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Alchemy Pay Teams Up With Worldpay To Connect Fiat To Web3 Economy
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 - 5:51pm | 345Singapore-based fintech startup Alchemy Pay joined hands with Worldpay to enable users to purchase cryptocurrencies through credit and debit cards. What Happened: Alchemy Pay is partnering with U.K.-based Worldpay to grant access to the former’s Visa and Mastercard payment rails. “...
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KeyBanc Lifts Square's Price Target To $115 After Encouraging Survey Results
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 3:06pm | 406Payment processor Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) continues to successfully evolve from its roots of facilitating credit card transactions based on KeyBanc's survey of 20 Square sellers. The Analyst KeyBanc Capital Markets' Josh Beck maintains an Overweight rating on Square with a price target...
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Why Square Is Guggenheim's Top Fintech Pick
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 11:35am | 516Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) is a lot more than a simple payment processor, in Guggenheim's view: the company's ever-expanding list of products and services makes it the analyst firm's "highest conviction name in fintech." The Analyst Guggenheim's Jeff Cantwell maintained a Buy...
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Square's 'Astronomical' Valuation No Longer A Concern For Buckingham
Monday, August 6, 2018 - 10:52am | 430Heading into Square Inc (NYSE: SQ)'s earnings report last Wednesday, Buckingham struggled with recommending the stock at an "astronomic" valuation of 57 times consensus 2020 EPS. Now that the stock is exiting a strong earnings report, the valuation "doesn't look as expensive...
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Square Gets Hip: More Upside To Come Despite Year-Long Run
Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 10:21am | 377Despite a more than 185 percent gain over the past year, analyst at Oppenheimer see even more upside ahead for Square Inc (NYSE: SQ). Analyst Jed Kelly initiated coverage of Square's stock with an Outperform rating and 12-18 month $35 price target. The case for owning Square's stock near...
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Cramer: Vantiv's Acquisition Of Worldplay Deserves More Attention
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 2:00pm | 405Vantiv Inc (NYSE: VNTV), a U.S.-based provider of payment processing services, acquired U.K-based Worldpay in a deal, which is being under-reported, despite the nearly $10 billion price tag on the acquisition, CNBC's Jim Cramer suggested. Vantiv's proposed acquisition of Worldpay is completely...
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Vetr Crowd Downgrades Square, Still Bullish On Stock
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 5:17pm | 157Shares of Square Inc (NYSE: SQ) were trading lower by nearly 7 percent on Monday, nearly erasing all of the stock's gains since early December. Meanwhile, the Vetr crowd downgraded Square's stock rating to four stars out of a possible five stars from a prior rating of 4.5 stars....
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SLIDESHOW: Top Payment Processor Stocks Swiping Away Attention
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 2:43pm | 80Payment technology has become as essential to our daily lives as carrying identification. This is due to the convenience of carrying credit cards as opposed to cash and coin. Other reasons include the global takeover of online shopping, which requires one to typically have a card to shop online....