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M&A, Bitcoin Trading Adds $8B In Market Cap To Square

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Square’s founder and chief executive, Jack Dorsey, helped to enable merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method back in 2014. Square’s gross payment volume could reach $409 billion in 2026, or 4.1 payment volume, RBC Capital Markets analyst Daniel Perlin predicted in a recent note to clients. Didn’t see much.

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Wells Fargo Seeks Bidders For Private-Label Credit Card Unit

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In 2014, then-CFO John Shrewsberry told investors at a conference that the bank was looking to add to its private-label credit card business. Debit card POS purchase volume hit $102.9 Selling the private-label credit card unit would be a business reversal for the financial services group. billion in the third quarter, up 11.1

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Speculating On XRP Speculation: Bad Trade Or Bad Blood?

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All told, about $9 billion has been wiped off XRP’s market cap in the last few sessions. Forbes reported early this month that in 2014, McCaleb “became disgruntled and departed, ’forking,’ or copying, XRP’s code to start rival venture Stellar.”. Yet, the average daily volume for XRP has not changed much. Therein may lie a tale.

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2018 Was The Best Year On Record For New US Unicorns

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More US startup unicorns were born in Q4’18 than in any other financial quarter in history, capping off the best year on record for unicorn births in the United States. While fewer seed and early-stage deals are taking place , an increasing volume of large, later-stage deals is bringing yearly funding up and creating more unicorns.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Another Tough Week

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The estimated market cap is at just over $16.6 Founded in August 2014, ShapeShift’s platform allows users, without signups or logins, the ability to exchange any of the 35 digital currencies it supports — including bitcoin, Zcash, ether and dash — for any other. At the time of writing, one bitcoin was worth $1,023.68, down 1.61

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Vantiv Brings its Payment and Processing Solutions to the USPS

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Pictured (left to right): Coy Christensen, VP Product Development, and Jesse Kunicki, Development Manager, for Vantiv, demonstrating TriPOS at FinovateFall 2014 in New York. Vantiv became a public company in March 2012 (market cap $6 billion), and trades under the NYSE symbol, VNTV.

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Mobile Payments: CakePay Is Eating the World

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No doubt The Cheesecake Factory is taking a cue from Starbucks, which launched its Mobile Order & Pay service in December 2014. That represents approximately 4% of the total volume of payments Starbucks recorded in Q2 2016––a pretty incredible adoption rate for a technology still in its infancy. That’s a lot of coffee.