The FedEx Dataworks and the Stripe announced on Tuesday (6) a long-term partnership to combine data from FedEx's logistics network with Stripe's financial infrastructure. The first joint solution, planned for early 2027, aims to expand access to financing for tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses.
The project will use operational information such as shipment volume, inventory movement and order fulfillment performance to complement the credit analysis carried out by Stripe Capital. The proposal is to consider signals from the actual operation of companies, in addition to traditional criteria such as banking history and credit score.
With this data, Stripe intends to assess the financing capacity of FedEx business customers and offer capital in a way that is more aligned with each business's operational activity. The initiative is aimed primarily at companies with a strong dependence on logistics and goods movement.
FedEx will bring more than 50 payment methods to checkouts
The partnership will also have a payments component. FedEx will begin offering Stripe as one of the options for processing transactions, allowing it to add more than 50 payment methods to its checkouts in different markets.
For FedEx, the collaboration expands the commercial use of data processed by Dataworks, a unit created to transform information from the company's global network into digital products. Stripe, in turn, gains access to logistics signals that can help measure the activity of companies requesting financing.
The companies did not detail fees, credit limits or the markets that will receive the new solution first. The initial launch is scheduled for the beginning of 2027, and the expectation is to later expand the integration to other solutions aimed at global commerce.
