Square Becoming More Like a Bank
Business Wars Daily
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4.6 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, October 9, and we’re looking at Square vs. RobinHood Financial.
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| 1:09.5 | I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Tuesday, October 9th. |
| 1:14.3 | You might know the company's Square because your barista used it on a mobile device to swipe your credit card last time you bought a latte, but Square also has one of the most popular |
| 1:19.3 | peer-to-peer payment apps, appropriately called Cash. |
| 1:23.3 | It lets friends or family transfer money to each other from their phones, like PayPal or Venmo. |
| 1:28.8 | You can also use it to pay for goods and services. |
| 1:31.6 | Millions of people, many of whom don't have a traditional bank account, use it every month. |
| 1:36.7 | And that's been great for Square, which says it's sitting on $200 million of deposits. |
| 1:42.4 | What to do with all that dough? |
| 1:45.8 | Well, if Square were a bank, |
| 1:50.9 | it might let you earn interest on the cash in your account. If it were a brokerage, it would let you buy stock. It is, of course, neither, at least for now. But it might soon be. |
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