Stripe

Financial firms need to focus developer teams on creating products, not fixing legacy IT issues and bad code.

The two companies were part of an $8 million funding round for Paystack, a company with a model similar to Square.

Sensing an opportunity in the small-business credit card market, Stripe is setting out to outflank big banks by offering application programming interfaces to enable its clients to issue their own physical and virtual credit cards.

Sensing an opportunity in the small business credit card market, Stripe is setting out to outflank big banks by offering APIs to enable its clients to issue their own physical and virtual credit cards.

Stripe Inc., a startup that lets businesses and websites easily accept money online, now wants to help them spend it by introducing a new product: credit cards.

Europe has become increasingly competitive with Silicon Valley when it comes to creating successful technology companies, said John Collison, co-founder and president of payments company Stripe Inc.

Stripe Inc. and JCB Co. have signed a memo of understanding for a global partnership enabling JCB card acceptance at all online merchants that use Stripe.

Microsoft will use the Stripe Connect platform to enable hundreds of millions of Outlook users to immediately pay invoices and bills received via email in more than 135 countries.

E-commerce payments technology provider Stripe is launching a fraud prevention tool for security professionals at large organizations.

More e-commerce companies see recurring billing as a key revenue model, a trend that convinced Stripe to try to lower the bar to entry.

It’ll be up to card not present payment processors to ease the path toward acceptance of cryptocurrencies for subscriptions, and it could be another five years or more before any of that comes to fruition, writes Georg Richter, founder and CEO of OceanX.

Bitcoin has lost touch with its original mission of being an alternative decentralized currency, and Stripe has decided that it is no longer worth supporting for payments.

For merchants, a processor that’s a tad better, a bit more comprehensive, can make an enormous difference, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Android Wear introduced a new version of its technology earlier this year.

In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.

Since e-commerce merchants often operate without walls, it makes little sense to operate with borders.

Stripe will collaborate with WeChat and Alipay to make it easier for merchants around the world to accept payments from Chinese consumers.

The company has added six new markets in Europe, where it has already established a beachhead for its e-commerce technology.

Financial services companies such as PayPal, Lydia and RBC are testing chatbots on platforms such as Slack and Facebook Messenger.

When Stripe Inc. launched its e-commerce payment services in 2011, the San Francisco-based startup wasn't presenting itself as a major threat to online giant PayPal — and even with its new $9.2 billion valuation, it still might choose a different path.