For Block and for PayPal, the headlines gleaned from earnings may be about bitcoin, about gross payment volumes and the continued shift to digital transactions. And, indeed, as spotlighted here in our own earnings coverage this past week, PayPal noted growth in transactions per account,...
Stablecoins, as their name implies, offer the benefits of cryptocurrency without the volatility. And with Visa having launched on April 25 the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard to showcase how fiat-backed stablecoins move via public blockchains globally, the stablecoin category is increasingly top of mind for CFOs...
PayPal’s transactions per active account grew by double digits in the latest quarter, and debit spending boosted results, while easier, faster checkout boosted conversions. Total payment volumes were up 14% to $403.9 billion in the quarter, the company said in its most recent earnings supplementals,...
For account-to-account (A2A) payment providers, PYMNTS Intelligence research finds, education continues to present a huge barrier to adoption. By the Numbers A2A payments, which bypass the middleman to move money quickly from one account to another, commonly enabled by providers such as PayPal, Venmo or...
May 09, 2024
Increasingly, small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) operating in the healthcare field are using real-time payment technology to improve cash flow efficiency. Thirty-eight percent of the healthcare SMBs PYMNTS Intelligence surveyed for “Small Business Real-Time Payments Barometer: Healthcare Edition” said real-time payments were their most-used payment method, with instant bank account-to-account payments (15%) and instant PayPal (13%) topping the list of preferred […]
April 30, 2024
PayPal’s transactions per active account grew by double digits in the latest quarter, and debit spending boosted results, while easier, faster checkout boosted conversions. Total payment volumes were up 14%...
April 03, 2024
The legal dust-up between PayPal and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over digital wallets has notched a win in PayPal’s favor. As reported this week, U.S. District Judge Richard...
February 21, 2024
Account-to-account (A2A) payments, also known as pay-by-bank, are gaining popularity among consumers. In the United States, 36% of consumers use this payment method, according to insights detailed in the PYMNTS...
April 10, 2024
Former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman has been named managing partner at Valor Capital. The firm, which says it launched the first U.S. and Latin American cross-border venture fund in 2011, announced Schulman’s appointment in a Monday (April 8) news release. “Dan needs no introduction for those who have been in the tech industry at any point over the past thirty years,” Valor […]
April 04, 2024
Cross-border money transfer service Xoom now lets users make transactions with PayPal’s USD stablecoin. Xoom, owned by PayPal, said in a Thursday (April 4) press release that the new funding option lets users in the...
April 04, 2024
India-based “hyperlocal marketing-to-commerce” firm SingleInterface raised $40 million in new funding. The funding round was led by Asia Partners, with participation by PayPal Ventures, according to a Thursday (April 4) press release. Founded by entrepreneurs Tarun Sobhani and Harish...
April 02, 2024
Visa said PayPal and Venmo are now offering its Visa+ peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system. “As we continue to expand the P2P use case in the U.S., Current and Western Union will join PayPal and Venmo in enabling cross-platform money movement,” the...
