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Square’s Tidal Buy: Making Waves For Super App Sea Change?
Square’s Tidal Buy: Making Waves For Super App Sea Change?
March 04, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

In the age of the super app, everything is linked. Which means that some enterprises which might seem to make strange bedfellows make for a power...

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Square Makes Deal For Majority Stake In Jay-Z’s Tidal Entertainment Platform
Square Makes Deal For Majority Stake In Jay-Z’s Tidal Entertainment Platform
March 04, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

San Francisco-based Square has struck a deal to acquire a majority ownership stake in Tidal, an “artist-led global music and entertainment platform.” According to a...

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Today In Payments: US SPAC Tailwind Hunting For European Unicorns; Zoom Expects Post-Pandemic Business To Remain Brisk
Today In Payments: US SPAC Tailwind Hunting For European Unicorns; Zoom Expects Post-Pandemic Business To...
March 02, 2021  |  News

In today’s top news, SPAC Tailwind is hunting for a European tech unicorn to take public, and Zoom expects remote business demand to continue post-pandemic....

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Square’s Bank Is Open For Business – Now What?
Square’s Bank Is Open For Business – Now What?
March 02, 2021  |  Digital Banking

Square gets a bank – and so, now what? It may be the case that the proverbial floodgates have opened for FinTechs to leverage what we...

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Square’s Utah Bank Now Open For Business
Square’s Utah Bank Now Open For Business
March 01, 2021  |  Banking

Square is now operating its state-chartered industrial bank, Square Financial Services, in Utah after the state’s Department of Financial Institutions gave it the green light,...

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Balance Sheets Ballooning With Bitcoin — A Harbinger Of DeFi To Come? 
Balance Sheets Ballooning With Bitcoin — A Harbinger Of DeFi To Come? 
March 01, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Balance sheets ballooning with bitcoin. For a smattering (but growing roster) of firms, adding bitcoin holdings as part of the typical corporate finance strategy of...

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Goodyear-Cooper Tire Merger, Cloud ATMs, BNPL Top This Week’s News
Goodyear-Cooper Tire Merger, Cloud ATMs, BNPL Top This Week’s News
February 26, 2021  |  The Weekender

In this week’s news, we saw the Goodyear-Cooper Tire merger heating up competition, along with new insight on cloud automated teller machines (ATMs) and buy...

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Today In Payments: Advance America, Western Union Team On Money Transfer Tools; Square Generates $1.7 Billion In Crypto Revenue
Today In Payments: Advance America, Western Union Team On Money Transfer Tools; Square Generates $1.7...
February 24, 2021  |  News

In today’s top news, Advance America is teaming with Western Union to offer its payment solutions, and Square generated $1.7 billion in revenue from cryptocurrency...

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Square: Omnichannel Sellers Accounted For More Than 50 Pct Of GPV In 4Q
Square: Omnichannel Sellers Accounted For More Than 50 Pct Of GPV In 4Q
February 24, 2021  |  Earnings

The digital shift has been firmly cemented in the wake of the pandemic, and merchants are meeting the challenge by meeting consumers where they want...

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