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Block Earnings Show Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin and Banking Ambitions
Block Earnings Show Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin and Banking Ambitions
November 07, 2024  |  Earnings

Block, formerly known as Square and the owner of Cash App, has distinct ambitions. And they vary for each of its business lines. Outside of Square and...

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Block-Owned TBD and Chipper Cash Partner on Cross-Border Payments in Africa
Block-Owned TBD and Chipper Cash Partner on Cross-Border Payments in Africa
May 15, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Block-owned TBD and African FinTech Chipper Cash partnered to facilitate B2C and B2B cross-border payments across 40 African countries. Chipper Cash has integrated with TBD’s open messaging protocol, tbDEX, to...

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Block Believes That Digital Payments Needs a Decentralized Identity Layer
Block Believes That Digital Payments Needs a Decentralized Identity Layer
November 03, 2023  |  Digital Payments

As the world moves forward, digital identity is becoming a crucial cornerstone of tomorrow’s innovations. This is truer than ever when it comes to the...

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Block Wants to Win With AI, Merchant Verticals and Banking 
Block Wants to Win With AI, Merchant Verticals and Banking 
November 02, 2023  |  Earnings

The return of Jack Dorsey to Square has been good news for its parent, Block. As PYMNTS reported, former Square CEO Alyssa Henry departed the company last month on Oct. 2,...

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Circle and TBD Aim to Launch DeFi-Focused Foundation
Circle and TBD Aim to Launch DeFi-Focused Foundation
October 23, 2023  |  Partnerships

TBD and Circle have launched a partnership centered around open source adoption of decentralized identity. The collaboration, announced Monday (Oct. 23), will also culminate in a non-profit founded...

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For Wearable Tech, Moving Beyond the Fitness Zone
For Wearable Tech, Moving Beyond the Fitness Zone
October 03, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

Look past Snapchat Spectacles, and the question remains: Who wants wearables, and what will they do with the devices once they have them? In the...

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One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV
One Year In, Removing The Masking Tape From EMV
September 19, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

Lapping its one-year anniversary, EMV adoption in the U.S. has had its share of triumph and challenges that still remain. In the latest installment of...

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Eliminating ‘Subscription Friction’
Eliminating ‘Subscription Friction’
September 12, 2016  |  PYMNTS Topic TBD

Merchants and consumers benefit from relationships that stretch out for a long time, with recurring payments, trust and knowledge of just what the consumer is...

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Loyalty Programs, The Blockchain Way
Loyalty Programs, The Blockchain Way
August 29, 2016  |  Blockchain

Loyalty programs are having trouble inspiring, well, loyalty. In the latest Topic TBD installment, Ron Quaranta, COO of loyyal, tells Karen Webster how new technology —...

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