Mobile Payments Providers, Square IPO, NYSE: SQ (video)

Square has filed for an IPO (initial public offering), seeking to raise $275 million, with a listing on NYSE under the symbol "SQ" - Square Inc., the mobile-payments company was founded, and is led, by Twitter Inc. (twitter.com) Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey. Bloomberg's Reed Stevenson reports on "Bloomberg Markets," October 15, 2015.

Last week Square filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not been determined. Square intends to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SQ.” Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan are acting as lead joint book-running managers for the proposed offering. Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, and Stifel are acting as additional book-running managers for the proposed offering, and LOYAL3 Securities, Inc. is acting as a co-manager. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. (Source: Squareup.com; link and emphasis added)

Domain names of mobile payment providers referenced in the video above:

• squareup.com  (note: square.com redirects to squareup.com)
• firstdata.com
• paypal.com
• stripe.com

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Stripe: Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes. One touch to pay on iOS. Easy Apple Pay integration for business built on Stripe. Online payments and via mobile apps: "Stripe is a developer-friendly way to accept payments online and in mobile apps. We process billions of dollars a year for thousands of companies of all sizes."

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More about Stripe: Stripe is the breakthrough startup of 2014: "... For Stripe, the year [2014] started off with the news that it had raised $80 million in funding at an eye-popping valuation of $1.75 billion and ended with the news that it had raised another $70 million at double that valuation. In between, the startup scored a number of high-profile partnerships including with Apple, Twitter, Alipay and others... Stripe used some of its funding to invest in international efforts; the service is now available in 18 countries. It also continued to build out its suite of supplementary services, including launching a tool that lets businesses charge customers in whatever currency they're comfortable with. "Everyone is kind of focused on the fact that we do payments and basing a lot of their assumptions about our business on that," Cordova says. "In reality, we are building the products and tools that help businesses run efficiently... without needing a 50 person tax and compliance team." That is what Stripe will be working to solve globally in 2015 and beyond. "We don't really see anybody else approaching the problem the way that we do and thinking about building the platform of Internet commerce," Patrick told me in our earlier interview. "We want to increase the GDP of the Internet."

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