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Chime Financial Inc. raised $750 million in its latest funding round, in a move that values the financial-technology startup at about $25 billion and sets it up for an initial public offering as early as next year. New…

With a deal to acquire Afterpay , Square won’t have to start calling itself Rectangle. Given Square’s ambitions across banking and payments, one could have argued for any number of directions in a deal. It chose to do…

SYDNEY— Square Inc. has agreed to acquire Afterpay Ltd. in an all-stock deal worth around $29 billion, illustrating how financial technology companies are seeking scale to challenge banks for a bigger slice of the payments…