Stripe acquires Nigerian start-up Paystack in $200m deal
Paystack has 60,000 business customers across Nigeria and Ghana.
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Payments group Stripe snatches General Motors’ CFO
The payments company has been building out its senior team in recent months.
Stripe adds Bacs Direct Debit to compete with UK rivals
Stripe will directly compete with UK home market player GoCardless.
Stripe bags $600m in fresh funding to hit $36bn valuation
Stripe recently added Zoom as one of its main customer.
Stripe leads $20m Series A into ecommerce checkout service Fast
Jumping from a $2.5 million raise to a $20 million investment in a few months is fast.
US non-bank financial firms push Congress for SME lending relief
Legislators are currently working on a bill which addresses small business loans.
EBA’s migration deadline for SCA must be seen as a warning
Regulator has given plenty of time for merchants to whip themselves into shape.
Libra publishes signed charter with 21 members, inc. Spotify, Uber and PayU
Libra’s meeting also agreed on board members and staff.
Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe follow PayPal’s suit and leave Facebook’s Libra
Facebook’s hopes of a global cryptocurrency are hanging in the balance.
Stripe hits $35 billion valuation on back of fresh funding
Stripe’s value has increased 56% since the start of 2019.
Stripe announces new lending arm Stripe Capital
Loans will be based on the customer’s transaction activity on Stripe.
Xero and Stripe team up to help small businesses get paid faster
A champion move to help small businesses (SMBs) get paid faster and give them more options on how they get paid.
Step receives $22.5m Series A funding
Challenger for teens’ waiting list has surpassed half a million people.
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Facebook, Stripe, and Europe’s biggest IPO.
Stripe acquires Touchtech Payments for SCA compliance
The Irish firm specialises in security for online payments.
Stripe leads $40m funding round in paytech Rapyd
Fintech-as-a-Service platform looks for Rapyd success.
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Tiger makes Stripe roar with $100m funding
Latest round puts paytech’s valuation at $22.5 billion.
Tandem Bank earns its Stripe-s for auto savings
UK challenger bank also opens community beta testing for new feature.
Stripe lives up to hype with $245m funding raise
US-based mobile payments provider now valued at $20 billion.
Stripe makes it Terminal for programmable POS
Stripe Terminal takes an online presence into the physical world.
Stripe and Visa join $8m funding round in African start-up Paystack
Nigerian payments firm also gets help from Tencent and Y Combinator.
Stripe lines up APIs for programmable payment cards
APIs rule for US mobile payments firm.
Visa Direct expands to Europe
Visa has unveiled its European debut of Visa Direct, its real-time payments platform that allows for person-to-person (P2P), business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) payments.
The Monday mindset: 4 September 2017
Fintech zeitgeist! This week Loraine DeBonis, editor-in-chief of Banking Technology’s sister site Paybefore, muses on all the money changing hands in the payments industry.
Fintech funding round-up: 29 November 2016
We’ve summed up the latest funding efforts and results in the fintech space – so you don’t have to! Featuring Billon Group, Stripe, figo and Finimize.
Stripe payments land in Europe
US payments firm Stripe has launched “Managed Accounts” for its Stripe Connect to marketplaces in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. Stripe says by using Managed Accounts, marketplaces in Europe can design “lightweight” setup flows, configure payment schedules, decide who pays fees, determine when information is collected, and more. Managed Accounts was launched […]
