SEA Deal Ticker
Who settles it when the buyer is an AI agent? DBS wires Stripe into its Asian rails
Stripe gains access to DBS money-movement and cash-management infrastructure; DBS takes Stripe's embedded-finance reach. Asia's outbound cross-border flows ran $13.5 trillion in 2025 and are projected at $24 trillion by 2033.
Positive-sum angle: Every SEA merchant already on Stripe inherits a pan-Asian settlement bank without negotiating for one. The corridor work happens upstream, once, for all of them.