{"id":315604,"date":"2026-02-25T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315604\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:30:09","slug":"collison-brothers-stripe-eyeing-paypal-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315604\/","title":{"rendered":"Collison brothers\u2019 Stripe eyeing PayPal acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stripe CEO Patrick Collison pictured at the Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin last month. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/42b6ffde-01b9-45b3-afbf-2f4f0374bea7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stripe CEO Patrick Collison pictured at the Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin last month. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Patrick and John Collison\u2019s payment processing firm Stripe is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stripe, which is privately held and is among the industry&#8217;s most valuable companies, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of the digital payments pioneer or its assets, the people said, asking not to be named because the matter is private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The deliberations are still early and there&#8217;s no certainty they&#8217;ll lead to a transaction, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information. A representative for Stripe declined to comment. A representative for PayPal didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">(Bloomberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stripe CEO Patrick Collison pictured at the Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,898,202,80],"class_list":["post-315604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}