The news: Block’s Square will be Live Nation Canada’s exclusive provider of payments.

• Square will roll out at Rogers Stadium when it opens June 29.
• Live Nation will use a range of Square solutions—including Square Online, which will let Budweiser Stage attendees order from their seats.
• Major upcoming festivals that will feature Square payments include Veld Music Festival, Electric Island, and Badlands.

Venue potential: The partnership could let Square use one of Canada’s largest concert and festival venue operators as a testing ground for its newest tech with a captive audience. 

After partnering with Stripe, atVenu was one of the first to trial Stripe’s latest handheld and mobile card readers to process merchandise sales—which they saw triple in volume since 2019.