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Crypto Firms Fight to Supply Payments Tech to Twitter
Crypto Firms Fight to Supply Payments Tech to Twitter
November 03, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

There’s widespread agreement that Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into an all-in-one super app that includes payments. Let the free-for-all begin. While Musk, who...

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CE100 Index Led Higher by Peloton’s 25% Surge
CE100 Index Led Higher by Peloton’s 25% Surge
October 10, 2022  |  Connected Economy

The whipsaw action in the stock market feels a bit more like whiplash. A brief few days of rallies, and then a plummet — and...

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Square Now Opens iPhone Tap to Pay to All US Sellers
Square Now Opens iPhone Tap to Pay to All US Sellers
September 28, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Square’s Early Access Program for Tap to Pay on iPhone is officially over and the payment option is now available to all sellers in the...

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JPMorgan: Desire Waning for Crypto as Payment Method
JPMorgan: Desire Waning for Crypto as Payment Method
September 20, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Demand for using cryptocurrencies as a payments method is falling off as the market has shed an estimated $2 trillion in value in under a...

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EMEA Daily: Paysend Launches New Instant Payment Service
EMEA Daily: Paysend Launches New Instant Payment Service
September 15, 2022  |  emea

Today in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, U.K.-based FinTech Paysend launched a new instant payment product, and Adyen has integrated Block’s Cash App as...

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Adyen to Become First FinTech Platform to Add Block’s Cash App
Adyen to Become First FinTech Platform to Add Block’s Cash App
September 15, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

Financial technology platform Adyen has partnered with Block’s mobile payment method Cash App to become the first such platform to offer Cash App outside of...

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Block Will Let Users Make Cash App Payments Outside Its Network
Block Will Let Users Make Cash App Payments Outside Its Network
September 02, 2022  |  Retail

Block, which was formerly called Square, has begun letting users of its Cash App make payments on eCommerce sites that aren’t part of the Square...

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Klarna, Block, Sezzle Results: Merchants, Consumers Flocking to Short-Term Financing
Klarna, Block, Sezzle Results: Merchants, Consumers Flocking to Short-Term Financing
August 26, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

At this writing, shares of Affirm are down about 15%. In part that’s due to guidance that gross merchandise volumes will slow and that the...

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Australia’s Afterpay, Westpac End 2-Year Partnership
Australia’s Afterpay, Westpac End 2-Year Partnership
August 26, 2022  |  Partnerships

Australian payments company Afterpay has ended its partnership with Westpac Banking after Afterpay canceled a smartphone app it was running with the bank. Afterpay will...

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