Teen Banking App Startup Gets $22.5M In Funding
Step, a finance startup aimed at teens, has raised $22.5 million in a funding round led by Stripe, according to a report. Step builds mobile banking services for teens who are more comfortable with...
View ArticleVisa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News
Yes, the weekend has arrived! We don’t know about you, but it was a busy week for PYMNTS, given all the news coming from the worlds of payments and commerce. Review our coverage, including stories...
View Article‘Scattered Canary’ BEC Scams Aim At US Firms
Business enterprise compromise (BEC) scams are crossing borders, where fraudsters in Africa are targeting U.S. firms. As reported by Threatpost, earlier this month, researchers in London identified a...
View ArticleStripe Makes Terminal Available Across The US
Stripe has announced that Stripe Terminal, a set of SDKs, APIs, and pre-certified card readers that lets users accept in-person payments, is now available all over the United States, according to a...
View ArticleHow To Build A High-Performing Platform Payments Fraud Team
In recent years, no type of business has expanded globally at the pace and scale of digital platforms. If there is a sine qua non to the growth of platforms like Airbnb, eBay and Uber, it is the...
View ArticleXero, Stripe Team On Small Biz Payments
Small business platform Xero has announced a partnership with Stripe to work on small business payments innovations. The companies will develop new tools that aim to help small businesses get paid...
View ArticleCoupa Taps PayPal, Stripe, Others For B2B Payment Upgrades
Coupa is enhancing its B2B payments solution Coupa Pay with the help of several top players in the payments space. On Wednesday (June 26), Coupa announced partnerships with PayPal, Stripe, Citi and...
View ArticleManageCasa, Stripe Link For Property Management Payments Platform
ManageCasa, a property management platform for landlords and property managers, and Stripe, a popular platform for online payment processing, have teamed up for a new digital payments solution for the...
View ArticleHow Joe Coffee Brings Mobile Order-Ahead To Independent Coffee Shops
Nationwide coffee chains are competing to cut themselves a larger share of the $45.4 billion U.S. coffee market, ensuring their mobile order-ahead apps and rewards programs entice customers to come to...
View ArticleStripe Opens Office In Mexico City
Payments startup Stripe has announced that it’s opening up an office in Mexico City to take advantage of opportunities for growth in the Latin American region, according to a report by CNBC. Stripe...
View ArticleTech Glitch Halts Card Processing For Some Mexico Merchants
Shops in Mexico started asking customers to pay with cash after several of the country’s biggest banks started having issues handling debit and credit card payments, Reuters reported on Saturday (Aug....
View ArticleStripe Adds Grovara’s B2B Export Platform To Partner Program
Grovara, a technology company that operates a B2B platform to streamline global trade for U.S. wellness brands, has announced it is joining Stripe’s partnership program. In a press release on Tuesday...
View ArticleGrovara CEO Talks International, Online B2B Commerce
Doing business internationally has its rewards, with new markets to tap, and top-line growth in the offing. But tracking goods — and payments — as they cross borders can be fraught with challenges. To...
View ArticleStripe Rolls Out New Product To Help Online Businesses Tap Funds
Stripe announced Thursday (Sept. 5) the launch of Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. Even those...
View ArticleTop News In Payments: Stripe Rolls Out Stripe Capital; Cards Generate $6.13T...
Today in the payments news roundup, Stripe launched Stripe Capital to simplify the way internet companies can access funds. Also, commercial and consumer cards issued in the U.S. generated $6.13...
View ArticleStripe Expands European Presence
San Francisco-based Payments startup Stripe is rolling out its services in eight new European countries, the company said in a press release on Monday (Sept. 9). Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania,...
View ArticleTop News In Payments: Stripe Grows Presence In Europe; Apple Introduces Fall...
Today in the payments news roundup, Stripe is rolling out its offerings in eight new European countries. Also, the new iPhones and the rest of Apple’s fall lineup of devices will finally get their...
View ArticleStripe Launches Corporate Card, Expands Payouts To 45 Countries
Financial services and technology company Stripe now has the capability to pay out to 45 countries, and has launched a new corporate card for businesses, the company announced Tuesday (Sept. 10)....
View ArticleTop News In Payments: Stripe Rolls Out Corporate Card, WePay Customers Get...
Today in the payments news roundup, Stripe announced the creation of a corporate card. Also, some users of WePay can now get faster deposits to their JPMorgan Chase bank accounts. And Domino’s has...
View ArticleChase, AFP Applaud B2B’s Shrinking Check Use
The paper check continues to be a prominent — and, in many cases, dominant — payment method in B2B transactions. PYMNTS research released last October in the “Bringing Corporate Payments Out of the...
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