Stripe, a leading global financial infrastructure platform, has announced its most significant upgrade. It aims to make money management fully internet-native and programmable.
The company is rolling out new capabilities designed to help users store, send, and receive money in multiple currencies across stablecoins and traditional currencies on local rails. Over the next year, these features will be available by default to all Stripe users.
This announcement was made at the company’s 2025 annual conference, where it shared some of the biggest changes. As part of the update, Stripe introduced new money management tools built into the Stripe Dashboard. Businesses in the US and UK can now store and manage funds in multiple currencies, convert between them, and send and receive payments using local payment networks.
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Additionally, Stripe announced the upcoming launch of Stablecoin Financial Accounts. This feature will enable users in over 100 countries to store, receive, and send funds using either crypto or fiat payment rails from a dollar-denominated stablecoin balance.
At the company’s annual conference, Stripe introduced Global Payouts, a feature that allows businesses in the US and UK to send funds to customers, affiliates, contractors, or other third parties in 58 countries using just an email address.
Notably, the company previewed a new USDC-denominated corporate card available through the Visa network. Powered by Stripe Issuing and Bridge, this offering represents another step forward in Stripe’s vision for programmable financial infrastructure.
Another major announcement was Stripe Orchestration, which allows businesses to manage multiple payment processors seamlessly from a single dashboard. This feature gives full control and visibility over payment routing and performance. The Optimized Checkout Suite is also seeing significant enhancements. Soon, customers will be able to use one-click Klarna via Link. This summer, Stripe Managed Payments, a merchant of record solution, will launch, handling global tax compliance, fraud disputes, checkout UX, and customer support.
AI is also powering Stripe’s checkout experience more than ever, using over 100 signals to dynamically personalize payment methods and fields. Stripe now supports 125+ global payment methods, including real-time options like Pix and UPI. Businesses can localize prices across 150+ markets with Adaptive Pricing, and display any payment method with any processor using the Payment Element.
Launched in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collinson, Stripe was created to simplify online payments for businesses and developers. The company has grown significantly to become one of the most prominent fintech startups globally.
It announced that it processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024, a 38% increase from 2023, equivalent to roughly 1.3% of global GDP. The company now serves half of the Fortune 100, 80% of the Forbes Cloud 100, and 78% of the Forbes AI 50, with major clients like NVIDIA, PepsiCo, and Amazon.
Notably, Stripe supports 35 million registered users, with each averaging 50 monthly transactions, and maintains a 99.99988% API availability rate. More than 300,000 businesses now rely on Stripe Billing the core of Stripe’s Revenue suite, including some of the world’s most prominent AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Midjourney, and more recently, NVIDIA.
Stripe has unveiled its most significant updates to the Revenue suite to date. These enhancements include the introduction of two new extensibility features Scripts and Workflows which transform Stripe into a fully programmable revenue engine. Additionally, Stripe has upgraded its usage-based billing capabilities to better support the monetization of AI-driven products and services.
Looking ahead, Stripe aims to support emerging markets by adding 25 new payment methods and enhancing its Stablecoin Financial Accounts to drive financial inclusion.