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December 8, 2019 @ 10:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform giant PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) recently announced it surpasses $100 million during GivingTuesday 2019. According to PayPal, GivingTuesday is a global giving movement empowering people and organizations to transform their communities and create the world they want to live in. “In a world that… Read More

November 23, 2019 @ 12:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) revealed on November 20 that it has decided to  acquire Honey Science Corporation, a fast-growing tech platform for shopping and rewards, for around $4 billion. Honey, along with PayPal’s two-sided network, will focus on improving the shopping experience for PayPal’s customers,… Read More

October 23, 2019 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global Payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) beat on earnings today and shares in the company responded after hours jumping by over 8%. Revenue for Q3 increased by 19% to $4.38 billion as users increased by 7% during the quarter adding 9.8 million users. In total, PayPal… Read More

October 4, 2019 @ 9:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform giant PayPal announced earlier this week it has received approval from The People’s Bank of China to acquire 70% equity interest in Guofubao Information Technology Co. (GoPay), Ltd., a holder of a payment business license in China. This will allow PayPal to provide… Read More

September 24, 2019 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AUSTRAC, Australia’s financial intelligence agency, ordered an audit on September 24 of international money transfers made by online payment service provider PayPal according to a release. Australia’s authorities suspect that the transactions facilitated by PayPal might be associated with serious crimes such as child exploitation. … Read More

September 2, 2019 @ 8:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Worldline (Euronext: WLN), a European payment and transaction services provider, announced on Monday that it and payments platform giant PayPal have extended their contract in order to facilitate mobile payments in Latin America.  Under the terms of the agreement, which was extended for an additional… Read More

July 16, 2019 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PayPal announced on Tuesday the launch of its international money service Xoom in 32 markets across Europe. According to PayPal, consumers in these markets can now use Xoom to quickly send money, pay bills or phones to more than 130 markets internationally. “Xoom’s expansion to… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 7:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital challenger bank Monese announced on Thursday it has formed a new collaboration with payments platform giant PayPal. Monese reported that customers in the UK will be able to do the following: Link Monese and PayPal accounts, to manage PayPal balance and transactions in the… Read More

June 12, 2019 @ 7:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the acquisition by PayPal of competitor iZettle. In April, the CMA provisionally found the deal should be cleared. After an initial investigation (Phase 1), CMA raised concerns regarding competition reduction if the acquisition went through. The… Read More

June 3, 2019 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced on Monday the launch of its new digital commerce platform. The PayPal Commerce Platform is notably designed to meet the specific needs of marketplaces, e-commerce solution providers, crowdfunding platforms, and more by bringing together the most comprehensive set of technologies, tools,… Read More

May 30, 2019 @ 7:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced on Thursday it has provided more than $10 billion in funding through more than 650,000 loans to more than 225,000 small businesses around the world since providing access to its first loan more than five years ago. PayPal reported that its… Read More

March 26, 2019 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payment processing giant PayPal announced last week that is forming a new partnership with Instagram to help with buyer and seller transaction through Instagram’s new check out experience for shopping. According to PayPal, Checkout on Instagram will be available within posts and stories with shopping… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 7:19 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a statement on the PayPal acquisition of iZettle – an event that was announced in early 2018 and closed in September. PayPal purchased Sweden based iZettle for $2.2 billion as the company seeks to gain access… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 2:35 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

While some fintechers have announced that brick and mortar banks are dead, others are emulating key features of traditional banks. Fintech behemoth PayPal is reportedly rolling out its new innovations that harken back to mainstream brick and mortar banks. According to wsj.com, PayPal has been… Read More

March 24, 2018 @ 2:40 pm By Xu Gao  |  

China is Setting Up a National Online Contract Filing Platform On March 21st, the National Committee of experts on Internet Financial Security Technology (hereinafter referred to as the “Special Committee”) announced that it has jointly set up the national online contract filing platform with SIC… Read More

December 20, 2017 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Raisin, a unique financial marketplace that empowers savers to access the best interest rates across Europe, has received a strategic investment from global payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL). This is an interesting development for Berlin based Raisin and a further validation of their disruptive service. Raisin… Read More

October 17, 2017 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

PayPal has partnered with Kiva to help provide loans to entrepreneurs. This is the second time PayPal and Kiva have empowered PayPal users to provide loans while receiving a Kiva credit. Last year the campaign say more than 10,000 PayPal customers and employees make loans… Read More

August 11, 2017 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

PayPal has acquired Swift Financial (not to be confused with Swift the global banking messaging platform). The purchase will buttress PayPal Working Capital, a lending segment of PayPal that provides SMEs access to capital. Headquartered in Delaware, Swift Financial was established in 2006 to provide… Read More

August 3, 2017 @ 1:50 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Put your money where you mouth is. Luxembourg-headquartered Skype developed and launched Send Money, a fintech feature that allows users to transfer funds using PayPal via the latest Skype mobile app while users are “in the middle of a conversation.” Now you can pay up… Read More

April 6, 2017 @ 4:54 am By Erin Hobey  |  

PayPal (PYPL) and Visa (NYSE:V) have extended their U.S. partnership to the Asian Pacific market, a move that will see them work collaboratively to accelerate the adoption of secure, reliable and convenient digital and mobile payments for consumers and merchants in markets throughout the region. This… Read More