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FedEx and Stripe have agreed a long-term partnership that uses shipment data for small-business lending. The lending product is not due until early 2027; the checkout deal is the part that is real now.
October 8, 2026
Stripe has agreed to buy the embedded lender that already powers credit offers for DoorDash, Gusto, Jobber and Mindbody. Financial terms were not disclosed.
October 6, 2026
AI agents are starting to pay for things on our behalf. This is how agentic payments work, which protocols and pilots are live, and who is liable when an agent gets it wrong.
October 5, 2026
US consumers can connect Stripe’s Link wallet to Muse and let Meta’s AI agent buy from businesses across the web. It is Stripe’s clearest bet yet on agents handling real checkout volume.
September 17, 2026
A Georgia merchant acquirer charter gives Checkout.com direct access to Visa and Mastercard for US enterprise merchants, removing the third-party acquiring bank. It applied in October 2025.
September 16, 2026
Oak HC/FT led Latitude’s $35 million round, taking total funding to $43 million. The company pays out stablecoins into local rails such as Pix, UPI and Kenyan mobile money.
September 14, 2026
PayPal shares fell as much as 16% premarket after Bloomberg reported that Stripe and Advent had dropped their pursuit, erasing most of the takeover premium.
August 30, 2026
