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Hey Payments Fanatic! Meta just turned WhatsApp into a checkout counter. At its business summit in Mumbai, the tech giant announced that small businesses can now accept payments directly inside the WhatsApp Business App. With a single tap, merchants can share QR codes, making it easier for customers to pay

Hey Payments Fanatic! Stablecoins just scored another big win. Rain, the stablecoin-native card infrastructure player powering payments in 150+ countries, is teaming up with card-issuing tech company Lithic. Why it matters: By pairing Rain’s stablecoin rails with Lithic’s global processing muscle, the two will make it way easier

Hey Payments Fanatic! Paytm just dropped a big one 👀. Its parent, One 97 Communications, has teamed up with Suryoday Small Finance Bank to launch Paytm Postpaid on UPI — think “buy now, pay later” but for every UPI QR code in India. Here’s how it works: spend today, pay next

Hey Payments Fanatic! Big one from Google yesterday: they launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)—an open framework that lets AI agents securely buy on your behalf across cards, bank transfers, and even stablecoins. With 60+ partners already onboard (think Checkout.com, Adyen, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase, Revolut, and more), it

Hey Payments Fanatic, PayPal just made sending money as easy as dropping a link — literally. With PayPal Links, users can now fire off personalized one-time links in any chat, text, or email to get paid instantly. It’s PayPal meeting people where they already are: in conversations. But the real

Hey Payments Fanatic! QR codes are sooo 2020. In China, it’s all about the tap. Alipay’s Tap! feature has exploded to 200 million users 🤯 since launching just last summer. For context: it crossed the 100M mark in April — so yeah, that’s another 100M onboarded in just five

Hi Payments Fanatic, It’s been years (last time I was in Australia was even before the pandemic — can you believe how fast time is flying?) since I was last down under, and I can’t wait to get back. The FinTech scene in Australia has been buzzing, and this