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Digital PaymentsWhat’s Behind Square’s Stock Price Surge?
Wall Street has famously been called “both voting machine and weighing machine.” Of course, voting is a bit of popularity contest, and...
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InvestmentsSquare Rally Sees Firm’s Valuation Nearing Major Banks
With a rally in shares, Square‘s valuation is approaching the level of some of the biggest U.S. banks, Bloomberg reports. Since May,...
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RetailSquare: Albuquerque Sees Biggest Increase In Online Sellers
As omnichannel retail becomes pivotal for success in the long haul, merchants in cities big and small are harnessing eCommerce. Square has seen...
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DeliverySquare Powers On-Demand Delivery For Merchants
To let merchants send out delivery drivers for orders made on their websites, Square unveiled availability of its On-Demand Delivery for Square...
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SMBsPayments Processors, Merchant Settlement and the SMB Cash Crunch
The pandemic has spurred a shift in the payments ecosystem, as businesses of all stripes have seen the need to keep cash...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Buys P2P Startup Verse
Square Inc., the San Francisco-based payments platform, has announced it purchased Verse, the Spanish mobile app startup that allows users to make payments instantly...
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Digital PaymentsChargeback Fears Prompts Delay Of Merchant Funds
Like many small businesses, Bluebonnet Photography has been hurt by the pandemic as customers have canceled photo shoots, The Wall Street Journal...
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SMBsHow Big Tech And FinTech Are Trying to Save Main Street SMBs
Most businesses have been hit hard by the global pandemic, but perhaps no segment has been more crippled or left with a...
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CryptocurrencySquare Cash App Allows Automatic Bitcoin Purchases
Consumers will now be able to make automatic purchases of bitcoin via Cash App, and in smaller satoshi denominations that could lead...
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NewsToday In Payments: Amazon Eyes JCPenney Buy; Stimulus Payments To Be Sent Via Visa Prepaid Debit Card
In today’s top news, Amazon could be in talks to buy JCPenney, and 4 million stimulus payments will be sent to consumers...
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B2B PaymentsLooking Beyond The Biggest Banks For SMB Relief
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has dealt some difficult lessons, even to the largest Main Street lenders, as financiers struggle to meet...
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NewsGaming Disbursements, Fitness Studios, Georgia’s Reopening Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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EarningsWhat Earnings Portend For Payments, Lending, Fitness And The Gig Economy
For the last several weeks speculation has run rampant on what the real effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown would...
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EarningsEarnings Reports from FIS to PayPal Herald Point of Sale’s ‘New Normal’
For companies like Fiserv, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), PayPal and others, selling terminals, offering payments platforms and designing checkout buttons, top...
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SMBsHow Square’s Results Spotlight Main Street SMBs’ Resilience — And (Cash) Challenges
Earnings season provides a wealth of data — of numbers and acronyms, a snapshot of balance sheet strengths or weaknesses. And often,...
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Square Challenges PayPal With Branded Online Checkout Button
Square has launched an alternative to PayPal, according to VentureBeat. The new payment tool was designed for small businesses looking to move...
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NewsToday In Payments: Frontier Retracts $39 ‘More Room’ Fee On Flights; Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
In today’s top news, Frontier Airlines retracted its $39 “More Room” fee to ensure an empty seat between passengers, and Square released...
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EarningsSquare Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
Square reported earnings Wednesday (May 6) for the first quarter that showed slowing gross payment volumes, impacted by the pandemic and the...
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Digital BankingFinTech Faces Hurdles Making SBA Loans
PayPal Holdings Inc., Square Inc. and Intuit Inc., three California technology companies, all wanted a piece of the federal government’s $350 billion loan...
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CoronavirusJack Dorsey Designates $1B In Square Equity To COVID-19 Relief
Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he will donate 28 percent of his wealth to help fund coronavirus relief, according to...
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LoansPlaid Offers Lenders Payroll Data To Expedite SMB Loans
Plaid, a startup being acquired by Visa, wants to help money get to those who need loans faster. To do so, it’s...
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NewsToday In Payments: Airbnb Execs Take Less Pay; Venmo, Square Cash Vie To Disperse Stimulus Funds
In today’s top news, Airbnb’s executives will forego six months of salary, while the company pauses $800 million in marketing plans, and...
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Payment MethodsVenmo, Square Cash Vie For Stimulus Funds Distribution
Venmo and Cash App want to be considered as ways the U.S. government could deliver its stimulus funds to help the coronavirus-wrecked...
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Sizzle/FizzleBig Fizzle: The Recession Comes, Quickly
The numbers only begin to tell a tale — one where the ending seems far off, shrouded in mystery, and more than...
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NewsToday In Payments: COVID-19 Triggers Job Losses; JPMC First Big Bank To Shutter Branches As Virus Spreads
In today’s top news, due to the coronavirus, over 3,600 workers have lost their jobs and JPMC has temporarily closed 1,000 branches....
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BankingFDIC Approves Square For Banking License
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) gave the green light to an application from the FinTech firm Square to create a de...
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InternationalCoronavirus Update: US Cos See Impact, China Begins To Reopen For Business
Facebook has cancelled its annual F8 developers’ conference over concerns about the coronavirus, reports said. More specifically, the social media company cancelled...
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EarningsSquare Cash App Users Grow 60 Pct YOY
Square has posted Q4 earnings results, showing continued evolution from the firm’s roots 11 years ago as a point-of-sale payments processor with on-site...
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B2B PaymentsOpen Banking Deepens Its SMB Accounting, Lending Presence
As Open Banking spreads further into the small business (SMB) financial services market, accounting and lending platforms are taking advantage. This week’s...
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B2B PaymentsXero Partners With Square For Faster B2B Payments
Cloud accounting firm Xero and payments services company Square are collaborating to offer small businesses a tool for faster invoicing and payments,...
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POS InnovationSquare For Retail On Register Integrates POS, Payments And Storefront On Single Platform
Square For Retail is now available on Square Register, allowing the retail point-of-sale (POS) solution to run on Square’s end-to-end, integrated POS...
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Data DiveData Dive, New Offerings Edition: Square, FICO And Mastercard
With so much happening on the world stage between Davos and the Lunar New Year, headlines in the U.S. last week might...
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CryptocurrencySquare Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System
Square, the payments provider operated by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, won a patent to debut new tech, allowing users with different assets...
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Payment MethodsTwitter Rumored To Be Considering In-Tweet Tipping
Twitter could be working on a way to “tip” people on the social media platform, though the company has so far denied...
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RetailHow Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
Serving the needs of Americas millions of micro-merchants and mom-and-pop shops is one of those business plans that always sounds much easier...
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B2B PaymentsMobile Payment Terminals Get B2B-Ready
Square‘s mobile card reader undoubtedly made a significant impact on the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) market, and kick-started a slew of recent innovations...
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NewsTop News In Payments: FreshBooks Unveils Same-Day Deposits; Amazon Australia Teams With Zip Co
In today’s top payments news, FreshBooks has integrated with JPMorgan Chase’s WePay to provide small businesses with same-day as well as next-day deposits. Also, Amazon Australia is...
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EarningsSquare Cash Bolstered By Bitcoin
Square’s investors were happy as the market closed Wednesday (Nov. 6); the payments firm reported stronger-than-expected results for Q4 and a brighter...
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Payment MethodsP2P Payments’ Rising Appeal Beyond Millennials
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments are exploding. P2P payment network Zelle’s Q3 results show its year-over-year payment values rose by 58 percent, while transaction volume...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsDoorDash Acquires Square’s Caviar In $410M Deal
Payments company Square has announced the completion of a deal to sell food delivery service Caviar to rival delivery company DoorDash, according...
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CryptocurrencyTwitter CEO Invests In CoinList Crypto Firm
The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is investing in CoinList, a company that helps startups raise capital through cryptocurrency sales. The Wall...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionssimPRO Taps Square To Power Field Service Payments
Business management cloud solutions simPRO announced that it is partnering with Square to provide payment processing options to field service professionals, according...
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Consumer FinanceSquare Cash Offers Free In-App Stock Trading
The popular Cash app, owned by Square, now has the ability for users to buy and sell stocks. CNBC is reporting that...
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NewsTop News In Payments: Square Unveils CBD Early Access Program; New York Examines Payroll Tech Industry
Today in the payments news roundup, Square is rolling out CBD early access program that will allow U.S. vendors to sell CBD items....
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Merchant InnovationVendors Can Now Use Square For CBD Sales
Square has announced that it’s launching a CBD early access program, which will allow vendors in the United States to sell CBD...
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B2B PaymentsSquare Warns Glitch May Prevent Transfers To Biz Bank Accounts
Payments technology company Square has acknowledged a technical glitch that prevented one small business in Toronto, Canada, from receiving funds in its...
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Mobile PaymentsSquare Defends New Pricing Model Amid Growing Merchant Costs
Square is defending its decision to boost costs for smaller transactions. The company announced on Tuesday (Sept. 24) that it will now...
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SMBsSquare: Why We Want To Innovate Payroll For SMBs
The average SMB owners on the eve of starting their first business is a person with a passion. They have a good...
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NewsTop News In Payments: Trulioo Notches $70M In New Funding; Square Rolls Out EIN Assistant
Today in the payments news roundup, Trulioo has notched $70 million in new funding. Also, Square has announced a tool to aid businesses...
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SMBsSquare Launches SMB Tax ID Tool
Square has announced a new, free tool to help businesses file for an Employer Identification Number (EIN) called the EIN Assistant, according...
