Stripe stories
Payoneer teams with FundPark to offer Hong Kong eCommerce sellers AI-driven credit lines of up to USD $10 million via integrated accounts.
Xero is axing its app store billing by June 2026, forcing developers onto new API-based tiers and their own subscription systems.
Nium strengthens global payments push with new chiefs for risk, technology and marketing as AI, stablecoins and regulation reshape the sector.
Deel launches The Pitch, a global contest offering up to USD $15m in SAFE funding to seed start-ups, with APAC entries closing 21 April.
As analogue-era banking creaks under digital demand, DeFi is quietly rewiring the rails of global finance, not blowing them up.
GitHub Copilot tops 4.7m paid users as GitHub pitches Agent HQ as the central hub for multi-vendor coding agents across its platform.
AI platform Emergent raises USD $70m Series B from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank to speed global software creation for non-coders.
AI app builder Emergent raises USD $70m Series B to deepen European push, add London offices and hiring as revenue soars to USD $50m ARR.
Xero unveils its 2025 Power Lists, spotlighting the most‑connected apps across accounting, payments, retail, trades and professional services.
Google has launched an open Universal Commerce Protocol to standardise AI shopping flows across search, apps, merchants and payments.
Insight deepens its Stripe alliance to modernise enterprise payments and power AI-driven checkout and in-chat commerce experiences.
Akeneo launches an AI‑driven Winter Release to power “agentic commerce”, speeding product data from enrichment to activation for AI buyers.
Visa widens Bridge tie-up to let more firms issue stablecoin-backed cards, targeting faster, more certain cross-border SMB payments.
Alludium opens its no-code AI agent platform to the public, offering paid plans from launch as it shifts from design partners to wider use.
London startup Alludium has publicly launched its no-code Agent Operating System, letting teams build and run shared AI agents via chat.
Anthropic dangles EUR €355,000 AI engineering pay as it ramps up Dublin hiring drive and cements the city as a key European hub.
New York fintech Ramp is betting on 'self-driving' finance, using AI and Visa cards to automate spend, bills and cash for US firms.
Akeneo and Stripe launch integration to pipe AI-ready product data into agentic checkout flows, cutting disruption for merchants.
Beast Industries acquires fintech app Step, betting on financial literacy tools to turn his vast creator audience into customers.
BigCommerce merchants worldwide gain Stripe's Optimised Checkout, adding Link, BNPL, local payment methods and AI fraud tools to boost sales.
