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Key insight: PayPal’s board of directors is reportedly unimpressed with Stripe and Advent International’s $53 billion offer to buy the company.  What’s at stake: Analysts had speculated that the offer may be low, despite the fact that it came in at a 30% premium compared with other merchant processors.  Forward look: In addition to providing…

Asia-Pacific’s real-time payment systems are moving beyond domestic transfers as countries look to connect national infrastructure across borders. The September 2026 PYMNTS Intelligence Real-Time Payments World Map, produced in collaboration with The Clearing House, shows that work taking two forms. Five countries are pursuing a common framework for connecting domestic instant payment systems, while India…

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Businesses can move money faster than ever. Their customers, however, may still need to navigate a maze of messages, portals, passwords and payments pages before that money starts moving. The disconnect is creating a largely invisible revenue leak for consumer lenders, utilities and other companies that depend on recurring customer payments. “Payments is not the…

Gary Stevenson, a gobby former City trader turned socialist firebrand, known for his advocacy of a wealth tax and “for dressing like a 16-year-old scally despite being a 39-year-old man”, as Christopher Snowdon puts it in The Critic, was briefly all over the news during the silly season, when Parliament was in recess, and there…

In an aerial view, farmers use combine harvesters to harvest a wheat field near the city of Bila Tserkva on August 4, 2023 in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Ed Ram | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia and Ukraine continue to attack one another’s port infrastructure, blocking shipments from the “breadbasket of Europe” and driving…