IT Home reported on August 15 that, according to (The Wall Street Journal), Stripe and the private equity firm Advent International are in talks with PayPal regarding a potential acquisition.

According to reports, in July this year, Stripe and Advent International made an acquisition offer to PayPal at a price of $60.5 per share (IT Home note: at the current exchange rate, approximately RMB 408.7). This would have valued PayPal at $53 billion (at the current exchange rate, approximately RMB 358.049 billion), but PayPal was not satisfied with the bid.

Before receiving the offer, PayPal’s share price had at one point fallen to its historic low, and its market capitalization was only about $40 billion (at the current exchange rate, approximately RMB 270.226 billion). For comparison, the company’s peak market cap in 2021 had reached around $360 billion (at the current exchange rate, approximately RMB 2.43 trillion).

Currently, both Stripe and PayPal are discussing a higher per-share price. If everything goes smoothly, the deal could be concluded within the next few weeks.

Based on a Reuters report, if Stripe and Anyong Capital succeed in the acquisition, they would each hold 50% of PayPal’s shares. The two companies have no plans to split up PayPal; if the transaction is ultimately completed, Stripe is expected to become one of the world’s largest online payment companies. The total transaction value it would process each year could reach $3.7 trillion (about 2.5 trillion yuan RMB at the current exchange rate).

IT Home’s inquiry of Statista data found that as of January 2026, PayPal’s share of the global online payments market was 41.63%, ranking first; Stripe’s share was 22.73%, ranking second.