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Do we like Stripe?

Online payments and financial infrastructure for businesses; based in San Francisco and Dublin.

Our score: 7 out of 10. Mostly yes: a useful, widely used payments backbone with real climate spending and only small regulatory blemishes in what we found. Our search was thin on recent scrutiny.

Stripe was founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison. It's now one of the biggest private fintechs. In February 2026 a tender offer valued it at $159 billion, and a May 2026 report put its total payment volume at $1.4 trillion.

The main blemish we found is from 2020. Massachusetts' attorney general said Stripe's fraud controls were weak when it processed payments for the PlexCoin crypto scam. Stripe paid $120,000 and agreed to tighten its monitoring. The payment wasn't a fine, and Stripe didn't admit wrongdoing.

On the good side, Stripe helped set up Frontier. It's an advance purchase commitment of $925 million with Alphabet, Shopify, Meta and McKinsey, meant to speed up permanent carbon removal. Its Stripe Climate programme lets ordinary businesses chip in too.

We'd back it, with some caution. It's useful and not known for big scandals, but it's huge, private and handles a lot of data. Our search didn't dig into its labour or tax record.

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