• Stripe considers acquiring some or all of PayPal: Report Bloomberg reports that Stripe is in early acquisition talks with PayPal as the payments giant has battled competition, leadership turmoil and an 85% stock drop from its peak. • Cointelegraph in your social feed Payment processing firm Stripe is reportedly considering an acquisition of all or parts of its rival PayPal Holdings. • Stripe is in early talks and has expressed preliminary interest in PayPal or parts of its business, though no deal is guaranteed, Bloombergreportedon Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. • Stripe, which enables enterprises to accept payments, make payouts, and automate financial processes,saidon Tuesday that it was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer to shareholders and employees, a 74% jump from a year ago. • PayPal has reportedly been struggling to compete with Google Pay and Apple Pay, which are embedded in consumer smartphones. • Stripe president John Collison told Bloomberg that “PayPal has had, obviously, a tough time over the past few years, and the landscape has changed quite a bit with Apple Pay and Google Pay and everything like that.” “I can’t talk about any, you know, M&A [mergers and acquisitions] hypotheticals, but they’ve definitely had a tough time,” he added.

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  • Stripe is reportedly exploring a potential acquisition of all or part of PayPal Holdings, according to Bloomberg. Early talks are underway, but no deal is confirmed. Stripe, valued at $159 billion after a tender offer, sees PayPal as a strategic target amid PayPal’s recent struggles against Apple Pay and Google Pay and its leadership change, with Enrique Lores set to replace Alex Chriss. PayPal’s stock rose 6.7% on the news but has fallen nearly 20% year‑to‑date and 85% from its 2021 peak. Both firms are expanding into stablecoins-PayPal’s PYUSD and Stripe’s Bridge-potentially adding a crypto dimension to a merged entity.

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