# Linked financial accounts

## End users of Financial Connections
**This page is for end users.** If you use Financial Connections and are a merchant or platform, please visit our Merchant Support page.
Stripe helps individuals and businesses link their financial accounts so that they can share information for streamlined payments, fraud mitigation, underwriting and financial management services.
Resources below explain how link financial accounts work, solutions to common issues and how you can control data from the accounts that you've linked.