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‘No longer just a payments company’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018. Anushree Fadnavis | Reuters Block executives no longer...
Expect a rally if there’s good news from retail giants & China
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday said that investors should keep an eye on retailer earnings and Covid news from China as indicators for how Wednesday’s trading session will go. If we get more...
Buy now, pay later is not a boom, it’s a bubble, Harvard fellow says
Most people love the convenience of buy now, pay later. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, installment payments have exploded in popularity along with a general surge in online shopping. Ini...
Visa crypto executive leaves for Softbank-backed start-up DriveWealth
Terry Angelos, Visa’s global head of fintech and crypto. DriveWealth One of Visa‘s top executives is leaving the payments giant for a brokerage technology start-up, CNBC has learned. Terry...
Under Armour, Cigna, DraftKings and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Under Armour (UAA) – The athletic apparel maker posted an adjusted first-quarter loss of 1 cent per share, compared with a profit estimate of ...
Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: DoorDash, Zillow and more
A DoorDash sign is pictured on a restaurant on the day they hold their IPO in New York, December 9, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Block — Shar...
Klarna to report buy now, pay later data to UK credit bureaus
Buy now, pay later giant Klarna says it will start reporting data on customers’ usage of its products to credit bureaus in the U.K., gearing up for incoming regulations aimed at reining in the s...
Gold House launches $30 million fund to invest in entrepreneurs of Asian descent
Megan Ruan knows firsthand how representation can impact funding for entrepreneurs. She recalled being the only woman of color working at a family office earlier in her career and running a portfolio ...
Fraud prevention start-up Seon raises funds to fight sanctions evasion
Fintechs have come under increased pressure to address Russian sanctions evasion, particularly amid concerns that their controls may be more lax than that of banks. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Im...
JetBlue, Eli Lilly, Occidental Petroleum and more
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Fintech Stocks Look Cheap. Why It Could Be Time to Buy.
Text size Wells Fargo has a strong outlook for the fintech sector. Dreamstime The fintech and digital payments sector has a new fan at Wells Fargo, who says the time to buy them is now. Analyst Jeff C...
Ethereum’s major upgrade is coming. Should you be more bullish on it than bitcoin?
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...
Investing app Acorns taps ‘choppy’ private markets at $1.9 billion valuation after scrapping SPAC
Noah Kerner, CEO of Acorns. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Acorns, the fintech start-up that scrapped plans to go public in January, has raised $300 million from private investors, CNBC has learned. The savings ...
The pros and cons of installment payments
You can use buy now, pay later for just about everything these days. Since the start of the pandemic, installment payments have exploded in popularity along with a general surge in online shopping. In...
Block CFO says customers repay almost all buy now, pay later loans
Nearly all of Afterpay’s customers repaid their installments in 2021, Block CFO Amrita Ahuja told CNBC on Thursday when questioned about the Cash App parent’s acquisition of the buy-now, p...
Raytheon, Block, Tesla, Foot Locker and more
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Foot Locker, Etsy, Block, Carvana, Dish Network and more
Etsy displayed on the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square New York. Paul Zimmerman | Nasdaq | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Etsy — Shares of the e-commerce shop...
Foot Locker, Cinemark, Dell and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Foot Locker (FL) – Foot Locker shares slumped 16.1% in the premarket after the athletic apparel and shoe retailer gave a weaker-than-expected ...
How Jack Dorsey grew Square from start-up to payments powerhouse
Jack Dorsey (L), CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, live casts video while standing outside the New York Stock Exchange for the IPO of Square, in New York November 19, 2015. Lucas Jackson | Reuters In ...
Crypto is volatile, but KPMG Canada just added bitcoin and ether to its balance sheet. Here’s why
KPMG in Canada has added an unknown amount of bitcoin and ether to its corporate balance sheet. The firm declined to disclose the amount of cryptocurrencies it purchased, but Kunal Bhasin, blockchain...
SoftBank-backed fintech DriveWealth is adding crypto to take on Coinbase’s ‘unsustainable’ fees
Bob Cortright of DriveWealth Source: DriveWealth DriveWealth, the SoftBank-backed start-up that helps fintech firms like Revolut offer stocks, is getting into cryptocurrency trading, CNBC has learned....
Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...
Citigroup CEO faces disgruntled workers, regulators’ demands in tough first year
Citi CEO Jane Fraser makes brief remarks during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and fellow chief executives to discuss the looming federal debt limit in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisen...
Capri Holdings, Boston Scientific, Brinker and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Capri Holdings (CPRI) – The company behind Michael Kors and other luxury brands reported better-than-expected earnings for its latest quarter ...
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner’s small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy: Mark Shriner Mark Shriner needed help. It was spring 2020, and his coffee shop in Linc...
Odell Beckham Jr. took his $750K salary in bitcoin — how much did it cost him?
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made headlines last November when he announced he would be converting his 2021 salary into bitcoin. The problem for Beckham: that bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.41...
Moderna, Zynga, Lululemon, Tilray and more
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