled up again. The FinTech giant’s valuation has climbed to $106.7 billion, topping its 2021 peak of $95B 🤯 That makes it once again one of the most valuable private companies in the world, still choosing to stay private while names like Anthropic and