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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. Additionally, as Stripe moves into new product verticals like lending and corporate cards, it exposes itself to credit risk and an uncertain interest rate environment.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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That same year, the company acquired TextPayMe , a peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile service that was relaunched as Amazon Webpay in 2011. Amazon Lending initially launched in 2011 to help small businesses finance and sell more goods on Amazon. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. Amazon SMB Lending.