Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53B
rvz
17 points
8 comments
July 15, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
digitaltrees
Trying to create a monopoly before the lack of antitrust enforcement window closes.
chirau
That would be quite a play. Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, Xoom all under one umbrella. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) for online card-not-present (CNP) checkout on that is going to be absurdly high and this will take a lot of convincing to beat antitrust. They will probably have to unwind Venmo and Braintree.
goofy_lemur
I mean less competition is probably not good for anyone.
lobito25
2 poo companies
mertbio
Paypal is quite popular in Germany but with Wero that popularity will decrease significantly. I expect that all around the Europe.