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Adyen H1 2026 Financial Report: €803.8B Processed Volume, Take Rate Drops to 16.2 bps, Testing 20 Years of Pricing Discipline

Adyen H1 2026: Net revenue of €1.30B (up 19% YoY, 21% constant currency), processed volume of €803.8B (up 24%), take rate compressed to 16.2 bps after the first tiered pricing in the company's 20-year history—around €48M in revenue forgone—plus its first two acquisitions ever (Talon.One for €750M and Orb for ~€310M), EBITDA margin of 49.2%, tracked line-by-line through a public Beancount ledger.

PayPal and Venmo Are Finally Talking: What the End of Visa+ Means for Freelancers Before February 2026

Starting February 19, 2026, Visa+ stops working for PayPal and Venmo transfers and is replaced by direct phone-number payments rolling out November 2025. With the 1099-K threshold falling to $600 in 2026, freelancers must tag inter-app transfers correctly, reconcile gross versus net per platform, and separate business from personal flows to avoid double-counting income.

Agentic Commerce Has Arrived: How to Book and Reconcile Sales Made by AI Shopping Agents

AI agents now check out on a customer's behalf over the same card rails, so an agentic sale books like any card sale — but the payout looks identical to a normal one unless you tag it. A merchant's guide to channel tags, gross-vs-net payout splits, storing intent and cart mandate IDs, daily reconciliation, and the product-data hygiene agents actually read.