Mobile point of sale providers such as Square are under pressure to broaden services beyond payments as the transaction hardware becomes commoditized.
To that end, Square is
For example, sellers using SAP Business One can access a single view for payments and sales data, and access to financial services and hardware to accept chip cards and Apple Pay.
In just the past few months, Square has pushed deeper into
Square has long offered
The card network's recent partnerships attempt to build demand for new forms of artificial intelligence while feeding "value added" revenue — a nonpayment fee metric that investors watch closely.
Christopher Phelan, President Donald Trump's nominee to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, declined to directly answer questions about recent inflation data and the effects of tariffs on consumers during a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
The $44 billion fintech also appointed a new CTO and head of engineering as it foregrounds artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making.
CEOs of payments companies and fintechs such as Block and Bolt have pointed to AI as a driving force behind layoffs at their organizations. But Tania Babina, an associate professor of finance at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business, says there is no systematic evidence that AI is taking jobs.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Thursday morning that the central bank recently finalized a new organizational structure for its supervision and regulation division.
The largest U.S. bank by assets named two co-presidents as part of its latest executive management changes. Marianne Lake, who was widely viewed as a contender to succeed CEO Jamie Dimon, will retire from the company.
