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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…
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…
Rob Frieman, CIO of URBN, and Maia Josebachvili, Stripe’s chief revenue officer of AI, during their NRF session on how URBN meets shoppers where they are. Agentic commerce dominated the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual conference in New York earlier this week. NRF launc…
Platforms tell us that managing risk and compliance often feels like choosing between speed and safety. You need to onboard businesses quickly so they can start using your product, but you also need to screen thoroughly for fraud. You want to expand globally, but each new market…