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-Square Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday the fintech firm is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses. This would add to Square's existing bitcoin-focused projects including a business to build an open developer platform, as well as a hardware wallet for the cryptocurrency.

Fintech firm Square Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said on Friday that the company is looking to build a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals as well as businesses.

* SQUARE CEO SAYS CO CONSIDERING BUILDING A BITCOIN MINING SYSTEM BASED ON CUSTOM SILICON & OPEN SOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES WORLDWIDE - TWEET Further company coverage:

Propell Holdings Ltd: * PARTNERSHIP WITH GLOBAL PAYMENTS FINTECH SQUARE INC. * PROPELL TO OFFER NATIVE PLATFORM INTEGRATION TO EXISTING SQUARE CUSTOMERS. * PARTNERSHIP TO HAVE A DOMESTIC FOCUS INITIALLY. * PROPELL WILL WORK WITH SQUARE TO PROVIDE ECOMMERCE PAYMENTS TO BUSINESSES IN INDUSTRIES Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

Square, Inc. (SQ) will release financial results for the third quarter of 2021 on Thursday, November 4, 2021, after market close. About Square, Inc. (SQ) Square, Inc. (SQ) builds tools to empower businesses and individuals to participate in the economy. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211007005954/en/ Source: Square, Inc.

Australia is set for its best year ever in M&A activity despite extended pandemic-induced lockdowns in its most populous states as cash-rich corporates and funds scoop up assets, with bankers seeing no sign of the momentum slowing.

* Global M&A hits all-time peak of $1.52 trillion in Q3. * Cheap financing drives desire for transformative deals. * Volumes double in Europe driven by private-equity buyouts. * U.S. activity up 32% to $581 billion, Asia Pacific up 21% * Frantic dealmaking surpasses all full-year records.

New integration allows Square Online sellers to sell on the leading platform for short-form mobile video - for free Today, Square and TikTok announced a new integration that will make it easy for sellers of all types and sizes to reach new customers and grow their sales online.

Square Inc (SQ): * SQUARE CARD LAUNCHES IN CANADA TO ADDRESS SMALL BUSINESSES' MAJOR PAIN POINT: CASH FLOW Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

Today Square, the globally trusted software, payments, and hardware solution for businesses of all sizes, launches in France. This press release features multimedia. “I’ve been using Square’s products both on-site and online over the past few months and it has revolutionised how I run my business,” said Anne-Laure Fonrose, Founder of Tatie Nanna.

Fivetran, a data integration startup, said on Monday it had raised $565 million in its latest funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the company's total valuation to $5.6 billion. The California-based company also announced it was buying HVR in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $700 million.

Anyone can be a banker these days, you just need the right code. Global brands from Mercedes and Amazon (AMZN) to IKEA and Walmart (WMT) are cutting out the traditional financial middleman and plugging in software from tech startups to offer customers everything from banking and credit to insurance. For established financial institutions, the warning signs are flashing.

* Embedded finance investment jumps in 2021, data shows. * Buy now pay later deals take centre stage. * Fintech market valuations leapfrog banks. By Anna Irrera and Iain Withers. Anyone can be a banker these days, you just need the right code.

Square Inc (SQ): * SQUARE ANNOUNCES EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM TO ITS PRODUCT ECOSYSTEM FOR SPANISH BUSINESSES. * PROGRAM, WITH LIMITED SPACE, IS AVAILABLE TO ALL TYPES OF COMPANIES THAT WANT TO TEST SQUARE'S SERVICES PRIOR TO GENERAL AVAILABILITY.

The program, with limited space, is available to all types of companies that want to test Square's services prior to general availability. Square services include point-of-sale software and hardware to accept in-store and online payments, as well as tools to build an online store.

Square Inc (SQ): * SQUARE, INC. JOINS OPEN INVENTION NETWORK COMMUNITY Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

Open Invention Network, the organization formed to safeguard open source software and the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that Square, Inc. (SQ) has joined as a community member.

Powerful ecosystem of software, payments, and hardware products makes Square an ideal technology partner for large organizations like stadiums In a first-of-its-kind, 10-year partnership, Square has been selected as the exclusive point-of-sale, payments, software, and merchant services provider for the new SoFi Stadium, home to the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams, and Hollywood Park, ...

- A third of U.S. consumers who used "buy now, pay later" services have fallen behind on one or more payments, and 72% of those said their credit score declined, a new study published by personal finance company Credit Karma showed.

A third of U.S. consumers who used "buy now, pay later" services have fallen behind on one or more payments, and 72% of those said their credit score declined, a new study published by personal finance company Credit Karma showed.