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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.
Amazon Plans to Build Big-Box Store Near Chicago
January 9, 2026
Amazon reportedly plans to open a big-box store comparable to a Walmart or Target location in a Chicago suburb. The 229,000-square-foot facility would sell groceries, general merchandise and prepared foods, Bloomberg ...Read moreTensions Between Trad-banks and the Crypto Industry Could Come to a Head in 2026
January 7, 2026
The crypto industry enters 2026 from a position of unusual political strength, but that momentum is setting the stage for a new and potentially destabilizing conflict with traditional finance. After ...Read moreJPMorgan’s Proxy Shift Signals AI’s Expanding Beachhead
January 7, 2026
Artificial intelligence’s most visible applications might arguably be chatbots and customer service experiments. However, AI is steadily finding inroads into the operational core of financial services, reshaping how banks analyze information, ...Read moreCES Spotlights B2B Tech Driving Next Industrial Era
January 6, 2026
By now, the consumerization trend of the B2B space is old news. But if the 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is any indication, the tides of innovation ...Read moreStord Buys Shipwire to Expand AI-Driven Fulfillment and Global Reach
January 5, 2026
Stord has acquired Shipwire, the artificial intelligence (AI) fulfillment subsidiary of CEVA Logistics, expanding its global logistics footprint and strengthening its technology platform as brands accelerate adoption of intelligent end-to-end ...Read moreDeepSeek Takes a Shot at AI Cost Structure
January 5, 2026
DeepSeek says it has developed a new way to train large language models that allows performance to improve without a proportional increase in training costs, challenging one of the core ...Read moreDrones, Diamonds and the Ultra-Extravagant Impulse Buy
January 3, 2026
Somewhere between the last peppermint latte and the first “dry January” seltzer, the consumer psyche performs an elegant pivot: from recovering to romancing. Valentine’s Day is the annual reminder that love may be ...Read moreCoalition of State AGs Push Back Against FCC Proposal Seeking to Preempt State AI Laws
December 31, 2025
A bipartisan coalition of more than 20 state attorneys general has sharply challenged a Federal Communications Commission proposal that could significantly reshape the balance of federal and state authority over ...Read moreFDIC Support Clears a Path for Tokenized Deposits to Scale
December 29, 2025
Tokenization is steadily reshaping how financial assets are recorded and moved, and support from regulators is paving the way for wider use across financial services. At its simplest, tokenization converts an ...Read moreAlexa+ 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 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
Senate Bill Would Extend National Quantum Initiative and Expand Its Activities
January 8, 2026
A bipartisan group of United States senators introduced a bill Thursday (Jan. 8) that would extend the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) by five years and expand its activities. The NQI was ...Read moreNeurosymbolic AI Aims to Make AI Safe for the C-Suite
January 8, 2026
Limitations of large language models have become harder to ignore as their adoption spreads into regulated and safety-critical environments. Hallucinations, weak causal reasoning and opaque decision paths have made many ...Read moreRetail Media Networks Turn Data and AI Into Growth Engines
January 8, 2026
Retail media networks are moving from the margins of advertising strategy to the center of how brands and retailers compete, as data and media increasingly converge to shape consumer experiences ...Read moreJPMorgan’s Proxy Shift Signals AI’s Expanding Beachhead
January 7, 2026Artificial intelligence’s most visible applications might arguably be chatbots and customer service experiments. However, AI is steadily finding inroads into the operational core of financial services, reshaping how banks analyze information, ...Read moreOpenAI Says AI Will Help Handle Household Chores
January 7, 2026
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will replace them at their jobs. But OpenAI’s chief economist said AI will soon help people with the jobs they do at home. Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji ...Read moreRazer Spends $600 Million to Sharpen Focus on AI Gaming
January 6, 2026
Gaming company Razer is reportedly in the midst of an expansive revamp based around artificial intelligence. As part of the realignment, the company is rolling out new products for consumers and ...Read moreMeta Pauses International Smartglasses Launch
January 6, 2026
Meta is pushing back the worldwide launch of its smartglasses amid steep U.S. demand. “Meta Ray-Ban Display is a first-of-its-kind product with extremely limited inventory,” the company wrote on its blog ...Read moreSmart Ring Shipments Projected to Jump 49%
January 5, 2026
Smart rings are reportedly going from niche gadgets to mainstream health/wellness products. The category is on pace for a 49% increase in shipments for 2025, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 5), ...Read moreOpenAI Debuts Audio AI Models Ahead of New Personal Devices
January 2, 2026
OpenAI is reportedly improving its audio artificial intelligence (AI) models because it expects users of future personal AI devices to communicate with them through voice commands rather than via a ...Read moreBusy Year in Big Tech Regulation May Have Been a Warm Up for 2026
January 1, 2026
A new presidential administration in the United States and a new executive commission in the European Union transformed technology regulation in 2025. They each had different views from their predecessors on ...Read more
Banks, Cards and Creators Push Stablecoins Into Financial Mainstream
January 9, 2026
The stablecoin pitch has always been a digital token that maintains a stable value, usually pegged to a fiat currency, while inheriting the speed, programmability and global reach of blockchains. What ...Read moreBNY Enables Tokenized Deposits for Financial Institutions and Digital-Native Companies
January 9, 2026
BNY enabled the on-chain mirrored representation of client deposit balances on its Digital Assets platform and said this marks the first step in its strategy to tokenize deposits. With this initiative, ...Read moreKinexys by J.P. Morgan to Integrate Deposit Token With Canton Blockchain
January 9, 2026
Digital Asset and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan have announced a collaboration that will bring Kinexys by J.P. Morgan’s products to Digital Asset’s Canton Network. The collaboration will initially focus on enabling ...Read moreCiti and PYMNTS Launch ‘From the Block’ Podcast: Straight Talk on Digital Assets
January 8, 2026
PYMNTS and Citigroup are launching a weekly podcast series aimed at giving corporate leaders practical guidance on stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. The first episode will debut Tuesday (Jan. 13). Called ...Read moreThe Crypto CFO Playbook for Navigating Blockchain’s 3 Layers
January 7, 2026
Most organizations have a blockchain blind spot. And it’s in the word itself. For years, “blockchain,” and “crypto,” have been treated as a singular proposition. Companies were assumed to be either ...Read moreFireblocks Pays $130 Million for Crypto Accounting Platform TRES Finance
January 7, 2026
Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and financial reporting platform. The purchase, announced on the Fireblocks blog Wednesday (Jan. 7), is designed to address the growing ...Read moreLloyds Looks to Tokenization to Improve Home-Buying Process
January 7, 2026
The CEO of U.K. bank Lloyds thinks tokenization can help improve the home-buying process. That’s according to the Financial Times (FT), which published an interview with Charlie Nunn on the topic ...Read moreThe Crypto CFO Playbook for Blockchain Treasury Management
January 7, 2026
Two words typically define and rule the enterprise treasury management space: discipline and predictability. Cash flows are forecasted, liabilities are denominated in stable currencies, and transparency is something produced quarterly, often ...Read moreStripe Integrates Crypto.com to Facilitate Crypto Payments
January 6, 2026
Stripe and Crypto.com partnered to make cryptocurrency payments easier for merchants and their customers. An integration of Crypto.com with Stripe will enable businesses to more easily accept crypto payments through Crypto.com ...Read moreThe Stablecoin Wallet Playbook for CFOs and Treasury Teams
January 5, 2026
It’s taken nearly 17 years, but cryptocurrency has officially gone corporate. The once-Wild-West of Web3 is targeting the back office. Putting an exclamation point on the momentum shift, the big four ...Read more