Stripe officially launches its services in Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia, „helping internet businesses in these countries to start, grow, and scale their business globally and accept money from anywhere in the world.”, according to the press release.
“Central and Eastern Europe has a lot of entrepreneurial and technological talent, and we believe even more of its companies could be expanding globally,” says Felix Huber, Head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, at Stripe. “Stripe aims to empower more companies from this region to export their creativity and ambition to the rest of the world.”
In just a few clicks, businesses can export to the world using Stripe infrastructure
Starting today, businesses in these countries can start accepting payments in over 130 currencies in as little as 10 minutes. For the first time, Stripe is giving them access to Stripe’s global payments and treasury network. In addition to accepting payments, companies can use Stripe to handle accounting, billing, paying out to third parties and optimizing for mobile payments—all from one centralized dashboard. Stripe users also get access to mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Stripe helps companies minimize online fraud
In addition to the challenges of handling multiple currencies, fraud is often one of the greatest blockers for businesses looking to sell to consumers around the world. Stripe uses sophisticated machine learning to provide unrivalled fraud protection and security safeguards that protect businesses and their customers against fraudulent transactions.
Stripe accelerates new internet business models and helps traditional businesses innovate faster
As more activities move online, a new wave of internet companies is growing, including marketplaces, crowdfunding and subscription businesses. Stripe can equip software developers and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe with the tools they need to be part of the next batch of internet giants.
Following the launch of Stripe Capital last week, Stripe is also launching Stripe Corporate Card and enabling payouts to dozens more countries to make it easier to run an internet business, boost revenue, and expand internationally.
Stripe has been investing in its Global Payments and Treasury Network to help solve this pain point for ambitious, global platforms and marketplaces that want to connect retailers with consumers, drivers with passengers, donors to open source developers, and so on.
„Starting today, US businesses and platforms can make payouts to recipients in 45 countries in local currencies and over local bank networks. That means that today, platforms powered by Stripe can send money to users in Thailand, Poland, or Indonesia, just to name a few, with zero extra engineering work.”, the company said.
Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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