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Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPT)
PayPal is a leading technology platform company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. We put our customers at the center of everything we do. We strive to increase our relevance for consumers, merchants, friends and family to access and move their money anywhere in the world, anytime, on any platform and through any device.
PayPal Reopens Sale Talks With Stripe After Rejecting First Offer
August 14, 2026
PayPal Holdings is in talks with a group that includes Stripe and Advent International, negotiating to sell itself at a price potentially higher than the one the companies offered in ...Read moreBlock and PayPal Find More Revenue in Merchant Loans
August 14, 2026
A merchant that once represented a stream of transaction fees can now represent a lending relationship, and second-quarter earnings results show payments platforms putting more money behind that proposition. Block and ...Read moreSynchrony and PayPal Bring Special Financing to Entire Mastercard Network
August 10, 2026
Synchrony and PayPal now offer PayPal Credit Card cardholders special financing everywhere Mastercard is accepted. This special financing is now available both in online checkout and in stores across the Mastercard ...Read morePayPal Shifts Its Comeback From Checkout to the Wallet
July 28, 2026PayPal’s turnaround hinges on a digital rebuild that includes stabilizing the checkout button consumers know today while preparing for a commerce environment in which artificial intelligence agents, digital identity and ...Read moreRetail Stores Are Becoming Financial Destinations
July 23, 2026
Watch more: How Stores Became the New Front Door for Everyday Money Movement Retailers measured success by the products that left the store — a tally that’s as old as commerce. ...Read more74% of BNPL Users Choose More Than One Provider
July 20, 2026
Buy now, pay later users are no longer choosing one provider and staying loyal. They are building a payment toolkit, selecting different installment options for different purchases. That shift defines “BNPL’s Multi-Provider ...Read morePayPal Board Calls $53 Billion Stripe-Advent Bid Inadequate
July 17, 2026
PayPal’s board believes the $53 billion takeover offer from Stripe and Advent International offered on July 15 undervalues the company. According to a report from Reuters, the development could potentially ...Read moreStripe Doesn’t Just Want PayPal, It’s Targeting Shopper Habit Formation
July 16, 2026
If Stripe’s reported pursuit of PayPal signals anything, it is that the next competitive frontier in payments may not be creating new consumer experiences at all. It may be replacing ...Read moreStripe’s Next Growth Engine Could Be PayPal’s Wallet
July 15, 2026
Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by selling payments infrastructure to merchants. PayPal built its business by persuading consumers to ...Read moreStripe and Advent Make $53 Billion Play for PayPal
July 15, 2026
PayPal shares jumped about 16% in premarket trading Wednesday after reports that Stripe and Advent International submitted a joint $60.50-a-share offer, valuing the company at more than $53 billion. The proposal, ...Read more
Insurers Find a Loyalty Test in Every Premium Payment
July 7, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With One Inc’s Colin Zalewski For millions of drivers, paying an auto insurance bill is one of the most common financial transactions they make, yet it ...Read moreMillennials’ Payments Playbook: Cards at the Core, Digital Options at the Ready
June 19, 2026
Millennials are moving through their prime earning, spending and household-forming years with unusual economic weight. More than 74 million strong, millennials already account for nearly 3 in 10 consumer-spending dollars in ...Read moreX Money Tests Whether Social Commerce Can Hold Consumer Deposits
April 17, 2026
Social platforms have long influenced what consumers browse and buy, but the next step is to determine whether they can also hold the money that enables those decisions. That question comes ...Read moreLatin America’s Informal Economy Becomes FinTech’s Biggest Opening
April 14, 2026
Latin America’s digital economy is advancing at a steady pace, yet much of the region’s commercial activity still operates beyond formal financial channels, leaving payments firms to contend with a ...Read morePayPal Embeds Payment Links Into Canva Designs
April 9, 2026
PayPal now enables users of the global visual communication platform Canva to accept payments directly from their digital or printed designs. This capability is provided by the integration of PayPal Payment Links into Canva, ...Read moreDigital Money Has a New Payment Standard and It’s Not Built for Humans
April 3, 2026
Digital payments have traditionally been a story of interfaces. Whether tapping a connected device or sending money through a platform’s API, the experience has been designed around the human intentions ...Read moreMastercard’s BVNK Deal Highlights the 4 Barriers to Stablecoin Adoption
March 18, 2026
Crypto’s goal of replacing fiat has never been able to overcome certain roadblocks. Many of them are operational, not ideological. Stablecoin adoption, for example, has been limited as a standalone system ...Read moreStripe and PayPal Combination Would Reorder the Payments Landscape
February 24, 2026
Tuesday (Feb. 24) marked a potentially seismic day in the payments industry. Rumors of Stripe’s interest in PayPal emerged after hours on Tuesday, initially reported by the likes of Bloomberg, with ...Read moreAnalysts Say PayPal Stock Slump Makes It Takeover Target
February 23, 2026PayPal Holdings has met with banks at a time when it is seeing unsolicited interest from would-be buyers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Feb. 23), citing unnamed sources. The company is drawing takeover ...Read moreOKX and Mastercard Enable Stablecoin Payments for European Cardholders
January 28, 2026
OKX has launched a crypto card in the European Economic Area (EEA) that enables direct stablecoins payments anywhere in the world Mastercard is accepted. The OKX Card also has zero fees transaction fees or foreign ...Read more
More Than 75% of Banks Not Ready for ISO 20022 Mandates. The Question Is: Why?
December 13, 2024
The benefits of standardized data formats and exchanges in financial services are myriad. Banks are moving toward the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard, tied to Swift, which noted that the open ...Read moreSling Money Raises $15 Million for Money Transfer App
August 15, 2024
Stablecoin-centric money transfer app Sling Money has raised $15 million in new funds. Sling’s app combines stablecoin technology “with a user-friendly interface” and integration with fiat payment systems for easier money movement, according ...Read moreWise Resumes Signing Customers in India to Tap $32 Billion Remittance Market
August 12, 2024
Money transfer firm Wise is reportedly hoping to tap India’s $32 billion remittance market. To that end, Wise plans to begin signing up new customers in the world’s most populous nation after pausing that side ...Read morePomelo and Thunes Partner on International Money Transfer Solution
May 9, 2024
Pomelo and Thunes have partnered on an international money transfer solution from the United States to the Philippines. This credit-based digital wallet solution provides a remittance method that reduces costs and ...Read morePomelo Officially Launches Product Combining Credit and International Money Transfer
April 22, 2024
Pomelo has announced its official launch after several months of private beta. The company is launching with $70 million in seed financing that includes $20 million in venture capital and $50 million ...Read moreWestern Union Marks 100 Concept Stores in Europe
December 6, 2023
Western Union says it has expanded its network of concept stores in Europe. The cross-border money transfer provider announced Wednesday (Dec. 6) that it now has 100 concept stores and “company-owned hubs” ...Read moreFTC: Walmart ‘Turned Blind Eye’ to Telemarketing Rule Violations
July 2, 2023
Federal regulators have offered new details in a legal action involving Walmart’s money-transfer operations. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday (June 30) that it had amended its year-old complaint against the retail giant, which involves the company’s ...Read moreMoney Transfer Company Wise Reports 37% YOY Increase in Volumes
June 27, 2023
Money transfer company Wise increased its customer base by 34% and its volumes by 37% over the last year. During the 12 months ended March 31, the company’s customer base grew ...Read moreMoney Transfer Firm Instant Cash Receives License From UAE Central Bank
May 25, 2023
Instant Cash has received a license from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE). With this Retail Payment Services and Card Scheme Regulation (RPSCS) Category 2 License, Instant Cash ...Read moreRising P2P Payments Driving Demand for More Seamless Money Movement Options
April 11, 2023
Call it peer-to-peer or person-to-person, but P2P is taking on new significance in a troubled economy where splitting the restaurant bill or lending your friend a few dollars is a ...Read more
Block and PayPal Find More Revenue in Merchant Loans
August 14, 2026A merchant that once represented a stream of transaction fees can now represent a lending relationship, and second-quarter earnings results show payments platforms putting more money behind that proposition. Block and ...Read moreThe Performance Gap: Why Every Transaction Is a Growth Opportunity
August 3, 2026
The payments industry has mastered how to move money but not how to maximize its value. Despite rapid digital innovation, revenue leakage continues to widen the gap between customer intent ...Read morePayPal Shifts Its Comeback From Checkout to the Wallet
July 28, 2026PayPal’s turnaround hinges on a digital rebuild that includes stabilizing the checkout button consumers know today while preparing for a commerce environment in which artificial intelligence agents, digital identity and ...Read moreStripe Doesn’t Just Want PayPal, It’s Targeting Shopper Habit Formation
July 16, 2026If Stripe’s reported pursuit of PayPal signals anything, it is that the next competitive frontier in payments may not be creating new consumer experiences at all. It may be replacing ...Read moreStripe’s Next Growth Engine Could Be PayPal’s Wallet
July 15, 2026Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by selling payments infrastructure to merchants. PayPal built its business by persuading consumers to ...Read moreStripe and Advent Make $53 Billion Play for PayPal
July 15, 2026PayPal shares jumped about 16% in premarket trading Wednesday after reports that Stripe and Advent International submitted a joint $60.50-a-share offer, valuing the company at more than $53 billion. The proposal, ...Read moreEarnings Reveal New Race to Control the Merchant Stack
May 17, 2026
For years, merchant services centered on moving money from cardholder to business. The current earnings season gives proof that business has become far broader, encompassing everything from payments to back-office ...Read morePayPal and Rainforest Team to Move Businesses Away From Checks
February 25, 2026
Paypal has formed a partnership with Rainforest, an embedded payment provider focused on software platforms. The collaboration will see the companies launch an embedded payment integration to help software platforms move more processing volume away ...Read morePayPal Teams With Sabre and Mindtrip on Agentic AI Travel
February 12, 2026
PayPal is launching an artificial intelligence-focused partnership with tech firms Sabre and Mindtrip, according to a Thursday (Feb. 12) press release. The collaboration combines PayPal’s agentic commerce capabilities, Sabre’s enterprise-grade travel ...Read morePayPal Acquires Cymbio to Bolster Agentic Commerce Capabilities
January 22, 2026
PayPal is set to acquire marketplace and dropship automation platform Cymbio. As the company noted in a news release Thursday (Jan. 22), PayPal has in the past worked with Cymbio as part of its agentic ...Read more
Social Media Sales Growth Increases for 46% of SMBs
August 12, 2026
For small businesses in the United States, the clearest growth opportunities increasingly sit beyond the storefront. “Why Main Street’s Digital Survivors Are Pulling Ahead: Four Years of Small Business Data” drew ...Read moreSynchrony and PayPal Bring Special Financing to Entire Mastercard Network
August 10, 2026Synchrony and PayPal now offer PayPal Credit Card cardholders special financing everywhere Mastercard is accepted. This special financing is now available both in online checkout and in stores across the Mastercard ...Read moreGoogle Play Users Can Now Pay With Venmo
August 10, 2026
Google has added Venmo as a payment option on Google Play, enabling users to bring the digital wallet to the apps, games and digital content on the Google Play, Google said in a Monday (Aug. 10) blog post. Effective ...Read moreHomer’s Economy Ran on Oxen, Wine and Trust
August 8, 2026
Odysseus had no Visa, no Venmo and no helpful fraud alert from Ithaca National Bank warning that a palace full of unfamiliar men was charging dinner to his household. Yet his ...Read moreVisa Direct Modernizes Government Payouts Stuck in Check Era
July 29, 2026
Watch more: Visa Direct With Visa’s Curtis Webb The card infrastructure to pay constituents is already in place. The banks are ready. Your debit card is ready. Consider the irony. Someone can ...Read morePayPal Shifts Its Comeback From Checkout to the Wallet
July 28, 2026PayPal’s turnaround hinges on a digital rebuild that includes stabilizing the checkout button consumers know today while preparing for a commerce environment in which artificial intelligence agents, digital identity and ...Read morePayPal Board Calls $53 Billion Stripe-Advent Bid Inadequate
July 17, 2026PayPal’s board believes the $53 billion takeover offer from Stripe and Advent International offered on July 15 undervalues the company. According to a report from Reuters, the development could potentially ...Read moreStripe Doesn’t Just Want PayPal, It’s Targeting Shopper Habit Formation
July 16, 2026If Stripe’s reported pursuit of PayPal signals anything, it is that the next competitive frontier in payments may not be creating new consumer experiences at all. It may be replacing ...Read moreStripe’s Next Growth Engine Could Be PayPal’s Wallet
July 15, 2026Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by selling payments infrastructure to merchants. PayPal built its business by persuading consumers to ...Read moreStripe and Advent Make $53 Billion Play for PayPal
July 15, 2026PayPal shares jumped about 16% in premarket trading Wednesday after reports that Stripe and Advent International submitted a joint $60.50-a-share offer, valuing the company at more than $53 billion. The proposal, ...Read more