Stripe Unveils Payments Products Powered by 'Gale-Force Tailwind' Stablecoins

Stripe is ramping up its stablecoin capabilities, expanding the provision for businesses to receive and hold payments on cryptocurrency rails. Following on from Stripe's acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge, the San Francsico-based payments giant has unveiled a new money management service powered by stablecoins.Stablecoin Financial Accounts will enable businesses to hold a balance in stablecoins and distribute them anywhere in the world, Stripe announced on Thursday.At its annual event Sessions, CEO Patrick Collison described stablecoins along with AI as "not one, but two, gale-force tailwinds, well off the Beaufort scale, dramatically reshaping the economic landscape around us source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/05/08/stripe-unveils-payments-products-powered-by-gale-force-tailwind-stablecoins