Reported Stripe-Advent PayPal Offer Puts Payments Concentration in Focus
Stripe and Advent reportedly offered more than $53 billion for PayPal. The still-unconfirmed approach would combine major merchant and consumer payment franchises.
Category: Industry Analysis
Payment Orchestration Is Rewriting the Merchant Payments Stack
Payment orchestration gives merchants a programmable control layer across gateways, acquirers and payment methods. It can improve resilience and bargaining power, but it also concentrates sensitive routing, token and compliance decisions in a new intermediary.