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by fnordpiglet 13 days ago
Not necessarily - the compliance side would open up stripe entirely unless they very carefully structured as a bank holding company. Stripe has been trying to gain a charter in Georgia for years and just got it last year. I think this taught them it would be easier to acquire one. Additionally PayPal has been a EU bank for 12 years and just recently got its US banking charter. A global bank is pretty compelling.