Stripe Unveils 15 New Features for French Businesses

US-based payment processing company Stripe has launched 15 new features tailored to support the digital economy in France. Most of these enhancements rely on AI and stablecoins, aiming to propel businesses within the region towards greater efficiency and growth.

This move by Stripe is part of a broader strategy to strengthen France’s digital landscape. By offering advanced capabilities, it hopes to enable local enterprises to optimize their operations more effectively and scale up their activities.

New Capabilities from Stripe

• Payment Foundation Model, which gathers subtle signals previously undetected and helps optimize performance.
• Addition of payment methods like titres-restaurant and Open Banking payments, bringing the total number of supported options to over 125.
• Stripe Orchestration, a tool for setting up, managing, and optimizing payments across multiple providers from within the Stripe Dashboard.
• Stripe Capital, allowing businesses to access financing more efficiently via the Stripe Dashboard. In late 2025, over 1,000 French platforms on Stripe will also be able to offer financing to their customers, supporting small business growth.
• Stripe Tax for registering, calculating, and filing taxes in up to 102 countries.

In the coming year, French businesses will gain access to money management features that allow holding and managing balances in multiple currencies within a single Stripe account. They will also be able to pay out to customers, contractors, and other third parties using an email address across 50 countries.

Stripe collaborates with several AI startups based in France, such as Mistral, Dust, Nabla, and Hugging Face. Additionally, the company works closely with French unicorns. This strategic partnership is aimed at integrating blockchain technology and tools into mainstream digital products.

This announcement follows Stripe’s recent intention to acquire Privy, a crypto wallet infrastructure provider, to enhance its Web3 capabilities. The acquisition amount was not disclosed but confirmed by Privy on June 11, 2025. It aligns with Stripe’s broader strategy of improving the integration of blockchain technology into everyday digital tools.