PayPal Sinks 15% as Stripe and Advent Abandon a $50B Buyout, Affirm Soars 13%

Digital payments names are moving in opposite directions Friday morning, with buy-now-pay-later stocks driven by unrelated single-name catalysts rather than a shared sector driver. The lack of a common thematic narrative suggests the move is more stock-specific than systemic. Net impact appears limited to near-term positioning rather than a broad repricing across payments.