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Former BOE Governor Mark Carney Joins Stripe

February 22, 2021

Stripe, an online payment processing company, announced that the former Governor of the Bank of England (BOE) and the Bank of Canada (BOC) Mark Carney has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Carney is cu...

Mastercard, eBay And Stripe Say Goodbye To Facebook’s Libra

October 11, 2019

Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe have pulled out of the coalition of companies involved in a Facebook-led cryptocurrency initiative, Libra Association, in the latest headache for the social network’s effort. Ot...

US Senators Urge Visa, Mastercard, Stripe to Rethink Libra Membership

October 9, 2019

Amid the exit of PayPal from the Libra Association, the focus is now on three other major partners of the project – Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe. Two Senate Democrats – Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Sena...

PayPal, Visa & Others Considering Withdrawal From Libra

October 4, 2019

After PayPal representatives didn’t show at a Libra Association meeting on Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the company is reconsidering its involvement with Facebook’s Libra project. The payment ...

‘Stripe Issuance’ Will Allow Companies to Issue Their Own Credit Cards

July 27, 2018

Online payments company Stripe has announced that it will soon be offering companies the ability to issue their own credit cards. According to the announcement, Visa and Mastercard will be the operating netwo...

Stripe Draws a Line Through Bitcoin

January 24, 2018

Payment processing giant Stripe has stopped supporting Bitcoin on its platform, according to a company blog. The change will happen gradually over the next three months, with the planned end date being the 2...

Stripe Officially Launches in France and Opens Office in Paris

June 8, 2016

Stripe, a provider of payment processing tools for websites and mobile apps backed by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, has made its services officially available to clients in ...

Stripe’s Bitcoin for Checkout Comes out of Beta, Allows Any Merchant to Accept Bitcoin At Checkout or Via API

February 20, 2015

Stripe’s Bitcoin for Checkout feature, which had been in beta testing for nearly a year, has now been fully launched. Stripe provides payment processing tools for websites and mobile apps. They seek to make ...