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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 and MarketMan Debut AI-Powered Restaurant Inventory Tool
April 2, 2026
Square has debuted a tool designed to give restaurants more visibility into ingredient usage. Square Restaurant Inventory, developed in partnership with inventory management platform MarketMan, is designed to offer “AI-driven ingredient and recipe ...Read moreBed Bath & Beyond Buying Container Store for $150 Million
April 2, 2026
Bed Bath & Beyond is expanding its retail footprint by acquiring The Container Store. The $150 million deal was announced Thursday (April 2), with the retailer (BBBY) saying that the acquisition brings it more than ...Read moreCVS Accelerates Rollout of New Pharmacy-Only Store Format
April 1, 2026
CVS Health plans to open about 20 smaller, pharmacy-only locations across the United States this year after opening its first one late last year. The company opened its first pharmacy-only CVS ...Read moreStablecoin Plans Split as Banks Go Their Own Way
April 1, 2026
At the end of 2025, when a consortium of ten global banks announced they were exploring a stablecoin tied to G7 currencies, the news carried the weight of inevitability. It ...Read moreBlock CEO Envisions AI Unseating Middle Managers
April 1, 2026
In the wake of sweeping layoffs, Block‘s Jack Dorsey sees AI replacing corporate middle managers. Dorsey, the financial services/tech company’s co-founder and CEO, put forth this idea Tuesday (March 31) in ...Read moreLabor Department Aims to Lower Barriers to Alternative Investments for 401(k) Plans
March 30, 2026
The Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued a proposed regulation Monday (March 30) that it said would expand access to alternative investments in 401(k) plans. The proposed rule would ...Read moreAligning Innovation and Better Regulation in Europe: A Science For Policy Perspective
March 30, 2026
This article argues that regulation and innovation in the European Union can be mutually reinforcing when guided by science-for-policy. In light of concerns about Europe’s competitiveness and innovation gap, it ...Read moreFighting For Democracy Amid the AI Race: Designing Tech Industrial Policy to Promote Democratic Economic Governance
March 30, 2026
As countries around the world rush to encourage greater investment and growth in their domestic AI industries, we argue that unless governments develop industrial policy strategies centered on strengthening democratic ...Read moreSquare Expands Lending Access for Seasonal and Project-Based Sellers
March 27, 2026
Square is now extending credit to more sellers after improving its underwriting models to assess the creditworthiness of those with non-standard revenue patterns. The new underwriting models enable the company to ...Read moreFirst Dollar Wins: How Deposit Timing Is Rewiring Financial Loyalty
March 27, 2026
The earliest interactions between a consumer and a financial provider rarely takes place in a branch, and the account opening is just the beginning. The most important moment, arguably, happens ...Read more
Stablecoin Plans Split as Banks Go Their Own Way
April 1, 2026At the end of 2025, when a consortium of ten global banks announced they were exploring a stablecoin tied to G7 currencies, the news carried the weight of inevitability. It ...Read moreGoogle 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 more
The New Power Broker in Consumer Decisions Is AI
April 3, 2026
The history of technology is littered with winners and losers. The winners typically have at least one thing in common: they were able to control the primary interface between large ...Read moreDavid Sacks Transitions From AI/Crypto Czar to Technology Advisory Committee Co-Chair
March 27, 2026
David Sacks has left his role as White House special advisor for AI and crypto and shifted to a new role as co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science ...Read moreTrump Appoints 13 Tech Leaders to Emerging Technologies Advisory Committee
March 25, 2026
President Donald Trump has appointed 13 tech leaders to an advisory committee focused on strengthening American leadership in science and innovation. The newly appointed members of the President’s Council of Advisors ...Read moreCan Your Company’s Data Keep Up With Enterprise AI?
March 24, 2026
For all the urgency surrounding artificial intelligence, many companies are still in Automation 1.0. While AI as a buzzword has become shorthand for progress, inside most organizations, what is labeled “AI” ...Read moreAI Policy Shifts From Innovation to Economic Payoff
March 23, 2026
Watch more: TechReg Talks With Progressive Policy Institute’s Dr. Michael Mandel Governments are reexamining technology as industrial policy increasingly confronts an era defined by artificial intelligence and uneven economic gains. Dr. Michael ...Read moreHow Healthcare CFOs Are Turning Operational Upgrades Into Financial Gains
March 18, 2026
Healthcare CFOs today are walking a tightening wire. System and network margins are under structural pressures, policy risk is rising across the industry and clouding long-term planning, all while the ...Read moreThe Digital Economy’s Longest-Running Grudge Matches
March 14, 2026
In the digital economy, not every war is fought over market share. Some are fought over principle, some over pricing and some, let’s be honest, because an adult in a ...Read moreMeta’s Avocado Delay Puts $135 Billion AI Bet Under Scrutiny
March 13, 2026
Meta delayed the launch of Avocado, its next-generation artificial intelligence model. The company pushed the release to at least May from a planned debut this month, The New York Times reported ...Read moreFedEx Plans Agent Workforce in Over 50% of Workflows by 2028
March 13, 2026
FedEx aims to have artificial intelligence agents participating in more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (March 13). “Every employee and every ...Read moreAWS, Nvidia and MassRobotics Name 9 Startups for 2026 Physical AI Fellowship
March 12, 2026
Amazon Web Services, Nvidia and MassRobotics have named nine startups for the 2026 cohort of the Physical AI Fellowship, highlighting the growing push to develop artificial intelligence systems that operate ...Read more
Why Fortune 500 Firms Are Becoming Blockchain Validators
April 3, 2026
Crypto going corporate is shining a spotlight on the sector’s more technical components. The growing institutional embrace of blockchain finance is prompting some Fortune Global 500 companies to get into the ...Read moreStablecoins Meet Real World Commerce, but KYC Keeps Breaking the Experience
April 2, 2026
Operating under a nation’s laws doesn’t mean that a business is necessarily complying with them. Innovation, after all, can often outpace regulation. The digital asset sector is well aware of this ...Read moreWall Street Braces for 24/7 Trading as Tokenization Gains Traction
April 2, 2026
The idea of Wall Street’s “closing bell” could soon become a thing of the past. As blockchain technology shifts deeper into global finance, tokenized stocks — basically digital representations of traditional ...Read moreSoFi Deepens Blockchain Efforts With Business Banking Offering
April 2, 2026
SoFi is expanding its blockchain efforts with the debut of its Big Business Banking tool. The new offering is designed to let businesses manage fiat and cryptocurrency banking from a “single, nationally ...Read moreSolana-Based DeFi Exchange Suffers $285 Million Hack
April 2, 2026
Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Drift has suffered an exploit that drained $285 million in digital assets. According to a report by Bloomberg News Wednesday (April 1), the incident on the Solana blockchain ...Read moreRipple Debuts Digital Asset-Centric Treasury Management System
April 1, 2026
Ripple has introduced what it calls the first treasury management system with native digital asset capabilities. The system, dubbed Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, rolled out Wednesday (April 1) within ...Read moreStablecoin Plans Split as Banks Go Their Own Way
April 1, 2026At the end of 2025, when a consortium of ten global banks announced they were exploring a stablecoin tied to G7 currencies, the news carried the weight of inevitability. It ...Read moreChainalysis Launches AI Agents for Crypto Crime Investigations
March 31, 2026
In the escalating arms race of financial innovation and financial crime, the advantage between attackers and defenders rarely stays static. And that dynamic reality of ever-escalating 10-foot walls and 11-foot ladders ...Read moreECB Blockchain Report Challenges DeFi’s Decentralization Claims
March 31, 2026
Decentralized finance (DeFi) has, since its inception, sold itself on one premise: a financial system without intermediaries, governed collectively by its users through transparent, blockchain-based mechanisms. The appeal of that premise, ...Read moreValinor Raises $25 Million to Link Blockchain and Private Credit
March 30, 2026
Digital assets startup Valinor has raised $25 million to introduce private credit to the blockchain. That’s according to a report Monday (March 30) from Fortune, which noted that the private credit ...Read more