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April 1, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regpack, a software leader that enables quick and simple automation of billing and other business processes, announced a partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. With Stripe, Regpack will “enable its customers to expand services and receive payments in Euros, Yen and the… Read More

March 16, 2023 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced OpenAI has chosen Stripe to power payments as it “moves to commercialize its groundbreaking ChatGPT and DALL·E generative AI technologies.” Stripe is also “incorporating OpenAI’s new natural language technology, GPT-4, into its products and services.” Peter Welinder,… Read More

March 16, 2023 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a leading Fintech in the payments and transaction sector, has raised $6.5 billion (€6.15 billion) at a $50 billion (€47 billion) valuation. The “Series I” round took a significant haircut from its last round. In 2022, Stripe raised money at a $74 billion valuation. … Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, announced an extended partnership with Stripe in order “to bring Tap to Pay on iPhone to U.S.-based Wix merchants.” This enables Wix merchants “to accept secure, contactless payments directly… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced the expansion of its network tokens and card account updater in partnership with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Together, these features “help businesses protect revenue, increase authorization rates, and reduce the churn that occurs when customers’ credit… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced the launch of Enhanced Issuer Network, a set of partnerships with major US card issuers. Stripe provides secure access “to transaction fraud scores from Stripe Radar, its fraud prevention solution, through an encrypted pathway with issuers including… Read More

January 28, 2023 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe Inc., which is one of Silicon Valley’s most valuable Fintechs, is reportedly getting closer to what might be one of the largest public-market entries in recent times. Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison told company workers that the firm’s executives set a goal of… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe has issued a statement that it has cut 14% of its workforce as the challenging economy of sky-high inflation, rising interest rates, and slowing business activity hits home. Stripe said they expect to return to their February headcount of 7000 employees. In a letter… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe recently announced its general availability in Thailand, where its financial infrastructure platform will “help solve the complex payments issues facing Thai businesses.” Tee Chayakul, Thailand country director at Stripe, said: “Thailand’s digital economy is one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia. However, moving… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 7:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wio Bank PJSC, the region’s first platform bank, has announced a partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, which will “enable SMEs in the UAE to access the power of e-commerce faster and more easily and conveniently.” Through this partnership, Wio Business, the… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that the life insurance and pensions company Irish Life has chosen Stripe as “a strategic payments provider for its Smart Invest app.” The partnership will “make it easier for Smart Invest users to initiate both one-off and… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Focused Labs, a digital transformation consultancy and software development firm,  announced it has joined the Stripe Partner Ecosystem “to help enterprises modernize their payment systems and deliver better customer experiences at check-out.” Focused Labs and Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, will “help customers… Read More

July 15, 2022 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a very popular payments platform and evolving Fintech, has taken a hit on its valuation, echoing other firms that have had to reduce values to raise money. According to WSJ.com, Stripe slashed its private per share price from $40 to $29 or $95 billion… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Capchase has been added to Stripe’s App marketplace so users may gain access to credit. Stripe customers can now access Capchase’s offerings, including Capchase Grow (Recurring Revenue Financing) and Capchase Extend (Expense Financing), directly through Stripe’s interface. Miguel Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Capchase, said… Read More

June 4, 2022 @ 1:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, an international financial infrastructure platform, recently announced that Stripe Terminal is currently available in Singapore, making it convenient for companies to create custom checkout experiences for accepting in-person payments, along with unifying client experience and data across online and in-person transfers. Although selling items… Read More

June 2, 2022 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth and Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced a partnership that “makes Affirm’s Adaptive Checkout available to Stripe users in the U.S. today.” Adaptive Checkout uses Affirm’s smart decision engine “to… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 6:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Stripe has reportedly opened an App Marketplace that’s currently housing up to 50 third-party business apps from vendors such as DocuSign, Dropbox, Intercom, Mailchimp, Ramp, and Xero. As mentioned in the announcement, Stripe Apps aims to make it possible for businesses to customize… Read More

May 7, 2022 @ 5:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, Stripe announced an open banking (or open finance) initiative with Stripe Financial Connections. Stripe laid out its plans explaining they were “enabling businesses to establish direct connections with their customers’ bank accounts that power a wide range of financial processes.” This is… Read More

May 6, 2022 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, has launched Stripe Financial Connections, “enabling businesses to establish direct connections with their customers’ bank accounts that power a wide range of financial processes.” The new service aligns with the Open Banking or Open Finance movement that enables… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, the global payments platform, is partnering with Twitter to enable payments with cryptocurrency. In a blog post on Friday, Stripe said they are introducing crypto payouts for Connect. Stripe Connect is a set of programmable APIs and tools that allow a user to build… Read More