U.S. retail customers are adopting buy now, pay later (BNPL) options for in-store transactions, according to Zip. On a call with analysts Monday (Aug. 26) discussing the Australia-based FinTech company’s fourth quarter fiscal 2024 financial results, CEO Cynthia Scott spoke to this shift. “Our Americas business had an outstanding year,” Scott said. “…Higher margin channels, including the physical card, saw strong in-store engagement, with card volumes up nearly 150% versus the prior year and in-store volume now driving 20% of all U.S

Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Zip is reportedly considering a partnership with Apple. That collaboration would integrate Zip’s installment payments offering with Apple in the U.S., CEO Cynthia Scott told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The company also plans to announce pacts with major U.S. merchants during this quarter, she added. “We don’t have an integration with Apple at the moment in the U.S., but that’s something that we are in conversation with them about,” Scott said on Tuesday

Australian streaming service Stan has chosen financial infrastructure platform Stripe to power its online payments and subscription billing.Stan has partnered with Stripe to help the streaming service increase authorization rates and reduce involuntary churn, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 21) press release.“We are continuing to build outstanding user experiences our customers value,” Stan Chief Technology Officer John Hogan said in the release. “Stripe’s strong expertise in financial infrastructure development helps by providing easy, intuitive and secure payment and billing processes for our customers.”In this partnership, Stan has worked with Stripe to accelerate its time to market with customized subscriptions by integrating Stripe Billing; increase its payment acceptance rate by combining Stripe Billing with Adaptive Acceptance, Network Tokens and Card Account Updater; and improve recovery rates by implementing Smart Retries, according to the release.Stan is adopting these solutions at a time when 90% of consumers in Australia have a streaming subscription, and there is an increasing number of subscriptions per person, per the release.“We’re thrilled to partner with Stan to offer more payment flexibility to its customers and scale its streaming business in a cost-efficient manner,” Karl Durrance, managing director, Australia and New Zealand at Stripe, said in the release.This is the latest of several new partnerships and product offerings announced by Stripe in recent weeks.Zip said Thursday (Aug. 15) that its buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering will be generally available later this year as a payment method for U.S. merchants using Stripe. That offering’s availability in the United States is currently limited to beta users.On Aug