Stripe has announced it has launched in Australia and began testing in three Scandinavian countries.
Stripe started three years ago and is backed by a trio of PayPal co-founders; Stripe is a simple-to-use multi-currency service as an easy way for businesses to begin accepting payments from around the world. It takes a cut of several percentage points off transactions across its platform.
The company’s latest international expansion came when it struck a deal with Alipay to enable Chinese buyers to pay for purchases on the US service.
Stripe now operates in several countries, which included: Canada, Britain and Ireland, and it is also beta-testing in European countries such as Finland, Switzerland and now Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Co-Founder and President of Stripe, John Collison, said: “Stripe’s mission is to grow Internet commerce by providing everything an online business needs to accept payments.”
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