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| SEP 8, 2021
Square: The US-based fintech, which acts as a neobank for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced in August 2021 that it will acquire Afterpay, an Australian BNPL company, in a deal worth about $29 billion. Afterpay, which operates in several countries, is also planning on entering consumer-side neobanking in its home market.
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| SEP 2, 2021
Taco Bell: The Tex-Mex-inspired fast food chain is experimenting with a new dining experience called Taco Bell Defy, a two-story, 3,000 square-foot structure with a kitchen on the top floor. It will include four drive-thru lanes with three of those lanes focused on mobile orders and pick-up.
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| SEP 1, 2021
Payments competitor Square also offers trading and has reaped the rewards of user base growth and increased engagement. The Square use case shows it’s possible for a payments firm to extend itself smoothly into trading and use the opportunity to offer a one-stop-shopping financial services experience.
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| AUG 31, 2021
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| AUG 30, 2021
The UK neobank wants to broaden its presence in Australia, including adding the ability to receive deposits. It’s got a decent shot at breaking through, but it needs to offer its full product suite to impress consumers.
Article
| AUG 30, 2021
Afterpay made headlines earlier this month when Square announced it will buy the Australia-based provider for $29 billion. The acquisition will give Afterpay access to Square's global seller network, which should help propel its payments volume.
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| AUG 29, 2021
Times Square experienced 300,000 visitors over the last month, a 30% increase from just two months earlier. The city’s popular Fifth Avenue shopping district regained 92% of the foot traffic it saw in 2019, with Soho reaching 110% versus 2019, per geospatial analytics firm Orbital Insight.
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| AUG 27, 2021
On average, Dollar General stores are 7,400 square feet, compared with Walmart stores at around 178,000 square feet and Walgreens stores at 14,500 square feet on average.
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| AUG 20, 2021
What’s interesting: The square footage of Amazon’s stores will be only a third the size of average department stores—30,000 square feet, as opposed to the traditional 100,000 square feet. What we don’t know yet:. Which brands will be offered. But it’s almost certain that Amazon’s private-label brands will be featured in some way.
Article
| AUG 16, 2021
Pairing up the fintech’s products for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the banking giant’s existing suite will give U.S. Bank a formidable lineup to compete with digital challengers like Brex and Square.
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| AUG 13, 2021
Square. Wix.
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| AUG 13, 2021
The API issuer-processor saw total processing volume increase 76% year over year in Q2 driven by clients like Square and JPMorgan—but going forward, diversification might be the key to helping Marqeta balance business growth.
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| AUG 12, 2021
Afterpay could become an even more formidable newcomer once its pending sale to US-based fintech Square closes. The tie-up, valued at around $29 billion, will create a company big enough to endure a full licensing process, should it choose to.
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| AUG 10, 2021
NAB’s Citigroup deal bulks it up further as Afterpay/Square looms: The Australian banking giant’s unsecured loan book will get a big boost from the proposed deal. That and a platform upgrade adds even more heft to NAB in any face-off against Afterpay and Square.
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| AUG 6, 2021
On today's episode, we discuss what brands are doing at the Olympics, when time spent on digital video might equal linear, Google's new privacy timeline, the significance of Square buying Afterpay, why marketers must start thinking in 3D, how to individually achieve “perfect productivity,” and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer director of reports editing Rahul Chadha, analyst Blake Droesch, and principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna.
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| AUG 3, 2021
Co-brand card issuers and brand partners have an opportunity to reimagine their offerings in the pandemic’s wake. Leaning on newfound digitization and shifting spending habits can help providers tailor their offerings in ways that widen their net, grow volume, and appeal to the maximum number of customers.
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| AUG 3, 2021
The deal for the buy now, pay later provider, worth about $29B, hands Square an opportunity to roll out a consumer-side neobank in the US and to straddle two neobanking segments in Australia.
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| AUG 3, 2021
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| JUL 30, 2021
These enhancements, coupled with the company’s decision to raise the weekly crypto purchase limit to $100,000, can help make the service more attractive to customers and help it stay ahead as competitors like Square lean into the space.
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| JUL 27, 2021
Dorsey is big on Bitcoin: He recently announced that his digital payments firm Square will develop decentralized finance services on the Bitcoin blockchain, and he invested in a Bitcoin development fund in February. Amazon. The ecommerce leviathan posted an opening on its payments team last week to develop its Digital Currency and Blockchain strategy, per Business Insider.
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| JUL 27, 2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (who also heads Square) suggested Bitcoin payments could soon be accepted on the social media platform. And payments giant PayPal just hired former Chainanalysis exec and crypto expert Jesse Spiro to lead its crypto regulatory affairs, likely to join its budding crypto business unit.
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| JUL 22, 2021
Privacy issues might also have contributed to the recent surge in digital wallet complaints: In April, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received 970 complaints, nearly double that of July 2020, and many were related to PayPal and Square, which operates Cash App. Meanwhile, Venmo’s interface has become cramped since the app introduced new features and products.
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| JUL 21, 2021
Customers can make instant transfers between their Square Savings and Square Checking accounts for free, and are also spared any account minimums, overdraft fees, and recurring fees. Also, businesses soon will be able to deposit checks directly into their account through the Square Point of Sale app.
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| JUL 21, 2021
Marketers can leverage the Stories placement in Campaign Manager to insert either vertical or square image ads, or video ads. As of June 2021, Story ads are available in all countries except China and being tested by more than 900 advertisers. February 2021: Rolled out Stories for Pages to marketers, including a swipe-up function to direct audiences to a URL, such as that of a landing page.
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| JUL 19, 2021
Square announced a platform to help developers create DeFi applications in a bid to recreate its crypto revenue success with DeFi.