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Here's How India’s PhonePe Just Made Checkout Frictionless

Here's How India’s PhonePe Just Made Checkout Frictionless

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

Checkout.com and Microsoft Team Up for the AI Commerce Era

Checkout.com and Microsoft Team Up for the AI Commerce Era

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’t

🇨🇴 Colombia Launches Its Own Pix-Style Instant Payments System: BRE-B

🇨🇴 Colombia Launches Its Own Pix-Style Instant Payments System: BRE-B

Hey Payments Fanatic! A big milestone for Colombia 🇨🇴 today as the Banco de la República officially launched BRE-B, the country’s new interoperable instant payments system. It connects banks and digital wallets across Colombia, allowing people and businesses to send and receive money instantly, securely, and around the clock. More

17 Billion Monthly Transactions — UPI’s Unstoppable Rise

17 Billion Monthly Transactions — UPI’s Unstoppable Rise

India’s UPI is absolutely eating the payments world. The country’s homegrown real-time payments system now powers 84% of all digital payment volumes — that’s 17 billion transactions every month 🤯

Stablecoins Everywhere: BVNK Crosses $20B in Volume

Stablecoins Everywhere: BVNK Crosses $20B in Volume

Hey Payments Fanatic! It feels like every day brings another stablecoin headline, and for good reason. It’s the buzzword of the industry right now, and you can bet it’ll dominate the chatter at Money20/20 in Vegas later this month 🤣 Today’s milestone comes from BVNK, which just

Stripe Goes Full Stablecoin Mode: Federal Charter + 4 Big Updates

Stripe Goes Full Stablecoin Mode: Federal Charter + 4 Big Updates

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

Stripe’s Link hits 200M Users 🤯 + AI Shopping Gets Real

Stripe’s Link hits 200M Users 🤯 + AI Shopping Gets Real

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.