{"id":55664,"date":"2026-03-04T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/the-finansers-week-23rd-february-1st-march-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:10:04","slug":"the-finansers-week-23rd-february-1st-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/the-finansers-week-23rd-february-1st-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finanser\u2019s Week: 23rd February \u2013 1st March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s main discussions include \u2026 Stripe buying PayPal? Wow! Two headlines really struck me this morning. The first is that Stripe is now valued at over $150 billion \u2013 I\u2019ve been following Stripe\u2019s valuations for over a decade (it was just over $9 billion in 2016) \u2026 \u2026 and the second is that they&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/2026\/03\/the-finansers-week-23rd-february-1st-march-2026\/\">The Finanser\u2019s Week: 23rd February \u2013 1st March 2026<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefinanser.com\/\">Chris Skinner&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s main discussions include \u2026 Stripe buying PayPal? Wow! Two headlines really struck me this morning. The first is that Stripe is now valued at over $150 billion \u2013 I\u2019ve been following Stripe\u2019s valuations for over a decade (it was just over $9 billion in 2016) \u2026 \u2026 and the second is that they&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}