{"id":27331,"date":"2021-08-02T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T08:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=27331"},"modified":"2021-08-02T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T08:28:36","slug":"afterpay-jack-dorseys-square-in-australias-biggest-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/08\/02\/afterpay-jack-dorseys-square-in-australias-biggest-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterpay: Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Square in Australia&#8217;s biggest buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey&#8217;s digital payments platform Square has agreed to take over the Australian &#8216;buy now, pay later&#8217; firm Afterpay.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The $29bn (A$39bn; \u00a321bn) deal is set to be Australia&#8217;s biggest-ever buyout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The offer is a more than 30% premium to Afterpay&#8217;s stock market closing price on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i85\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The agreement will create an instalments payment giant as the industry sees significant growth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey&rsquo;s digital payments platform Square has agreed to take over the Australian &lsquo;buy now, pay later&rsquo; firm Afterpay. The $29bn (A$39bn; &pound;21bn) deal is set to be Australia&rsquo;s biggest-ever buyout. The offer is a more than 30% premium to Afterpay&rsquo;s stock market closing price on Friday. The agreement will create an instalments payment giant as the industry sees significant growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27333,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27331\/revisions\/27333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}