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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. The company has taken an aggressive but strategic approach towards new market entry, expanding globally through its open engineering and easy integration. Source: Square.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

Like secured credit cards offered at banks, it requires a one-time deposit between $100 and $1,000 at the time of the account opening, which then becomes the card’s credit limit. According to Morgan Stanley Research, Amazon’s long-term top line is 2-3X more exposed to emerging markets than rival Alibaba’s.