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It’s never been easier to reach global customers. Thirty-six percent of Stripe businesses now have customers in more than one country, and the number selling into more than 100 countries has quadrupled in five years. Turning that reach into revenue, however, requires solving a f…
Visa recently launched the Digital Commerce Authentication Program (DCAP), a new global framework designed to reduce fraud and increase authorization rates for card-not-present transactions. The program rewards businesses in the US for sharing richer transaction data with issuer…
Solo startup founders, defined here as people who launched a startup through Stripe Atlas without any cofounders, account for 63% of C corps formed so far in the second quarter of 2026—an all-time high. As more founders start companies on their own, the gap between typical compa…
Last month at Stripe Sessions, we shared the biggest expansion we’ve ever made to Stripe Radar, our AI-powered fraud prevention tool. Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods; defends against new fraud types like multi-account abuse and pay-as…
At the Stripe Sessions SaaS Platform Leaders Summit, Stripe Head of Data and AI Emily Sands (left) discusses AI’s impact on commerce with Metropolis Cofounder and CEO Alex Israel and GlossGenius Founder and CEO Danielle Cohen-Shohet. Last month, thousands of vertical SaaS leader…
This morning at our annual conference, Stripe Sessions, we shared 288 new products and features with more than 9,000 business leaders and builders. We’re making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and bu…
In the Sessions keynote, we talked about how agents are becoming active participants in the internet economy, and how we’re building the infrastructure to support them. Agents have become increasingly capable in recent months, but making purchases across the internet remains dif…
Changes in the internet economy are prompting businesses to take a more tailored approach to checkout. On Stripe, 65% of transactions under $50 now happen on mobile, and shoppers are increasingly staying on their phones for higher-value purchases, too. Digital wallets cut averag…
More than 10,000 retail and commerce leaders gathered in Las Vegas last week for Shoptalk 2026. Across sessions with Coach, OpenAI, Wayfair, Meta, Sephora, and others, the conversation around agentic commerce centered less on future potential and more on what’s already live: con…
Earlier this month, we analyzed hundreds of millions of transactions across Stripe to identify first-party fraud trends. One of the biggest findings: free trial abuse is rapidly accelerating. From November 2025 to February 2026, our models detected 6.2x more abusive free trials…
Earlier this week, more than 2,000 payments leaders gathered at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Vegas 2026 conference to discuss new fraud patterns, authentication strategies, and agentic commerce. One theme emerged: fraud has become more automated and increasingly difficult to…
Subscription businesses are more global than ever, driven in large part by the growth of AI companies. But as they expand into more markets, setting the right price in the right currency is still incredibly complex. Localizing even a one-time purchase is difficult: because excha…
AI is evolving from question-and-answer chatbots to autonomous agents that can make comprehensive plans, execute actions, and evaluate outcomes. We believe agents will become an integral part of the internet economy, and they need the ability to transact with businesses and one…
A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is another story. The moment agents meet live product catalogs, inventory, fraud systems, and customer support queues, sellers quickly run into a long list of real-world edge cases to solve for. Over…
From November 2025 to February 2026, we detected a significant increase in abusive free trials across Stripe’s network. This is part of a broader shift toward first-party fraud, where legitimate users abuse policies by setting up multiple accounts, cycling through free trials, o…