PayPal USD (PYUSD) is now issued natively on Polygon through Paxos and made available via the Polygon Open Money Stack, the network’s payments infrastructure for moving money globally.
PayPal is reorganizing Venmo into a separate unit and appoints a handful of new executives to different roles across operations.
The former HP boss, Spanish-American business executive Enrique Lores is now running one of fintech’s biggest names – PayPal. But Spain has its own digital payments superstar, Bizum, and it’s not backing down. Here’s what’s really at stake.
From subscription management to stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure, this week delivered a concentrated burst of fintech news that signals where the industry’s attention and capital is pointing in early 2026. Here are the five stories shaping the conversation.
Nexi, the European PayTech, and PayPal have announced a significant expansion of their partnership, embedding PayPal’s payments ecosystem directly into Nexi’s merchant platform across five EU countries.
Explore the 2026 stablecoin showdown between Apple Wallet and PayPal. Compare fees, usability, and global reach as PayPal expands PYUSD to 70 markets and Apple enables USDC payments via Apple Pay merchant integrations.
The payments giant Mastercard is uniting blockchain networks, crypto exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and traditional banks, including household names like Binance, Circle, PayPal, and Ripple, to bridge on-chain innovation with everyday commerce.
MoonPay launches infrastructure platform to power PYUSD-based stablecoin ecosystem
Global financial services are facing intensified regulatory pressure after a series of high‑profile control failures exposed weaknesses in risk management, compliance and cybersecurity across leading players in digital payments, banking and crypto trading.
When customers are getting weary of hunting coupons and discounts, digitized embedded reward experiences boost their shopping sprees with a bit of gamification magic. A simple act of payment brings out unexpected bonuses, which effectively overthrows the flare of traditional loyalty programs with their predictable structures and onboarding fuss.
PayPal is back in Nigeria after 20 years simultaneously expanding its merchant reach in the UAE. All that without opening any new offices or creating local subsidiaries. Instead, the payment leader uses strategic market partnerships that make global payments work locally.
PayPal will enhance its agentic commerce services by acquiring commerce automation platform Cymbio, that would help the payment giant extend merchant reach across AI-driven shopping environments.
PayPal now offers free DIY federal and state tax filing to U.S. PayPal Debit Mastercard holders via a new partnership with tax tech platform april, helping users simplify tax season and potentially save on preparation costs.
The advent of no-interest installment payments, aka BNPL, has been a life-changing experience for many shoppers worldwide. What used to be an acceptable way to cover the cost of select high-ticket purchases only is now a common payment method for literally everything. Is this utmost payment flexibility a good or bad thing for end consumers […]
Buy-now-pay-later services are seeing record demand this holiday season, signaling continued adoption among consumers and growing interest from institutional lenders.
Revolut just crossed a major milestone: after a secondary share sale backed by big-name investors like Coatue, Fidelity, Nvidia’s NVentures, and Greenoaks, the UK-based fintech was valued at $75 billion. What other fintech companies are showing impressive results this year, and what have they been up to lately?
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