In early 2026, we began moving our vendor payments to Global Payouts, Stripe’s product for paying recipients in 160+ countries. New-market setup fell from six weeks to one, with a 99.9% payout success rate. Here’s what we learned.
Despite slower global economic growth and greater geopolitical fragmentation, the fastest-growing enterprises continue to look beyond their home markets and are investing in tools and workflows that make expansion faster and more repeatable.
As fintech products become increasingly capable, the infrastructure behind them fades into the background. Three trends from Money20/20 show how stablecoins, agents, and always-on money are changing financial services.
AI is creating more SaaS competition, and platforms are feeling the pressure. A Stripe survey of 200 platform leaders shows how they plan to evolve pricing, grow revenue, and retain customers.
We’re introducing three updates to help fintechs launch products and grow internationally more easily: simpler payout management with Stripe Global Payouts, support for stablecoin cards in more countries, and unified APIs for building global financial products.
Applications rely on current Stripe data to fulfill orders, update customer accounts, and manage access to paid features. Until now, developers have had to build and maintain custom integrations to keep application databases in sync with Stripe. We’re introducing real-time sync to Postgres for Stripe Data Pipeline, which lets them keep databases current without having to build custom integrations.
As usage, costs, and customer expectations change, AI companies are moving beyond traditional SaaS pricing. Leaders at Monetize 2026 shared how they’re combining subscriptions with usage-based billing, building spend controls into products, adapting packaging and value metrics, and making pricing readable for both human and AI buyers.
Token billing is useful infrastructure, but usually a bad customer-facing pricing model. Your invoice should define the value your product delivers, not break down what it cost you to create it.
Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin built for global money movement, is now available across Stripe. Businesses can use OUSD to manage funds, make payments, and offer new financial services.
As agents take on more purchases, agent builders have increasingly asked us to help agents navigate checkout and earn consumer trust. Today, we’re sharing three major improvements to support this broader set of needs.
At the “great recalibration”-themed travel conference, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky called AI “an existential risk” to his company and “literally the best thing to ever happen” to it in the same discussion. That sums up many travel leaders’ push-and-pull relationship with AI.
We analyzed billions of transactions on Stripe from January 2022 to March 2026 to understand how card fraud patterns differ by region and country, what's driving those differences, and how businesses can respond.
Last year, Stripe data shows fraud attempts against travel and leisure businesses hit a four-year high. We analyzed payment activity from more than 200,000 active travel and leisure businesses on Stripe to understand where fraud is rising, how effectively it’s being blocked, and what businesses can do in response.
The SaaSpocalypse was a useful warning for the software industry, but SaaS platforms that help businesses run core operations are more deeply embedded. New platform businesses on Stripe are up 182% year over year.
We analyzed attempted fraud rates and customer abuse patterns on Stripe over the past year and found that AI companies faced 4.3x more fraud attempts than startups overall in Q3 2025.
As AI transforms software economics, the standard revenue playbook is breaking down. Learn how leaders around the world are preparing for agent buyers, updating processes for faster pricing iteration, and building more flexible infrastructure.
Platforms like DoorDash, Meta, and Deel already enable stablecoin payouts for global workers. We surveyed 2,300 workers in 20 countries to see what's driving stablecoin demand, where the opportunity is highest, and how other platforms can adapt.
Two product upgrades make it easy for global businesses to manage FX entirely on Stripe. We’re expanding multicurrency settlement to more markets and currencies, and we’re introducing the ability to convert currencies instantly—all on Stripe.
AI companies are undergoing rapid global expansion while achieving unprecedented rates of growth. We analyzed Stripe data to understand where global demand is the strongest, and how companies can build to best capture that demand.
To understand what can influence win rates, we analyzed evidence packets from one million disputes over a 16-week period. Here’s what the data shows and what it means for how you mitigate disputes.
