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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.
Square Builds Out App Marketplace Ahead of Block’s Earnings Report
February 20, 2026
Global business platform Square continues to expand its partner ecosystem and now has almost 1,000 partners in its Square App Marketplace and its Square Specialists directory, the company said in ...Read moreFTC, State Regulators Step Up Scrutiny of Data Collected From Connected Vehicles
February 20, 2026
Federal regulators are intensifying scrutiny of how automakers collect, use and monetize data generated by connected vehicles, with geolocation and driver behavior information emerging as the focal point of enforcement. A ...Read moreSoFi and Square Show Why Bank Charters Matter Now
February 20, 2026
A FinTech can launch a polished banking app in months, but becoming a bank can take years. The difference isn’t marketing. It’s legal authority. It’s also one of the hottest financial stories ...Read moreMarket Power and Governance Power: New Tools for Antitrust Enforcement in the Decentralized Gig Economy
February 19, 2026
This Article advances a new framework for digital-age antitrust enforcement by integrating measures of market concentration (such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index) with novel metrics of governance concentration (the Nakamoto coefficient ...Read moreTop-Tier Malls Attract Shoppers and Capital as Others Face Demolition
February 18, 2026
Walk into a top-tier mall in a high-income suburb right now and you can still feel echoes of the holiday rush: full parking decks, busy food halls and steady lines ...Read moreCrypto Growth Forces Banks to Solve Multi-Chain Fragmentation
February 18, 2026
Despite the hype and headlines, institutional and financial blockchain products are no silver-bullet panacea for legacy money movement frictions. The early promise of blockchain was around efficiency thanks to its immutable, ...Read moreWhat Happens to Stores When AI Agents Do the Shopping?
February 18, 2026
Fifty years ago, Susan was one of more than a hundred million Americans who drove to a shopping mall an average of once a week to buy things. By 1976, ...Read moreAmazon Plans Second Big-Box Store Near Chicago
February 17, 2026
Amazon has proposed a second big-box store in the Chicago area, Mass Market Retailers (MMR) reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing a paywalled article in the Chicago Tribune. The company submitted to ...Read moreEU Governments Target Big Tech Amid Rising Fears for Children
February 17, 2026
Governments across Europe are intensifying efforts to rein in major social media companies, citing mounting public anxiety over child safety online. The moves come as officials seek to address fears ...Read moreSezzle and David’s Bridal Tout BNPL to Ease Wedding Cost Stress
February 17, 2026
Sezzle and David’s Bridal teamed up with the Times Square Alliance to highlight payment solutions during a “Love in Times Square” event held on Valentine’s Day (Saturday, Feb. 14). Love in ...Read more
Google Aims at Merchants With Open-Source Universal Agentic Protocol
January 12, 2026
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol marks a shift in how the company wants transactions to happen online. Instead of sending users from search results to merchant websites, Google is beginning to ...Read moreBlock’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 more
Uber Debuts New Services for Autonomous Vehicle Partners
February 23, 2026
Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles. These capabilities have already begun helping partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles (AVs) in markets worldwide, Uber ...Read moreMulti-Agent Systems Move Business AI From Chatbot to Operations
February 20, 2026
For the last two years, enterprise artificial intelligence has been stuck in the assistant phase, a world of smarter emails and faster document summaries that boosted individual productivity but left ...Read moreEarnings Season Made It Clear: Digitize Supply Chains or Fall Behind
February 20, 2026
Logistics is moving from a game of scale to one of smarts. As global trade shifts under the weight of ongoing uncertainty and geopolitical strain, knowing where goods are, what condition ...Read moreMeta Looks to Take on Apple With First Smartwatch
February 19, 2026
Meta has reportedly resurrected its smartwatch project, aiming to release the device this year. That’s according to a report Wednesday (Feb. 19) from The Information, which notes that the company’s efforts are happening as ...Read moreBillion-Dollar Firms Swap AI Hype With Long-Term Capital Discipline, Data Shows
February 19, 2026
Hype can go hand in hand with immediacy. Since artificial intelligence first went mainstream, the innovation has been framed as having an immediate impact. As a result, the goals for enterprise buyers ...Read moreRegulatory Concerns Temper Agentic AI Adoption Across the Tech Sector, PYMNTS Finds
February 19, 2026
The fastest way to spot where agentic artificial intelligence will land next is to watch the technology sector, where it is already being built and tested. Inside tech, familiarity is translating ...Read moreApple Bets on AI Wearables to Lock in iPhone Users
February 17, 2026
Apple is accelerating its development of three artificial intelligence (AI)-powered wearable devices: smart glasses, a pendant and AirPods, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 17), citing unnamed sources. The three devices will be ...Read moreAI Pushes SaaS Toward Usage-Based Pricing
February 17, 2026
For roughly 20 years, enterprise software companies have optimized around seats. Add users, grow annual recurring revenue and expand multiples. That model powered the rise of Salesforce, ServiceNow and hundreds of software-as-a-service ...Read moreFed Governor Barr Says Firms Using AI Are Moving Staff to Higher-Value Jobs
February 17, 2026
Artificial intelligence may transform the American workplace by enhancing how employees perform complex tasks rather than replacing employees, Federal Reserve Governor Michael S. Barr said Monday (Feb. 17). In a speech ...Read moreFirms Report Improved Financial Performance Linked to Use of Embedded Finance
February 16, 2026
Embedded finance has evolved beyond a supplementary revenue channel to become the deciding factor between companies that forge lasting customer relationships and those that fall behind, according to new research ...Read more
Figure Debuts Tokenized Stock on Its OPEN Network
February 19, 2026
Figure is reportedly introducing a tokenized class of stock that trades on blockchain rails. Company officials told Coindesk Thursday (Feb. 19) that Figure’s FGRD token will be available on its Onchain Public Equity ...Read moreBehind the Stablecoin Buzz, Old-School Infrastructure Still Runs the Show
February 19, 2026
Stablecoins are often portrayed as a triumph of blockchain innovation, but behind the scenes they can frequently run on conventional infrastructure. It may come as a surprise to corporate leaders weighing ...Read moreLegal Experts Say Shifting Federal Stance on Digital Assets Puts Bank Charters Back in Play
February 19, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Nixon Peabody’s Andrew Glass and Gregory Blase For years, getting a bank charter was something only traditional financial institutions worried about. That’s changing fast. A growing number of ...Read moreBanks Target Q4 Launch for Tokenized Deposit Network
February 18, 2026
A tokenized deposit network built by five banks and a blockchain-based platform led by former Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig is expected to be available to the banks’ customers in ...Read moreCrypto Growth Forces Banks to Solve Multi-Chain Fragmentation
February 18, 2026Despite the hype and headlines, institutional and financial blockchain products are no silver-bullet panacea for legacy money movement frictions. The early promise of blockchain was around efficiency thanks to its immutable, ...Read moreLove, Honor and Ledger: Why Couples Are Marrying With Crypto Prenups
February 14, 2026
Welcome to the Weekender, where the only thing more volatile than Bitcoin is the human heart. In 2026, couples still swap playlists and promise forever, but now they also swap custody ...Read moreFigure Tests Future of Trading With Blockchain Stock Launch
February 13, 2026
Figure Technology Solutions launched a proposed secondary public offering of up to 4.23 million shares of its Series A Blockchain Common Stock, or Blockchain Stock, the company said in a Friday (Feb. ...Read moreCrypto Advocates Urge UK’s FCA to Narrow Regulatory Scope
February 13, 2026
The DeFi Education Fund (DEF), a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, is urging the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to limit its upcoming cryptocurrency regulations to entities that have unilateral ...Read moreOn ‘From the Block,’ Experts Warn Crypto Must Fix Scams and User Errors Before Scaling
February 12, 2026
Explore more conversations like this From the Block. The cryptocurrency industry appears to have a narrative problem. The story it tells is about speed, innovation and a financial system rebuilt from scratch. ...Read moreCrypto VCs Say AI Investment Is in Post-Hype Era
February 11, 2026
The crossroads where cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence meet are quiet these days, according to two venture investors, whose comments during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 were reported Wednesday (Feb. 11) by ...Read more