Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

	Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources(reuters.com)
	484 points by rvz 57 days ago \| 299 comments
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	HN Discussion: •Merger would create antitrust concerns due to massive market concentration in online payments ↓Consolidation reduces options for merchants and increases risk of account flagging with no alternatives ↓Stripe's stricter content policies will hurt vendors currently served by PayPal ↑Legacy payment processors are declining anyway due to direct bank-to-retailer payment systems •Large mergers historically create years of organizational limbo, questioning Stripe's strategy shift