Tagged: financial infrastructure

June 3, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced a new charge card program for Stripe Issuing, Stripe’s commercial card issuing product. With the addition of charge cards, fintechs and platforms can “create and distribute virtual or physical charge cards that allow their customers to… Read More

May 22, 2023 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently announced that it is partnering with Airbnb in order “to power bank payments for Airbnb guests.” Airbnb guests can now use Stripe Financial Connections “to securely and instantly add their bank account as a payment method.” Once… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today unveiled Stripe Reader S700 to help businesses bring their online and in-person payments experiences closer together than ever before. The new, Android-based smart reader is “part of Stripe Terminal, a set of developer interfaces, pre-certified card readers,… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced an expanded global partnership with Uber Technologies, Inc. Uber will significantly “expand its use of Stripe’s payments platform, including in the US, to reduce costs and give customers more flexible ways to pay for Uber Rides and… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that its suite of unified commerce solutions is now available in Australia, “including Stripe Terminal with Tap to Pay on Android for in-person contactless payments.” In Australia, over three-quarters of consumer payments are “made with cards.” By… Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, released its annual letter from Cofounders John and Patrick Collison. The letter “takes stock of Stripe’s business, reflects on the past year, and shares the Collisons’ views on the trends shaping the online economy.” Collectively, businesses built on… Read More

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

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 14, 2023 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In line with the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, and Chairman of the Central Bank of the UAE’s (CBUAE) Board of Directors, the CBUAE launched its Financial Infrastructure Transformation Program (FIT program)… 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

September 25, 2022 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CommentSold, the  live video commerce solution enabling retail businesses to unlock sales growth through live selling, announced the launch of its point of sale (POS) system built on Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. This addition to CommentSold’s suite of solutions for retailers “gives… 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

May 25, 2022 @ 5:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fundbox recently announced that its working capital platform is now embedded “within Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.” A key player in providing embedded working capital solutions for B2B sellers, Fundbox’s collaboration with Stripe is “the first of many new integrations to come as… Read More

April 20, 2022 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, recently announced that James Phillips will be joining as President of Financial Services. James joins Stripe after spending about a decade working at Microsoft where he “helped scale the Digital Transformation Platform Group.” At Microsoft, James led… Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stronghold, a payments and financial infrastructure firm, has introduced Stronghold Capital in order to invest $100 million in high-potential firms and funds across key areas: “overlooked” and “underrepresented” founders as well as fund managers, the payments and fintech ecosystem, and the Web3 / blockchain sector…. Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stitch is building the financial infrastructure to support Africa’s Fintech industry. Stitch has raised $21 million via an investment round led by The Spruce House Partnership, along with contributions from PayPal Ventures, TrueLayer, firstminute capital, The Raba Partnership, CRE Venture Capital, Village Global, Zinal Growth… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 3:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech firm Modulr reveals that they’ve managed to secure their Visa Ready certification, which supports customers in selecting the “best of breed payment solutions” that meet Visa’s international standards. As noted in an update from Modulr, the extended collaboration with Visa will help with… Read More