Behind popular real-time payment apps like Square, Venmo and Zelle is Visa Direct. “It’s a reversal of the traditional Visa system we think of it as purchase where you can pull money from your ...

Square has been on a rocket ship this past year and its valuation has gone through the roof. At Wednesday's close, it was trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 278 (compared to 43.5 for Visa).

Payments made with cash and check account for about $17 trillion worth of transactions made around the world every year. For Square (NYSE: SQ) and Visa (NYSE: V) that adds up to a massive potential ...

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Visa forces banks and merchants to agree to “volume requirements” which induce them to direct a large amount of their transactions to Visa or else face higher fees, according to the complaint. More ...

Visa Inc. took a significant stake in mobile-payments company Square Inc. prior to its initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Square, Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey's disruptive mobile payments service, just received a strategic investment from Visa, TechCrunch reports. Last quarter Square did $66 million in payment volume ...

Square (NYSE: SQ) and Visa (NYSE: V) have delivered big gains to shareholders as digital forms of payment gradually replace cash and checks. But.

Payments made with cash and check account for about $17 trillion worth of transactions made around the world every year. For Square (NYSE: SQ) and Visa (NYSE: V) that adds up to a massive ...

Visa (V 0.60%) and Square (XYZ 1.42%) are two of the best-known financial services companies in the world right now, but they're very different from an investment perspective.