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April 30, 2024 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses with a fiat-to-crypto onramp, now supports the Avalanche C-Chain. Retail users can purchase AVAX directly through Stripe, “removing the need to go through an exchange.” Available to U.S. Stripe’s fiat-to-crypto onramp is “a customizable widget embedded into Avalanche… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced more than 50 new features at its annual user conference, Stripe Sessions, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Last year, Stripe says it had “processed more than $1 trillion in payments for millions of users,… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 5:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced a partnership with URBN to power online and in-person retail payments for Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People, and FP Movement. With Stripe as its primary payments infrastructure, URBN will “introduce a more consistent checkout experience… Read More

March 23, 2024 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced an expansion of its Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) partnership by powering payments for retailers using Just Walk Out technology in Australia and Canada. Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology is “designed to be an effortless shopping experience. The guest enters… Read More

March 15, 2024 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments platform Stripe is now incorporating Apple Pay Later, a buy now pay later (BNPL) service, by default for its merchants. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) revealed its BNPL product in 2022. The announcement immediately caused shares in other BNPL providers to stumble due to the company’s size. Apple… Read More

March 14, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe’s mission is to grow the GDP of the internet. The core idea behind the company—one they endeavor to take very seriously—is that we’re still early in the journey of software-driven innovation, and Stripe is “an applied exercise in thinking through some of the corollaries… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 11:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced a partnership with The Hertz Corporation to power payments for its Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty car rental brands. Hertz explains that it will aim to “unify the majority of its in-person and online payment volume onto Stripe… Read More

February 20, 2024 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that it has been selected by Tokyu to power the multinational conglomerate’s new flat-rate subscription accommodation service. Tokyu oversees more than 200 businesses “across Japan spanning transportation, real estate, and hospitality.” By partnering with Stripe, it will… Read More

January 18, 2024 @ 5:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced its work with Best Buy in order “to help power the retailer’s expansion into prescription health and wellness technology products.” Stripe explains that it “provides the payments infrastructure for Best Buy’s new platform, Wellness.BestBuyHealth.com, a new convenient… Read More

November 30, 2023 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday (BFCM), Stripe processed more than 300 million transactions with “a total payment volume of more than $18.6 billion.” It was reportedly the “largest ever” four-day period on Stripe. A Stripe public microsite “tracked these and a dozen other BFCM… Read More

November 23, 2023 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced a partnership with Alaska Airlines that introduces Tap to Pay on iPhone as the primary checkout option during a flight. Using Stripe, more than 7,000 crew members will be able “to accept contactless payments for food… Read More

November 20, 2023 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vesta, a transaction guarantee platform, announced a partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, in order “to enable a comprehensive fraud prevention and risk protection solution that indemnifies merchants from losses from fraudulent transactions.” Under the partnership, Vesta Payment Guarantee, which “provides 100%… Read More

November 2, 2023 @ 4:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced expanded support for JCB, a card network in Japan and one of the top payment networks in the world. JCB is now available on Stripe “in 39 countries and territories, making it easy for businesses in… Read More

October 19, 2023 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Fintech TrueLayer has joined Stripe’s Payment Element for supporting Open Banking payments. UK’s TrueLayer has reportedly become the first European Open Banking payment solution to be added to Stripe’s Payment Element. This partnership allows Stripe merchants in the United Kingdom and the EU to… Read More

October 12, 2023 @ 6:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, introduced its latest product innovations at Stripe Tour Singapore. Stripe products are positioning businesses of all sizes in Southeast Asia “to take advantage of surging consumer demand in the region for online goods and services.” A recent Stripe… Read More

October 1, 2023 @ 9:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently marked its tenth anniversary serving Irish businesses, “with the release of data revealing widespread, rapid growth in the country’s internet economy.” Over the last decade, conditions for Ireland’s internet businesses “have improved dramatically.” Homegrown startups now “have… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, added new features to its optimized checkout suite to help users increase their revenue by making it easier for their customers to complete a purchase. The optimized checkout suite consolidates years of Stripe research into “a set of… Read More

August 18, 2023 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today published a report showing striking confidence and investment in digital exports, beyond typical trade routes. It finds that a wide cross section of businesses are “planning ambitious expansion into new international markets, from the largest enterprises to… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently announced that Steffan Tomlinson will join the company as chief financial officer. Steffan reportedly has more than 25 years of experience “in the finance industry, most notably with Confluent, Google Cloud, and Palo Alto Networks.” According to… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced a partnership with Google Workspace to power paid appointment bookings with Google Calendar. The new feature, which is built on Stripe Connect and Stripe Checkout, “enables customers to pay for services directly while making a booking on… Read More