Blimey. @flatpay is recruiting for the US. Fancy being sales manager for New York? $90-108K basic + unlimited commission. builtin.com/job/sales-manage…

Blimey. Well-intentioned efforts to use the UK Post Office network to maintain access to cash spark a money-laundering boom. theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…

This is going to be fun.

My only comment on Stripe/PayPal is that the EU competition authorities will take a good look at this. There will be major concerns in Germany where PayPal is the leading online checkout.

Hat tip to Nopan - raising €7.23m to bring card-style payment optimisation tools to A2A and wallets. Nopan is based in Amsterdam, founded by former Netflix payments execs and already has its regulatory licence. tech.eu/2026/07/14/former-ne…

Love this. @caixabank makes benches from recycled bank cards and puts them in towns visited by its mobile bank branch. caixabank.com/en/headlines/n…

I'm shocked that a Trump-linked no KYC crypto card was marketed to help people evade sanctions. Nobody could have expected this. fintechbusinessweekly.substa…

And about time too. Frankly, it was quite crazy that the UK government promoted the sale of its core payment infrastructure to Mastercard in the first place. ft.com/content/11179162-c279…

I missed this last week. Trump turned off Visa and Mastercard in Cuba. You can see why European's are nervous. reuters.com/world/americas/c…

Several German payment executives charged in connection with Operation Chargeback - an investigation in alleged handling of fraudulent transactions. Prosecutors say criminals made more than €300 million by signing cardholders to fake porn, dating sites. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Land of the free. Home of the brave etc. Rhode Island insists one worker for each three self-checkout machines in grocery. paymentsdive.com/news/rhode-…

News from France. Just two years after establishing a merchant services JV with @WorldlineMS, @CreditAgricole is taking full control of the business. The timing is interesting. The JV just got its PI licence. worldline.com/en/home/top-na…

Revolut’s should do well with payment acceptance but the 2025 Annual Report says little. Merchant acquiring tripled volume but we don’t know the numbers. 4.8m people used Revolut Pay at checkout in 2025 but we don’t know how often or how much they spent.

Payment providers keep talking product when they should prioritise brand, pricing and customer service. Some timely research from KAE. thepaypers.com/payments/inte…

Hat tip to paymove, based in Poland, which has raised a further €2m to take its QR-based unattended POS payment proposition to Spain, Portugal and Italy. Paymove has built a good position with car parking (a very tricky sector) in its home market. therecursive.com/polish-paym…

I'm co-hosting some Fintech drinks in London on 16 July alongside the capital's leading substackers. Join me Matt Jones, Jas Shah, Mike Chambers and Andrew Marshall for independent commentary, conversations and unparalleled networking. luma.com/fy0kjbqc

I’m a huge fan of B2B brand building so hat tip to @Checkout for the new campaign. Payment companies should learn from the best - there’s no reason to be less interesting than Salesforce, Adobe etc. youtu.be/iW_s_S-Y9V4?si=goHH…

Hat tip to Nepting - French POS retail platform raising money for international expansion. We need more independent multi-processor solutions because there aren't many left in the market. lalettrem.fr/actualites/five…

Fake post and fake comments do not make a reputation. I'm reminded of the old Soviet adage "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." restofworld.org/2026/virtual…

Buy now. Pay maybe. What could possibly go wrong? Uses stablecoins. Natch. marketwatch.com/story/buy-no…