Stripe is giving Claude a way to spend money
Hey Payments Fanatic!
Your AI assistant can now do the shopping, handle payments, and even manage parts of your business finances.
Anthropic’s Claude is integrating Stripe’s Link wallet for agents and Stripe MCP, allowing users to make purchases and manage payment admin directly from the app. Need to order business cards, buy ads, or get lunch for the team? Just ask Claude. You approve the purchase, and it pays using a virtual card.
But Stripe is taking things further. With Stripe Treasury for agents, businesses can let AI agents check balances, pay invoices, transfer funds between accounts, and convert currencies — all from the tools they already use, including ChatGPT and Claude. Businesses control what agents can access and which actions require human approval.
The idea is already taking shape at Kubrio, where a solo founder uses an AI agent to monitor balances, subscriptions, failed payments, and refunds. Next, he plans to let the agent prepare transfers and contractor payments for his approval.
And Claude isn’t the only one. Stripe says Link now powers payments for more than 200 personal agents, including Meta’s Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct.
We’re moving from AI that helps you decide what to buy to AI that can actually move money for your business. The big question is how much financial responsibility you’re comfortable handing over to an agent.
Would you let AI handle your business payments?
In the meantime, here’s what else is happening in payments today👇
See you on Monday!
Cheers,
INSIGHTS
💡 Europe’s Payments Market Is Still Highly Local. From iDEAL/Wero in the Netherlands and BLIK in Poland to Bizum in Spain and Swish in Sweden, consumers across Europe rely on different domestic payment methods. For merchants, supporting these familiar options can improve conversion, reach, cost efficiency, and fraud management. The key takeaway: despite Europe’s single market, payment preferences remain fragmented across countries, making local payment coverage an important part of a successful European expansion.
NEWS
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🌎 Klarna partners with FreshBooks to bring flexible payments to small businesses. U.S. and Canadian FreshBooks users can now offer Klarna payment methods directly in invoices. The integration is powered by Stripe and requires no extra setup.
🇸🇬 Moom Health scales globally with Airwallex Business Accounts. The Singapore-based wellness brand has streamlined cross-border payments, payroll and employee expenses through Airwallex, saving up to two days a month in manual work and eliminating hidden transfer charges.
🇺🇸 Incognia examines Apple’s new fraud-prevention features. Incognia’s Gabriel Falcone, Co-Founder and Head of Software Engineering, explains how Apple’s new trust signals can help flag scams but cannot confirm whether a transaction or identity is legitimate. He highlights why combining them with device, location and transaction data remains important for fraud prevention.
🌐 Stripe launches Treasury for agents, letting startups run finances through ChatGPT and Claude. Agents can check balances, pay invoices, and convert currencies, with spending limits for agents arriving in the coming weeks.
🌏 Anthropic integrates Stripe’s Link wallet and Stripe MCP into Claude Duet. The AI agent lets small business owners make purchases using approved virtual cards, send invoices, analyse revenue and issue refunds. Each purchase requires the owner's approval before payment is completed
🌐 Fireblocks denies report of $2.5 billion acquisition talks with Visa. The company called the claim "not true at present time," while Visa declined to comment. Axios reported talks with the custody firm, last valued at $8 billion in 2022.
🇳🇬 EBANX becomes the first global payments company to launch recurring payments via OPay in Nigeria. Global subscription businesses can now reach OPay's 40 million monthly active users through OPay Direct Debit at checkout.
🇦🇪 etisalat money partners with Visa to expand cross border money movement. The deal uses Visa Direct to enable transfers to eligible cards and recipients' phone numbers for UAE consumers and businesses.
🌍 Ecommpay partners with Dolphin Dynamics to simplify travel payments. The integration gives travel agencies and tour operators access to multi-currency payments, local payment methods and fraud-prevention tools
🌐 TerraPay integrates its Verify solution with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan's Liink network. Participants can now validate bank account and wallet details before sending payments. An estimated 10 to 15% of international payments fail over incorrect payee details.
🇦🇺 Adyen partners with TFE Hotels to unify payments and launch UNICEF donations. TFE Hotels will activate Adyen Giving across 35 Adina properties for charity donations at checkout. New properties can now go live in as little as four weeks.
🇺🇸 TreviPay expands Pay by Invoice to more Walmart Business customers. Following a pilot, eligible businesses can now access net 30-day payment terms, a dedicated credit line and detailed invoicing for purchases online and in Walmart stores.
🇦🇺 KPay wins an Australian Financial Services Licence for its local subsidiary. The licence lets KPay issue payment products and provide general advice on them. The company has signed more than 4,000 SMEs since launching in Australia a year ago.
🇨🇳 China rolls out an upgraded digital yuan system at a Beijing forum. The rollout adds DCEPS, a central bank payment system, and the e-CNY SMART Contract framework. Participating areas logged 4.3 billion transactions worth about 31 trillion yuan.
🇦🇪 Ziina secures triple licensing from the Central Bank of the UAE. The new approvals make it the first homegrown UAE FinTech to hold permissions spanning stored value, retail payments, and digital currency exchange.
🌐 Remittix plans to add 41 fiat currencies to its crypto payments platform. The company says the expansion will support more crypto-to-bank payment routes ahead of its planned November launch. The announcement also promotes its RTX token presale.
🌐 Appcharge appoints Ronen Morecki as Chief Operating Officer. Morecki joins from monday.com, where he was Vice President of Payments. He will oversee payments strategy and operations for its Merchant of Record platform.
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