Is Square going global?

Comments by CEO suggest payments firm in ready to expand outside the US.

Square has a good claim to being the most hyped mobile start-up in the world right now. Its credit card dongle, which turns any smartphone or tablet into a payments processor, has around two million users.

It also offers the Pay By Square service which enables a user to ping a merchant ahead of arrival and say their name to complete the transaction.

The firm reckons its transactions value is now on target to hit $6 billion this year.

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