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

CB Insights

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. Stripe is powering online commerce for merchants of all sizes through its suite of payment services APIs. Source: Square. Goal 1: Broadly enable Online Commerce.

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How Banks Can Stay Relevant In The Era Of SaaS Dominance

PYMNTS

People don’t tend to think of them as a payments provider, but a very large part of what they do is move money seamlessly between consumers and the micro-businesses, called drivers.”. That is your entry point into how you are going to manage your business, and that is pretty scary for traditional banks.