Over $18.6bn in transactions processed by Stripe over Black Friday weekend

The payment platform, founded by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, has published real-time information for the first time

Stripe was founded in San Francisco in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison. Picture: David Paul Morris

Stripe, the Collison brothers’ online payments company, has announced that $18.6 billion was processed on its platform over four days from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.

This marks the largest amount ever processed in a four day period on the platform.

The company shared real-time information on processed payments over the four day period last week for the first time in its history. The data included metrics such as server activity, the overall number of ...