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name: Charles Schwab
domain: schwab.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: platform payments and embedded finance
descGrounded: 0.59
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# Charles Schwab

A brokerage and wealth management provider selling investing, trading, retirement accounts, and financial advisory services to individual investors and small businesses.

**Route:** surfaced by the platform payments and embedded finance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same core capability of brokerage accounts, trading platforms, and investment products to the same buyers who would shortlist the anchor (Stripe) for payment processing, but both serve as financial infrastructure for different primary needs—payments vs. investing—so the shortlist overlap is for customers needing both banking and investing; however, Schwab directly competes with Stripe only in the narrow case of embedded financial services like banking (Schwab Bank offerings) and card issuing, while primarily serving as a substitute for Stripe's broader financial stack when a buyer wants to manage money on their own rather than accept payments.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Brokerage and Trading Retirement Accounts (IRAs) Education and Custodial

> Invest on your own, trade with thinkorswim ® , and get full-service wealth management all in one place
