Digital payments firm Stripe has hired Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to explore a public listing and alternatives to allow employees to cash out stakes in the private company, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The move, communicated to Stripe employees in an internal memo earlier on Thursday, would give them an opportunity to sell shares in the company either to private investors or in a public market, the sources said.

“Global payments processing company Stripe is launching its own fiat-to-crypto on-ramp, allowing customers to exchange dollars for cryptocurrencies. Stripe’s new transactions solution is billed as a customizable widget, which can be directly embedded within different DeFi platforms.  The most common way to on-ramp fiat-to-crypto today is to purchase cryptocurrencies through a centralized exchange — including the likes of Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and the recently deceased FTX. To partake in DeFi, one then transfers the cryptocurrency to a third-party wallet. As a major payments processor for prominent Web2 companies, such as Apple and Walmart, Stripe’s decision to step further into the crypto world during a time when centralized exchanges are under heightened scrutiny can help DeFi become more accessible to mainstream consumers.”

“Stripe Statistics: Online shopping, online education, and online subscription all of these have made payments to turn online. Almost everyone in the world today used online payment to pay their merchants/ businesses. Stripe is one of the most used digital payment intermediaries which helps businesses to receive payments from customers. These kinds of flexible methods are helping businesses grow on an international level. In this stripe statistics, we will have a look at the strip’s features and products, with their benefits. Stripe statistics will also have insight into general numbers along with a comparison between Stripe and Google Pay.”

“Today Stripe announced its general availability in Thailand, where its financial infrastructure platform will help solve the complex payments issues facing Thai businesses. “Thailand’s digital economy is one of the fastest growing in Southeast Asia. However, moving money on the internet remains incredibly complicated and cumbersome,” said Tee Chayakul, Thailand country director at Stripe. “We want to remove these barriers with financial infrastructure that helps ambitious businesses increase their revenue, automate low-value tasks, and expand internationally.” Thousands of companies in Thailand have already signed up on Stripe during a beta phase over the past year. They include the online property platform Baania, leading luxury furniture retailer Chanintr, holiday resort Coconut Beach Bungalows, accounting software platform FlowAccount, and digital creator platform Storior.”

“Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced that Revolut will use Stripe to support payments in the UK and Europe and accelerate its expansion into new markets. Founded in 2015, Revolut has rapidly become one of Europe’s great fintech success stories. After launching in the UK with money transfer and exchange services, the company now offers dozens of products—from accounts and insurance, to trading and invoicing—that improve money management for 18 million customers and 500,000 businesses in more than 200 countries and territories.”

“Payments giant Stripe is launching a new bank transfer proposition in the UK and other markets, which it says will erase  “the operational pain of receiving and manually reconciling transfers” for businesses. Bank transfers, which have been in existence since 1871 when Western Union added money transfers to its telegram service, are still one of the most common ways to send money today. According to Stripe, in Europe more than $4trillion in bank transfers is processed each year. But the current process, says Stripe, is filled with “friction”- pointing to businesses losing hundreds of hours on confirming transfers, reconciliation and accounting, and refunds.  StrIpe’s new offering, already launched in Japan, is now being rolled out in the  UK, EU and Mexico. Fundamentally, it automates all reconciliation and says it creates a simplified refund process.”

“Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today released Stripe Apps and the Stripe App Marketplace. As an ecosystem of popular third-party tools, Stripe Apps addresses a fundamental challenge for growing businesses and meets a top request from Stripe users. To compete in the internet economy, businesses utilize a wide variety of software tools. Even if they’re using Stripe to process payments, they might use separate tools to send a refund confirmation and close out the associated customer support ticket. While these tools are helpful, they introduce the friction of manual coordination and the potential for human error as users switch between them. Stripe Apps unites many of the tools that businesses rely on, making it easier to complete common tasks in one place.”

“Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced the release of Stripe Data Pipeline, a tool for Stripe users who store data with Amazon Redshift or Snowflake Data Cloud. Data Pipeline syncs Stripe data and reports with Amazon Redshift or Snowflake Data Cloud, where they can be queried in combination with other business information. Businesses can use their consolidated data to speed up their financial close and automate reporting to better identify key insights about their business, like their best performing payment methods or their optimal fraud modeling approach for a given region.”

“Stripe, the payments upstart now valued at $95 billion, has been launching a number of new products to expand beyond the API that helped make its name, to build out its position as a platform for financial services and related business infrastructure. The latest of these is making its debut today: App Marketplace, as the new service is called, is a new offering where Stripe will both provide access to third-party apps, as well as scripts created by app publishers, users and Stripe itself, that incorporate those apps with Stripe. It potentially represents its biggest leap yet away from payments.”

“Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today launched Stripe Financial Connections, enabling businesses to establish direct connections with their customers’ bank accounts that power a wide range of financial processes. Businesses can use Financial Connections to verify accounts for payments and payouts, check balances to reduce payment failures, and cut fraud by confirming bank account ownership.”

“Stripe is adding several cryptocurrency services for businesses, breathing new life into a strategy it abandoned just four years ago. The San Francisco-based payment company recently debuted global payment solutions for Web3 , including application programming interfaces to allow users to buy and store crypto tokens and process cryptocurrency payments. Web3 refers to blockchain-powered technology such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital token transactions.”

“Stripe, a technology company building financial infrastructure for the internet, today announced that Blockchain.com has chosen Stripe to facilitate payments, mitigate fraud risk, and improve revenue management. Founded in 2011, Blockchain.com was one of the early infrastructure pioneers of the Bitcoin community. As of January 2022, 37 million verified users from nearly every country had used the platform to create more than 80 million crypto wallets and complete more than $1 trillion in crypto transactions.”

“Today, internet first retailers including Buck Mason, Castlery , Glossier, and Warby Parker are using Stripe to power transactions across both brick-and-mortar and online storefronts in a single unified tech stack. Using Terminal with Stripe Connect , platforms like Lightspeed , Mindbody , Shopify, and Wix provide their business users with the capability to accept in-person payments.”

“TripActions is a platform that helps businesses build, manage, and scale their corporate travel and expense programmes through powerful personalisation and 24/7 access to global travel agents. The company partnered with Stripe to launch TripActions Liquid, its virtual and physical card programme that helps manage travel payments and expenses.”

“Collison’s comments come after a Bloomberg report said that Stripe was in early talks with investment banks about going public as early as next year. Collison said the firm has plans to expand across the Persian Gulf, which includes countries like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Stripe already has clients from $7.5 billion food delivery firm Deliveroo to a small gymwear brand called Squatwolf using it to process payments in the region, he added.”

“Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. The team – described in LinkedIn posts and job listings – will be run by Guillaume Poncin , Stripe’s former head of engineering for banking and financial products. He is looking to hire at least four staffers to help plot Stripe’s crypto strategy.”