Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more

Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger

TikTok is building a way to send money inside DMs

Synchrony wants your Amazon and Walmart store cards inside ChatGPT

Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update

PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

Sachin Bansal’s Navi hires banks for a $315m IPO, four years after his first attempt stalled

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

Etsy is cutting 12% of its staff. It just beat forecasts and launched a $2bn buyback

Revolut is valued at $115bn. Its founder’s new share deal targets $500bn

A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower

Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising “a generation of millionaires”

Visa is buying BioCatch for $2.4 billion because AI scams now cost the global economy $1 trillion a year

From entrepreneur to private markets advocate: Westin Smith’s approach to wealth creation

Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions

Live-shopping app Whatnot is in talks to nearly double its valuation to $20bn

Lava Tokenization Sandbox Gives Electric Blue the Infrastructure for a €500M Rollout in Germany

Shein’s app runs on the tricks the FTC calls ‘dark patterns.’ Now the FTC is investigating.

PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target

Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead

X Money can cut off your account over what you post

A development bank just built a €1.4bn insurer in two years

China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices

Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn

Wise shares tumble after US regulator rejects its trust bank charter bid

Revolut hits $115 billion valuation as it becomes the first global fintech with an Australian banking licence

A 25-year-old just raised $180M to build a US bank from scratch

Samsung launches its first US credit card with Barclays, its deepest move into finance yet

The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say

Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent

OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal

Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins

Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn