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Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ)
Square, Inc. is a financial services, merchant services aggregator, and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California. The company markets several software and hardware payments products, including Square Contactless and Chip Reader, Square Stand, Square Register and Square Magstripe Reader, and has expanded into small business services such as Square Capital, a financing program, Cash App, a person-to-person payments service, Appointments, Gift Cards/eGift Cards, Invoices, Virtual Terminal, Marketing, Loyalty, Employee Management, and Square Payroll.
Alexa+ Now Integrated With Square, Expedia and Yelp
December 23, 2025
Expedia, Yelp, Angi, and Square are building agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for Amazon’s Alexa+. The new integrations are set to debut on the virtual assistant device next year, Amazon wrote ...Read moreGenerative AI Forces Copyright and Antitrust to Collide
December 23, 2025
Watch more: TechReg Talks: Penn State’s Daryl Lim Copyright and antitrust have long operated in parallel, rarely intersecting in meaningful ways. Copyright law governs incentives for creativity and authorship. Antitrust law focuses ...Read moreCoinbase Files Lawsuits Challenging States’ Efforts to Control Prediction Markets
December 19, 2025
Coinbase filed lawsuits in Connecticut, Michigan and Illinois, challenging each state’s efforts to control or block prediction markets. Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at Coinbase, said in a Thursday (Dec. 18) ...Read moreHow AI and Orchestration Rewired Cross-Border Payments in 2025
December 19, 2025
When times get tough, payments need to get easier. That was the case in 2025 for cross-border payments. In a year marked by geopolitical uncertainty, supply-chain reconfiguration and persistent pressure on ...Read moreShopify and Contentsquare Team on AI-Driven Customer Behavior Analysis
December 17, 2025
Digital analytics platform Contentsquare has launched a new partnership with Shopify. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Dec. 17), is designed to combine Shopify’s eCommerce platform and Contentsquare’s behavioral insights to offer businesses ...Read moreSquare and Thrive Team to Help Retailers Manage Inventory
December 16, 2025
Square has expanded its partnership with inventory management reporting system Thrive. The expanded collaboration is designed to help sellers manage their catalogs, sales and stock between their in-store and eCommerce platforms, ...Read moreSquare Pilots Cash Rounding Functionality After Penny Production Ends
December 15, 2025
Square is piloting a cash rounding functionality with sellers in the United States to help them deal with the end of the penny. The solution automatically rounds cash transactions to the ...Read moreWalmart Completes Street-Front Retail Lineup at New Corporate Campus
December 12, 2025
Anthropologie, Chipotle and Starbucks have become the final lease signees at Walmart’s new Home Office, the 350-acre corporate campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, that offers amenities for the retailer’s associates, members ...Read moreHire Power – Employee Recruitment and German Merger Control
December 11, 2025
This article examines whether the recruitment of employees – without any accompanying asset transfers or other related agreements between companies – can trigger German merger control. It argues that, under ...Read moreLowe’s and Home Depot Tap AI to Capture DIY Spend
December 10, 2025
The traditional consumer journey from initial home project idea to completed build is notoriously inefficient, opaque and cash intensive. Retailers and construction managers are now turning to artificial intelligence (AI) ...Read more
Block’s Third Quarter Puts Spotlight on FinTech Realities, Not Crypto Dreams
November 6, 2025
As the lines between financial services, consumer banking and commerce blur, sitting at the intersection of technology and money movement starts to look attractive. At the enterprise level, at least. ...Read moreStablecoin Orchestration Becomes New Blockchain Battleground
November 3, 2025
As payment innovations scale, settlement and infrastructure have traditionally reared their heads as the strategic chokepoints. In the early days of the digital payments revolution, for example, industry titans like Mastercard, ...Read moreTrulioo Says the Next Evolution of KYC Is KYA
October 29, 2025
Watch more: What’s Next in Payments: Trulioo, Zac Cohen Commerce is changing fast, and verification has never mattered more for payments companies. As October unfolds, surprises abound and may touch on everything ...Read moreMastercard Wants to Make Commercial Payments Plug-and-Play
October 16, 2025
The golden rule of business is that operational inefficiency can cost enterprises both their time and their money. It’s the golden rule of business payments, too. But unlike the consumer payments space ...Read moreBlock Targets Traditional Card Users With Expanded Rewards Program
October 10, 2025
Some of the new features offered by Block’s Square and Cash App brands take direct aim at the fees charged by card networks, Bloomberg reported Friday (Oct. 10). The company is ...Read moreBlock Pushes Past Payments Into Bitcoin, Banking and BNPL
August 7, 2025
Block, owner of Square and Cash App, is betting that the future of money won’t look a lot like its past. Per its executive remarks during Thursday’s (Aug. 7) second-quarter 2025 earnings ...Read moreBakkt Inks Deal With DTR to Become Crypto, Stablecoin Infrastructure Provider
May 12, 2025
In today’s operating environment, adaptability is more than a competitive edge. It can mean the difference between survival and insolvency. Bakkt Holdings, Inc., a once-diversified digital asset platform, is living that ...Read moreBlock Renews Bets on AI, Ecosystem Lending as Growth Softens
May 1, 2025For a company long hailed as a tech disruptor in financial services, Block’s Q1 2025 results present a paradox. One of slowing growth amid a flurry of innovation. The question looming ...Read moreCash App’s Growing Number of Direct Deposits Marks Progress in Expansion Efforts
April 3, 2025
Block’s Cash App is reportedly making progress in its efforts to offer banking services to customers who mostly use the app to make payments. The number of the app’s users who ...Read moreBlock Doubles Down on Banking Base as FinTech Competition Grows
February 20, 2025Jack Dorsey is no stranger to playing the long game. But Block, the financial services and digital payments company formerly known as Square, missed Wall Street’s short-term estimates for its ...Read more
How Top-Performing Middle-Market CFOs Create Working Capital Efficiency
December 23, 2025
Working capital used to sit in the background of corporate strategy. In 2025, however, chief financial officers across the middle market rediscovered working capital as one of the most powerful and ...Read moreCredit Unions Compete as Small Businesses Redefine the Banking Relationship
December 23, 2025
Throughout the banking history of the United States, credit unions have played a distinctive role in providing financial services to their local small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Rooted in regional communities ...Read moreGenerative AI Forces Copyright and Antitrust to Collide
December 23, 2025Watch more: TechReg Talks: Penn State’s Daryl Lim Copyright and antitrust have long operated in parallel, rarely intersecting in meaningful ways. Copyright law governs incentives for creativity and authorship. Antitrust law focuses ...Read moreHow AI Is Rewriting the Healthcare Playbook
December 19, 2025
Health systems are turning to artificial intelligence as rising complexity and labor pressures demand faster, more reliable decisions. They use AI to predict hospital operations, scale intelligence across networks and personalize ...Read moreDefense Spending Law Restricts US Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
December 19, 2025
A defense spending bill signed into law Thursday (Dec. 18) by President Donald Trump reportedly includes provisions that restrict United States investment in Chinese tech firms. The National Defense Authorization Act’s ...Read moreWhat Manufacturing, Healthcare and Tech CFOs Have in Common
December 18, 2025
When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to mind. It’s the same for simple payments and healthcare; or not meeting their customers’ needs and ...Read moreAgentic Commerce Tests Whether Payments Can Stay Invisible
December 18, 2025
Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: Paysafe’s Roy Aston In payments, the most meaningful breakthroughs can often be invisible ones. The consumer taps, clicks or chats, and the transaction simply works. But ...Read moreAI Turns Cards Into Intelligent Payment Credentials
December 17, 2025
Watch more: Beyond the Card: Visa’s Jeffrey Chen Cards are moving beyond their traditional role as a way to pay. The new race to the top of wallet is about the ...Read moreUS Puts Tech Deal With UK on Hold
December 16, 2025
The United States government reportedly paused its technology deal with the United Kingdom. The suspension of the “technology prosperity deal” comes amid rising frustration in Washington over the progress of trade ...Read moreAirbnb Deploys AI to Prevent Disruptive Parties at Rented Homes
December 12, 2025
Airbnb is using technology to stop disruptive parties before they start. The online marketplace for short-term rentals uses machine learning-powered “anti-party technology” to identify bookings that could be a higher risk ...Read more
Crypto Investors Feel Little Optimism Amid 22% Bitcoin Decline
December 23, 2025
The total market capitalization for cryptocurrency has climbed above $3 trillion. However, this rebound “reflects exhaustion” and not a reinvigorated conviction in the crypto space, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Dec. 23). Bitcoin ...Read moreJPMorgan Weighs Crypto Trading to Expand Digital Asset Presence
December 22, 2025
JPMorganChase is reportedly weighing cryptocurrency trading for its institutional clients. The country’s largest bank is determining what products and services its markets division could offer to widen its digital assets business, ...Read moreMastercard, BlackRock Join Middle East-Focused Blockchain Effort
December 18, 2025
Mastercard, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are all players in a new blockchain adoption promotion effort. That’s according to a Thursday (Dec. 18) announcement from ADI Foundation, an Abu Dhabi-based non-profit founded with the goal of “empowering governments ...Read moreCrypto Firm Ripple Expands TJM Partnership
December 18, 2025
Cryptocurrency solutions company Ripple says it has expanded its partnership with broker-dealer TJM Investments. With this collaboration, Ripple is investing in TJM and will continue to provide infrastructure to support its ...Read moreSoFi Deepens Crypto Offerings With SoFiUSD Stablecoin
December 18, 2025
Personal finance firm SoFi has launched SoFiUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin. The launch makes SoFi the first national bank to issue a stablecoin on a public, permissionless blockchain, the company said in a ...Read moreSEC Signals Green Light for Finance’s Shift Toward Tokenization
December 16, 2025
When it comes to cryptocurrency, the Securities and Exchange Commission is increasingly trading in its stance of enforcement for one of education and enablement. The agency released an investor bulletin Friday ...Read moreJPMorgan Prepares to Launch First Tokenized Money Market Fund
December 15, 2025
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly deepening its blockchain efforts with its first tokenized money market fund. The bank’s asset management unit is deploying the fund on the Ethereum blockchain, the Wall ...Read moreConditional Charters Pull Crypto Closer to Core of US Banking
December 12, 2025
Crypto just got chartered. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday (Dec. 12) conditionally approved applications for new national bank trust charters to five applicants from the ...Read moreThis Week in Stablecoins: Incumbents Eye Control of Blockchain Infrastructure
December 12, 2025
Mainstream incumbents are taking over the crypto headlines. The biggest blockchain news this week did not come from a crypto-native startup, a decentralized autonomous organization or the latest memecoin frenzy. It ...Read moreJPMorgan Marks One of the Earliest Blockchain-Based Debt Issuances
December 11, 2025
JPMorgan has successfully arranged a U.S. commercial paper issuance on the Solana blockchain. The issuance, performed for Galaxy Digital Holdings and purchased by Coinbase and Franklin Templeton, marks one of the ...Read more