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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. Now both companies have moved beyond payments and built new businesses that serve a range of needs for small businesses. Business lending & corporate cards.

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

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Today, Amazon has expanded its business lending to the US and UK. Amazon Lending initially launched in 2011 to help small businesses finance and sell more goods on Amazon. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. In consumer, Amazon offers lending in the US in the form of partner cards.