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June 18, 2025 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, the programmable financial services company, introduced over 15 updates for French businesses, many of which leverage AI and stablecoins. These announcements were made at Stripe Tour Paris, the company’s annual conference in France, which “brought together 500 founders, developers, and enterprise leaders.” French businesses… Read More

June 15, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant step toward integrating cryptocurrency into mainstream commerce, Shopify has announced a partnership with Coinbase and Stripe to enable merchants to accept payments in USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar. This collaboration aims to provide businesses with a seamless,… Read More

June 12, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial infrastructure Fintech Stripe announced its acquisition of Privy, a crypto wallet infrastructure startup, marking a significant step in its expansion into the digital asset space. This move, following Stripe’s $1.1 billion acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge earlier in 2025, underscores the company’s commitment to… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 5:13 am By Michael Wong  |  

Aspire, a Singapore-based finance platform for businesses, has integrated with global payment infrastructure provider Stripe to enhance its payment capabilities, allowing users across Asia to accept a wider range of payment methods and improve cash flow management. The integration enables Aspire users to receive payments… Read More

May 28, 2025 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Programmable financial services company Stripe showcased its latest products to accelerate the growth of British businesses, “including a major expansion of its money management capabilities, tools to make it easier to trade internationally, and the world’s first AI foundation model for payments.” UK businesses are… Read More

May 12, 2025 @ 9:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ramp, a corporate card and financial operations platform, will expand its issuing partnership with Stripe, a programmable financial services company, to launch stablecoin-backed corporate cards with fully integrated spend management software. Businesses today face massive hurdles moving money internationally: Payments routinely take five or more business days to settle, each transaction… Read More

May 8, 2025 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe announced new products designed to help businesses harness AI and stablecoins to accelerate their growth. Last year, businesses on Stripe processed “$1.4 trillion in total payment volume—up 38% from 2023 and equivalent to around 1.3% of global GDP.” In aggregate, the revenue that businesses… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 7:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments processing Fintech Stripe has recently announced two significant updates that underscore its objective to advancing financial technology and enhancing user experience. The company has partnered with Visa through its newly acquired stablecoin platform, Bridge, to launch a card-issuing product, and has expanded its AI-powered… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial infrastructure Fintech Stripe, the $70 billion online payment processing firm, has announced a new stablecoin product powered by Bridge, a startup it acquired for $1.1 billion in October 2024. The initiative, shared by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on X, marks the company’s expansion into… Read More

April 24, 2025 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Programmable financial services company Stripe announced a set of payments updates for Japanese businesses and businesses looking to expand into Japan. First, Stripe is making it easier for businesses to “sell to customers in Japan by enabling new payment methods.” Businesses in Japan can accept… Read More

March 27, 2025 @ 6:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, the financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced that CLEAR—an identity verification platform trusted by over 30 million customers—is moving its payments and billing to Stripe. CLEAR is known for its flagship membership, CLEAR Plus, which uses biometrics to “speed up identity verification at airports.”… Read More

March 5, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

February 2025 marked a difficult month for fintech companies (even though tech stocks in general have been seeing downward price pressure as well), with Block (NASDAQ:SQ) – once a major player in the sector—leading the charge downward, plummeting 28% in its steepest decline since 2023…. Read More

March 3, 2025 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the US, the number of publicly listed firms has been on the decline for many years now. The number of public firms listed on the London Stock Exchange has experienced a similar drop in the number of listings. This phenomenon has rattled policymakers in… Read More

February 27, 2025 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a payments and cash management platform used widely around the world, says it will extend an offer to shareholders to purchase stock at a valuation of $91.5 Billion or €87.3 billion. Stripe noted that it is profitable and anticipates this will continue going forward…. Read More

February 10, 2025 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure Fintech for businesses, recently announced that it has finalized its acquisition of Bridge. Zach Abrams, cofounder of Bridge, said via social media: “We closed our acquisition with Stripe. Together we’re scaling digital dollars to businesses everywhere. Stablecoins aren’t the future—they’re already… Read More

January 24, 2025 @ 1:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move that has sent ripples across the fintech and broader financial services sectors, Stripe, the global payment processing giant, announced a reduction in its workforce by 300 employees. Financial infrastructure firm Stripe’s management claimed that this restructuring is reportedly part of a broader… Read More

December 4, 2024 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday (BFCM), Stripe reportedly processed 465 million transactions with a total payment volume of over $31 billion. Stripe claims that it was the “largest ever” four-day period on Stripe. Stripe’s public microsite and custom BFCM machine tracked results in real-time,… Read More

November 17, 2024 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeff Weinstein, a Product Specialist at Stripe, recently announced an innovative development for the AI community. Weinstein noted that Stripe’s launch of a new SDK is specifically designed for AI agents. Today(), @stripe is launching a SDK built for AI agents: – LLMs can call… Read More

October 28, 2024 @ 1:03 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EtherMail founder and CEO Shant Kevonian said Stripe’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a stablecoin API provider, is a pivotal moment in bridging the Web2/Web3 divide. Kevonian said the move is the latest step in the ongoing convergence of the crypto and fintech markets –… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Stripe has reportedly acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, according to an update shared via social media by tech industry entrepreneur Michael Arrington. As mentioned in the announcement, this deal notably makes it Stripe’s largest acquisition to date, and also one of the… Read More