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PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says stablecoins will be key as his company navigates the ‘classic innovator’s dilemma’
Yahoo Finance· 2025-12-18 15:44
When PayPal launched almost three decades ago, the company made its name as one of the world’s first fintechs. Now, PayPal faces a slew of competitors, from the payments colossus Stripe to Big Tech giants like Apple. “One of the challenges when you are at a certain scale and you’ve been around for a while is the very classic innovator’s dilemma,” Alex Chriss, the president and CEO of PayPal, told Fortune. “What you’ve done has worked, and are you constantly thinking about how to disrupt yourself?” Invest ...
How an Apple vet is teaching an old fintech new tricks
Yahoo Finance· 2025-09-23 10:46
Good morning, everyone, it’s finance editor Jeff John Roberts pinch-hitting for Allie. In my day job, I talk to a lot of folks in the fintech and crypto space who are actively disrupting the legacy financial stack. So when MoneyGram reached out to tell me how they are staying competitive in this fast-evolving market, I was skeptical, to say the least. But after speaking with new CEO Anthony Soohoo—who cut his teeth at Apple and led digital transformation initiatives at Walmart and CBS—I came away with a di ...