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As AI search gains traction, Apple hints it won’t stay Google’s passive partner—potentially redrawing the future of search, ads, and browser dominance.

It wants to become a one-stop shop for businesses and consumers alike

Alleged conflict of interest: Elon Musk just struck a deal with Visa to offer a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment service. This raises questions about the advantages Musk will have as a competitor to banking and payments firms, especially with a newly weakened regulatory environment.

Digital ad spending in the payments industry is set to surge as consumers start to get through the financial headwinds of the past few years. We look at where payment providers should focus their ad spend to maximize returns.

The UK is a world leader in mobile commerce. How can brands and retailers succeed in a competitive market?

Agent Pay could transform the payments experience for consumers with hyperpersonalized recommendations

As consumers turn to fintechs and payment providers for timely, solution-based support, banks are losing relevance. Staying in the game means shifting from product pushing to customer-led journeys.

PayPal Ads offers unique ad targeting via transaction data: Access to PayPal’s 400 million users aims to transform digital advertising for small and medium-sized businesses.

This varies across types of financial products, with more consumers seeing content on credit cards and digital wallets than any other product. Still, the wide overall reach shows that social media reviews and recommendations from creators are now commonplace and effectively bring awareness to financial products.

Visa will also expand the offering to more use cases—like gig, creator, and marketplace payouts—and to more digital wallets, neobanks, and payment apps. Will it succeed? Visa+ solves many of the participating wallets’ pain points. Interoperability has been missing from the P2P space, causing friction for consumers. But Visa+’s convenience and simplicity can lead to greater use.

Digital wallets will approach half of POS transaction value share by 2027.

B2B payments are fast becoming the biggest opportunity for stablecoins to gain traction—now PayPal has to convince everyone else.

Digital wallet. The partnership will also help drive more volume through the Venmo and PayPal apps, which may also increase engagement—something the firm has been working on improving. The firm’s transactions per active account—which it uses as an engagement metric—grew 13% YoY in Q4. Braintree. Live Nation will help bolster Braintree’s processing volume.

This can help the POS provider attract a wider range of customers and cross-sell other features

In the wake of slowing remittance volume, the company’s financial media network can help it diversify and boost revenues

The company’s acquisition spree could help accelerate growth despite an uncertain economic climate

Commerce media is expanding in terms of numbers of players, but ad spend patterns remain the same.

The BNPL provider is racking up partners in a major expansion push before its now-delayed IPO