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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.
The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It
October 21, 2026
Remember travel agents? Not the AI kind. The real people kind. For anyone under the age of 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into a little storefront with a poster ...Read moreHasbro Hopes for Happy Holiday Season as Revenue Rises 15%
October 20, 2026
Hasbro saw 15% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter, fueled by its Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 20) earnings press release. “Despite ...Read moreSquare Shifts Business Credit Cards to Marqeta Platform to Speed Credit Innovation
October 19, 2026
Square has consolidated its credit and debit programs on Marqeta’s card issuing platform, saying this will enable the company to bring new credit features to market more quickly. With this move, Square migrated ...Read moreClosing the Efficiencies Gap
October 19, 2026
The assessment of efficiencies has been among the most contested topics in the review of the European Commission’s Merger Guidelines. Under the existing framework, efficiency claims have proved exceptionally difficult ...Read moreSquare Launches Voice AI-Equipped Kiosk to Tackle QSR Staffing Shortages
October 14, 2026
Square introduced a new flagship self-service kiosk that features artificial intelligence-powered software, voice capabilities and a large touch display, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. Designed for ...Read moreCFTC Wants to Redefine Swaps to Include Prediction Platforms
October 11, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) wants to define financial swaps to include event contracts based on sports, political, cultural and weather-related events. The regulator published a proposed rulemaking plan Friday ...Read moreBlock, Parent of Cash App and Square, Faces FTC Probe Over Frozen Accounts
October 8, 2026
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Block Inc. following consumer complaints involving frozen accounts, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday, bringing fresh regulatory attention to the financial technology ...Read moreKaren Webster Says the Agentic Enterprise Is Already Here
October 6, 2026
October. Some readers mark it on the calendar for the return of autumn and chilly temperatures. Others get ready for the full dose of sports that comes with the NFL ...Read moreApple Readies Launch of Smart Home Hub
September 30, 2026
Apple plans to announce a new smart home product and two updated ones on Oct. 13, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Sept. 30), citing unnamed sources. The new product is a smart home ...Read moreRelay Raises $36 Million to Turn the Frontline Radio Into an AI Assistant
September 30, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Relay’s Chris Chuang In 1940, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing, the company that would become Motorola, built a handheld two-way radio for the U.S. Army. Soldiers ...Read more
Block’s AI Overhaul Starts Showing Up in Results
August 5, 2026
Block drew plenty of attention earlier this year when CEO Jack Dorsey announced plans to cut roughly 40% of the company’s workforce and put artificial intelligence at the center of ...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
Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge
October 20, 2026
Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Scams Get Personal: Why ...Read moreAnalysts Expect Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Debut at Apple’s Oct. 28 Event
October 19, 2026
Apple will host a product launch event dubbed “Pro and tell” on Oct. 28, and analysts expect the company to introduce its first touch-screen MacBook Pro, according to multiple media reports. Greg ...Read morePNC Combats AI-Enabled Deposit Flight With Better Tech and Service
October 15, 2026
As technology makes it easier for clients to move deposits in search of higher interest rates, banks must compete by providing better solutions, PNC Financial Services Group Chairman and CEO ...Read moreAmazon and Walmart Are Turning Retail Efficiency Into Someone Else’s Expense
October 15, 2026
Retail’s next great efficiency breakthrough may come with an invoice addressed to someone else. As Walmart pushes robotics deeper into its distribution network, and Amazon brings artificial intelligence into consumers’ everyday conversations ...Read moreSquare Launches Voice AI-Equipped Kiosk to Tackle QSR Staffing Shortages
October 14, 2026Square introduced a new flagship self-service kiosk that features artificial intelligence-powered software, voice capabilities and a large touch display, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. Designed for ...Read moreJ&J Spotlights FDA-Approved Surgical Robot Amid $100 Billion Revenue Push
October 13, 2026
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with ...Read moreCyber Risks Turn Physical When Hackers Control the Retail Thermostat
October 13, 2026
An unidentified hacking group, or several of them, wrought havoc across hundreds of European supermarkets this week. The root cause of the fiasco wasn’t stolen customer data. It was temperature ...Read moreFinCEN Clears Path for Digital IDs in Bank Customer Verification
October 13, 2026
Federal financial regulators have clarified that banks and credit unions can use government-issued digital credentials to verify customers’ identities, potentially streamlining account onboarding. But according to an analysis by Anderson ...Read moreMeta and Sierra’s Poppy Lets Customers Set Limits for AI Agents
October 12, 2026
When a personal artificial intelligence agent makes a purchase or fixes a problem for someone, it often signs in as that customer and clicks through pages built for people, according ...Read moreConvenience Stores Put Vertical SaaS to a Multi-Business Test
October 12, 2026
Vertical software as a service has generally benefited from specialization. A restaurant platform can be designed around menus, kitchens, ordering and tips. Retail software tracks merchandise, inventory and checkout. Fuel systems ...Read more
Stablecoins Need to Get Behind Cards, Not Replace Them
October 21, 2026
Watch more: Paymentology Says AI Agents Must Earn the Right to Move Money The stablecoin industry has spent possibly too much time trying to reinvent checkout. Consumers already have a nearly universal ...Read moreKansas City Fed Flags Funding Challenges From Tokenized Deposits
October 19, 2026
Banks are developing tokenized deposits to give corporate customers faster access to their money. In doing so, they are making the deposits they use for funding easier to move. A research ...Read moreMastercard Extends Risk Capabilities to Stablecoin Payments
October 19, 2026
Mastercard introduced a risk intelligence solution designed to enable more secure stablecoin payments, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) press release. The new Stablecoin Security solution combines payment and ...Read moreStablecoins Move From Making Payments to Making Loans
October 19, 2026
More digital assets are moving into lending strategies, turning stablecoin and cryptocurrency holdings into credit exposure for investors seeking yield. The growth shows how the uses for digital assets are ...Read moreJPMorgan Brings Its Deposit Token to the Ethereum Blockchain
October 19, 2026
JPMorganChase is reportedly expanding its blockchain payments footprint by bringing its deposit token to Ethereum. JPM Coin will now be available to the bank’s institutional clients on the Ethereum network, JPMorgan representatives told Bloomberg ...Read moreCredit Unions Could Win Younger Members Through Payments
October 19, 2026
Credit unions could find a more receptive audience for digital currencies by offering members something they already recognize: a digital wallet. That’s the opportunity outlined in “Digital Currency at the Credit ...Read moreGetting Money Back Could Be Stablecoins’ Next Big Selling Point
October 15, 2026
A company sends half a million dollars to an overseas supplier using stablecoins. The transaction settles in seconds, the blockchain confirms delivery, and the payment provider reports success. Then the supplier ...Read moreStripe’s Privy and Ripple Bring Crypto Wallet Infrastructure to XRPL Blockchain
October 14, 2026
Privy, a Stripe-owned company that helps businesses build cryptocurrency wallets, partnered with Ripple to bring its wallets to the XRPL blockchain, Privy said in a Tuesday (Oct. 13) blog post. The ...Read moreDigital Assets: The Changing Talent Picture
October 13, 2026
Banks investing in digital money need more than the technology to issue, custody or move digital assets. They need people who can connect those capabilities to the systems and controls ...Read moreStablecoins Have a $10 Million Problem: All That Money Is Going Back to the Bank
October 12, 2026
A business receives $10 million in stablecoins on Monday, and by Friday, much of it could be back in a bank account. The payment worked. The problem, however, is what ...Read more