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Now the question is whether regulators allow it og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Talks between Stripe/Advent International and PayPal have shifted from a rejected $60.50/share offer toward active negotiation of a higher price, with a deal potentially announced within weeks. A combined company would process about $3.7 trillion annually across Stripe's merchant-side volume and PayPal's 440 million consumer accounts. A Mergermarket regulatory assessment says antitrust review by the FTC or DOJ would likely require divesting Venmo or Braintree rather than blocking the deal outright, since it would merge both sides of the digital payments market. European filings remain unaddressed publicly despite the scale likely triggering EU thresholds. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why might regulators require PayPal to sell Venmo or Braintree in a Stripe acquisition deal? A combined Stripe-PayPal entity would own both sides of the digital payments market: the merchant infrastructure Stripe provides and the consumer wallets PayPal and Venmo operate. An antitrust partner at White & Case described this as combining two sides of the digital payment player market, which regulatory analysis says makes divesting Venmo or Braintree the most likely path to clearance, rather than blocking the deal entirely. _Track how antitrust reviews reshape major fintech mergers by following the deal on daily.dev._ ### How much would a merged Stripe and PayPal process annually in payments? A combined Stripe and PayPal would handle approximately $3.7 trillion a year, with Stripe processing roughly $1.9 trillion on the merchant side and PayPal and Venmo covering more than 440 million consumer accounts on the other. Stripe and Advent International would hold equal stakes as joint owners, with no stated plans to break PayPal up. _daily.dev helps readers weighing payment platform consolidation stay on top of fintech deal coverage._ ### What price did PayPal reject before entering renewed acquisition talks with Stripe? PayPal's board rejected a $60.50-per-share offer from Stripe and Advent International, worth more than $53 billion with roughly $50 billion of committed bank financing, calling it too low. Shares jumped about 19% to $56.60 after the rejection, and PayPal's CEO later cited a $70 price target from Cantor Fitzgerald while negotiations continued toward a higher offer. _Developers evaluating payment platform stability can follow how the pricing saga resolves via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PayPal says it’s ‘becoming a technology company again.’ That means AI.](https://daily.dev/posts/paypal-says-it-s-becoming-a-technology-company-again-that-means-ai--vdhm4pmhx) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [Stripe publishes 2025 annual letter and announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees](https://daily.dev/posts/stripe-publishes-2025-annual-letter-and-announces-tender-offer-to-provide-liquidity-to-current-and-f-amogf4f6n) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#fintech](https://daily.dev/tags/fintech), [#stripe](https://daily.dev/tags/stripe), [#paypal](https://daily.dev/tags/paypal) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/paypal-is-no-longer-refusing-to-sell-now-the-question-is-whether-regulators-allow-it-l6yxrigfe) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. 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