What Stripe would get by acquiring PayPal

There’s speculation about a potential deal, which could boost Stripe’s merchant appeal and accelerate its agentic commerce strategy. But payment experts also say Stripe could face a bidding war that includes AI companies.

Fincen seeking advisors for panel on modernizing AML

Banks, trade groups and regulators are eligible to join a group convened by Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or Fincen, which will weigh in on anti-money-laundering rules, Bank Secrecy Act modernization and implementation of a recently passed stablecoin bill.

Inside Visa’s quest to go beyond card swipes

Andrew Torre, the card network’s president of Value-Added Services, said demand for security, agentic commerce and better processing are creating demand for technology and consulting.

Trump talks housing, affordability at State of the Union

President Donald Trump talked about institutional single family home ownership and housing affordability, as well as inflation, but left credit card rate caps, debanking and even crypto alone at the State of the Union address.