PayPal says it filed US applications to establish PayPal Bank, to offer savings accounts and cut its reliance on third parties when loaning to small businesses
Buy now, pay later firms and crypto companies are making moves left, right, and center to become banks, and PayPal wants to join the party. … Scott T Henderson : PayPal looking to become the latest Ut...
Chainalysis buys AI-agent security startup Alterya, sources say for ~$150M; Alterya is still in stealth mode but has clients including Coinbase, Square, Binance
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Block acquires Hifi, which launched in 2020 as a financial rights organization for artists and recently rolled out Cash Flow to pay artists a bi-monthly salary
Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup.
Square is changing its name to Block, effective December 10, and renaming Square Crypto to Spiral, as its business shifts toward technologies like blockchain
- Payments giant Square will change its corporate name to Block, effective Dec. 10. — The move comes as Square expands beyond …
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets
Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets
Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets known as tbDEX.
Plaid partners with Square, Stripe, and others to help consumers and businesses make payments funded by their bank accounts after its acquisition by Visa failed
The fintech is teaming up with Square, Stripe and dozens of others on a digital pay-by-bank offering
London-based point of sale provider SumUp acquires Fivestars, which offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants, for $317M
SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology …
Data integration startup Fivetran raises $565M Series D led by a16z at a $5.6B valuation and acquires enterprise data company HVR for $700M in cash and stock
- Fivetran acquires HVR and raised $565 million for data tech — Fivetran customers include Square, DocuSign, Forever 21
In an email to some Square Invoices users, Square says it's working on Invoices Plus, a paid version with some features from the free version, plus new ones
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