Singapore – Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has showcased new stablecoin and AI-powered products at Stripe Tour Singapore 2025, underscoring its ambition to accelerate global growth for Asian businesses. The announcements were accompanied by new research showing strong optimism among regional firms despite economic headwinds.
According to Stripe’s survey, 73% of business leaders in Singapore, India, China, and Japan are confident in reaching new international markets within the next year. Nearly half expect their cross-border sales to grow, even as many grapple with rising costs and macroeconomic uncertainty.
Stablecoins Driving Cross-Border Commerce
Stripe highlighted stablecoins as a major enabler of borderless financial services. Almost 46% of surveyed businesses in Asia plan to adopt stablecoins within two years, citing efficiency and global reach. Stripe is already processing stablecoin payments from over 120 countries and earlier this year launched Stablecoin Financial Accounts, enabling businesses in more than 100 markets, including Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Brunei, to hold, send, and receive stablecoins.
Through its acquisition of Bridge, Stripe also partnered with Visa to launch a card that allows users to spend directly from stablecoin balances.
AI Reshaping Digital Commerce
Stripe emphasized the rise of AI-native commerce channels, with 82% of businesses expecting to use AI-driven sales channels by 2030. Already, 20% of surveyed companies in Asia have implemented agentic AI, with nearly half preparing to adopt it.
Stripe’s Payments Foundation Model, trained on tens of billions of transactions, is designed to detect complex payment fraud and optimize authorization rates. Early results show a 64% increase in detecting card testing attacks on large businesses compared to previous models.
Expanding Programmable Financial Services
Stripe also rolled out more than 50 upgrades to its payments, revenue, and embedded finance suite, including:
- Expanded market access: U.S.-based accounts can now access Brazil, India, South Korea, and Indonesia by enabling local methods like PIX, UPI, and NaverPay.
- New hardware: Stripe Reader S710 with built-in cellular connectivity.
- New payment methods: PayNow on Stripe Terminal in Singapore, Weixin Pay recurring payments globally, GoPay in Indonesia, and Naver Pay in Singapore.
- Fraud prevention: Stripe Radar blocked over S$1 billion in fraud across Asia in 2024 and now extends to SEPA and ACH.
- Compliance support: Stripe Tax now covers 102 countries, up from 57 last year.
- Processor management: Stripe Orchestration for managing multiple processors.
- Managed Payments: Stripe acting as merchant of record, handling tax, fraud, disputes, checkout, and customer support.
Stripe, which processes over $1.4 trillion annually—about 1.3% of global GDP—counts half of the Fortune 100, 80% of the Forbes Cloud 100, and 78% of the Forbes AI 50 among its users.
