18 stories tagged payments, newest first.
346 points by dewey | 159 comments
GNU Taler news post announcing Taler Operations AG in Bochum, which will seek a BaFin e-money licence to operate Taler in Germany after GLS Bank withdrew, and is seeking investors.
35 points by nephihaha | 25 comments
A Yahoo News UK article on why Sweden is moving away from its push toward a fully cashless society.
631 points by evakhoury | 378 comments
A blog post explaining what card networks like Visa and Mastercard do, distinguishing them from card issuers, banks, and payment processors.
470 points by rvz | 277 comments
Reuters report that Stripe and private equity firm Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal, according to sources; the page showed a device verification screen.
531 points by toomuchtodo | 201 comments
The Register article reporting that the UK Government Digital Service replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen for GOV.UK Pay, adding pay-by-bank options.
358 points by wslh | 295 comments
News article from El Ciudadano about Brazil's Pix instant payment system facing pressure from Visa and Mastercard.
1031 points by NewCzech | 868 comments
European Business Magazine article on Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on Visa and Mastercard for its roughly $24 trillion in payments.
375 points by agreeahmed | 209 comments
GitHub repository for Flowglad, an open source payments and billing infrastructure that integrates without webhooks and exposes real-time feature and usage-credit state.
598 points by StrangeSound | 268 comments
Checkout.com blog statement on an extortion incident involving a legacy system, its refusal to pay ransom, and planned investment in cybersecurity research.
760 points by _nvs | 961 comments
Landing page for Tempo, a layer 1 blockchain for payments and stablecoins incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, with a request-access button.
338 points by bilekas | 223 comments
A Quartr Insights article examining how Visa and Mastercard came to form a global duopoly in card payment networks.
370 points by ekmartin | 72 comments
An Increase article explaining ISO 8583, the message format standard used by card networks to process credit card transactions.
531 points by fagnerbrack | 509 comments
Substack post from The Payments Engineer Playbook by Alvaro Duran on practical accounting and ledger design for fintech engineers, drawing on his startup mistakes.
420 points by pseudolus | 339 comments
CNBC news article reporting that the U.S. Justice Department sued Visa, alleging an illegal monopoly over debit payment networks.
1220 points by disgruntledphd2 | 705 comments
A Bits about Money essay by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explaining how credit card rewards programs work and are funded.
419 points by georgehill | 182 comments
Stripe's live dashboard site showing real-time payment volume during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday period, captured while still displaying a booting screen.
533 points by gslin | 206 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.
470 points by pimpl | 250 comments
Blog post by a ChargebackStop engineer describing how he discovered the underground practice of exploiting credit card networks, such as card testing fraud.