Stripe agrees to acquire small business lender Parafin

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    "url": "https://www.americanbanker.com/payments/news/stripe-agrees-to-acquire-small-business-lender-parafin",
    "title": "Stripe agrees to acquire small business lender Parafin - American Banker",
    "excerpt": "With a deal to buy PayPal apparently off the table , Stripe is improving its ability to offer credit to small businesses and entice these customers away from banks. Stripe has agreed to acquire Parafin, a company that enables platforms such as DoorDash, Guston, Jobber and Mindbody to offer credit to their small-business clients. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the \"coming months,\" were not disclosed; and Stripe did not return a request for comment. \"Platforms power millions of small businesses throughout the world and are central to Stripe's mission,\" said Neetika Bansal, business lead at Stripe, in a release. \"[The Parafin team] brings acute expertise and leadership in credit, risk and embedded financial products. Together, we'll be able to offer a wider range of credit products to a larger ecosystem and increase credit access for high-growth businesses.\" Stripe earlier this year was reportedly ready to team with Advent Capital to acquire PayPal for $53 billion, an acquisition that would bring millions of consumers to Stripe. PayPal's board balked at the price, while Stripe made a separate deal to buy AI company OpenRouter . OpenRouter and Parafin would improve Stripe's ability to combine AI and lending to grab a large share of clients' business. More than 18,000 platforms use Stripe as a financial services portal for the small businesses that access the...",
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