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News/crypto

Visa and PayPal back $300m Blockchain Capital fund

Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.

22 June 2021

News/crypto

PayPal doubles down on crypto-compliance platform TRM Labs

Cryptocurrency compliance and risk management platform TRM Labs has closed a $14 Million Series A funding round.

18 June 2021

Company announcement/inclusion

PayPal deposits $135 million in financial institutions serving black and underserved communities

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it will deposit $135 million of its capital into mission-driven financial institutions and management funds that help underserved communities of color to fight barriers to economic equity, including Hope Credit Union,  OneUnited Bank, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, CNote's Wisdom Fund and various smaller institutions through a CNote Promise Account.

07 June 2021

Company announcement/security

PayPal turns to Arkose Labs for online fraud and abuse prevention on Honey platform

Arkose Labs, provider of online fraud and abuse prevention technology, today announced a collaboration with PayPal to prevent security threats and fight fraud on its Honey shopping and rewards platform.

26 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

PayPal acquires Happy Returns

We started Happy Returns nearly six years ago with the mission of making returns beautiful for shoppers, retailers, and the planet.

14 May 2021

News/cloud

PayPal expands Google Cloud relationship

PayPal is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, which will provide the payments giant with both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to help it process transactional data at massive scale.

13 May 2021

News/inclusion

Big Issue sellers to accept PayPal QR Code payments

Sellers of the Big Issue, a magazine sold by the homeless across the UK, are now able to accept PayPal QR Code payments, following an accelerated roll out of iZettle card readers to over a third of its vendor network.

10 May 2021

News/payments

Twitter Tip Jar users cite PayPal privacy concerns hours after rollout

Hours after Twitter announced the new money transfer feature Tip Jar, early testers took to the social media platform to air their concerns over addresses being included in PayPal receipts.

07 May 2021

News/crypto

Coinbase lets users buy crypto with PayPal

Coinbase customers in the US can now use their PayPal accounts to buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

30 April 2021

Company announcement/payments

Fiserv bring PayPal and Venmo QR code payments to POS

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, is enabling businesses of all sizes across a range of industries to support in-demand digital payment options and expand their touch-free payment capabilities via a new relationship with PayPal.

27 April 2021

News/crypto

EToro launches new bitcoin portfolio

Multi-asset investment platform eToro has today announced the launch of a new thematic portfolio – BitcoinWorldWide. Based on the companies in the value chain behind bitcoin, the portfolio is intended to further catalyse adoption of the booming cryptocurrency.

26 April 2021

News/crypto

PayPal lets users pay in crypto

PayPal customers in the US can now pay at millions of online merchants around the world with bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum or bitcoin cash.

30 March 2021