Stripe Treasury launches in Australia, unifying payments and global money management
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, launched Stripe Treasury in Australia. „Stripe Treasury gives businesses a single platform to accept payments, hold and convert funds and pay recipients anywhere in the world directly from the Stripe Dashboard.” – according to the press release.
Global businesses often rely on a patchwork of bank accounts and payment providers to move funds between currencies. They typically have to wait days before their incoming revenues settle and are available to fuel their business. „Stripe Treasury allows global businesses to manage incoming and outgoing flows across currencies from a single account, reducing settlement delays and unnecessary currency conversions.” – the company said.
Instead of waiting the typical two days for funds to settle in an external bank account, businesses running on Stripe Treasury gain instant access to revenue for paying suppliers, contractors and third parties in nearly 100 countries with just an email address. Businesses can receive and hold funds in AUD, USD, GBP and EUR, and instantly convert between 10 supported currencies including HKD, SGD and NZD.
„Tens of thousands of new Australian businesses and solopreneurs are joining Stripe each month and many have global ambitions from the get-go,” Karl Durrance, Stripe’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand said. „These businesses need infrastructure that’s able to support them as they expand internationally, which is why we’ve launched Stripe Treasury.”
„Stripe already powers core financial operations for businesses of every size in Australia – from accepting payments and managing subscriptions to preventing fraud and selling internationally. Now, with Stripe Treasury, businesses can hold, convert and move money from the same platform they use to grow revenue. This gives Australian companies a unified financial foundation to operate domestically and globally.” – the company explained.
Later this year, Australian platforms on Stripe will be able to offer embedded financial accounts to their customers with Treasury for Platforms. Today, US platforms like Squarespace allow businesses to hold balances, earn rewards and access spend cards directly from their websites using Treasury for Platforms.
More new products for Australian businesses shared at Stripe Tour Sydney
When a business makes an international sale to a customer in a country where it does not have a local entity, the payment is around 5 percentage points more likely to be rejected by that customer’s card issuer. Starting this month, Stripe Managed Payments will begin domestically processing businesses’ international sales from where the customer is paying, through Stripe’s own local entities, to deliver higher authorisation rates. Stripe Managed Payments handles localised checkout, indirect tax compliance, fraud, disputes and customer support on behalf of businesses to support global expansion. Australian businesses can also automatically show customers prices in their local currency with Adaptive Pricing, which has delivered an average 17.8% increase in cross-border revenue.
Stripe is also helping businesses adapt their fraud defences for the AI era. In Australia alone, Stripe Radar prevented more than AU$2.4 billion worth of fraudulent transactions in 2025. Stripe Radar now protects against fraud across all payment methods to help combat new AI-era threats including multi-account abuse, free trial fraud and token theft.
In 2025, Stripe Billing powered over 10 million active subscriptions for Australian businesses. It now includes Metronome’s usage-based billing, which measures AI token consumption in real-time and lets businesses charge customers for exactly what they use.
These updates were shared at Stripe Tour Sydney, the company’s annual internet economy conference in Australia.
