payments

4 posts tagged payments, newest first.

Aug 29, 2026

Agentic wallets: when your money gets an API

AI agents can now book, buy and pay. The missing piece was a wallet they can actually control. Here is the market being built around agentic payments, and where I think it goes.

Payments PM interview questions I actually ask, with a dark payment card motif

Aug 24, 2026

Payments product manager interview questions, from talking to fellow PMs

Fifteen questions that come up in real payments PM interviews, what each one is testing and what strong answers sound like. Gathered from comparing notes with fellow payments PMs.

Aug 19, 2026

Fintech in emerging markets plays by different rules

Most fintech writing assumes a US context: cards everywhere, trust by default, one currency. Across MENAP the defaults flip. Here's what actually changes when you build where cash is the incumbent and mobile is the front door.

A cancellation confirmation screen that reads Fine, you're cancelled. Signing up took 1 click, cancelling took 14 clicks and 5 guilt trips. That gap is the dark pattern.

Jul 8, 2026

The subscription dilemma: when recurring revenue starts eating the product

Subscriptions fund great products, then quietly tempt teams to make them worse. How recurring revenue degrades experience, who gets it right and a playable dark pattern that proves the point.

payments

Agentic wallets: when your money gets an API

Payments product manager interview questions, from talking to fellow PMs

Fintech in emerging markets plays by different rules

The subscription dilemma: when recurring revenue starts eating the product

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