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stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…
stripe Last year, we launched Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), a payment primitive for agentic commerce that lets agents initiate payments with a customer’s permission and preferred payment method, without exposing the underlying credentials. We’ve seen widespread adoption of SPTs by lead…
stripe 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…
stripe 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…