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Financial products like payments, accounts and lending offered inside non-financial software, so businesses access them via the platform instead of a bank.
Stripe will use FedEx shipment data to judge advances for tens of thousands of FedEx customers, starting in early 2027. The parcel signals sit beside conventional financial records, so the test is whether they let more sellers qualify or mainly make approvals faster.
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Stripe agreed to buy Parafin, which has lent to more than 60,000 businesses through software platforms such as DoorDash, Jobber and Mindbody. The deal widens a lending business Stripe already runs and leaves open how much of the credit risk it will hold.
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The bank will not say what it paid. JPMorgan says its Newline unit is meant to grow deposits 35% to 50% a year, roughly double the pace forecast for embedded payments overall.
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Chime's proposed purchase of Stride Bank cost its sponsor bank $13.55 a share, even though the Chime contract runs to mid-2028. Valley Bank and Hatch Bank are already sponsoring a different kind of client.
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The Saudi building materials platform's $31m arrives as $13m of Series B equity from Wa'ed Ventures and 500 Global plus $18m of debt from Stride Ventures, committed to working capital and customer payment terms.
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Chift's Series A takes its total funding to 12.8 million euros on a catalogue of 120 financial systems built by 35 people. The platforms paying for those connectors are also the ones best placed to write them.
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