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For account-to-account (A2A) payment providers, PYMNTS Intelligence research finds, education continues to present a huge barrier to adoption.By the NumbersA2A payments, which bypass the middleman to move money quickly from one account to another, commonly enabled by providers such as PayPal, Venmo or Cash App, are gaining ground. In fact, 36% of consumers use them, according to the December 2023 PYMNTS Intelligence study “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Consumer Familiarity Controls Account-to-Acco ...

PM Images A good GARP opportunity The stock prices of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) have gone nowhere in the recent 1~2 years. As shown in the chart below, the price of PYPL stock has been largely sideways in the past year. I cannot blame the market, as there are indeed uncertainties surrounding the future of PYPL's business (I will revisit this toward the end). Seeking Alpha While its prices stagnate (for now), PayPal's earnings have been improving over the years. As seen in the next chart belo ...

bizoo_n My Thesis I believe the recent shift in PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:PYPL) management has been a real game changer. Against the backdrop of continued product expansion, underestimated market expectations for future earnings, and favorable valuations, PYPL stock remains one of the most obvious large-cap"Buy" ideas right now. My Reasoning In January 2024, I initiated coverage of PYPL stock with a "Buy" rating, saying that the strategic change that management was set to announce on January 25, 2 ...

Fintech stocks have been Wall Street’s wallflowers for what seems like an eternity now. While flashier industries like AI, cloud computing, and renewable energy have been hogging the limelight, fintech stocks have been left out in the cold. But I believe their time in the sun is finally coming.Despite being overshadowed, many top fintech companies have been quietly strengthening their core businesses. They’ve been retaining robust growth trajectories, while boosting profitability and shoring up their financ ...

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 United States convert the stablecoins (PYUSD) in their linked PayPal Cryptocurrency Hub to U.S. dollars. They can then use it to fund transactions to recipients in approximately 160 countries with no transaction fees.“When we decided to bring PayPal USD to market, we had two objectives we wanted ...

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 Bahl, the company works with brands in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East to help them manage the digital presence of their brick-and-mortar stores, the release said.“With more than 400 million local businesses worldwide, ...

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 J. Leon ruled that the CFPB “had no rational justification” for placing digital wallets under the rule’s “short-form” fee disclosure requirements.Per the ruling, and as PYMNTS detailed, unlike other products, “digital wallets are not primarily used to access funds or to function as a substitute checking account,” Leon ...

Its price has gotten so low that it looks undervalued.Shares of PayPal Holdings (PYPL 0.09%) stock gained 11% in March, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. There wasn't any big news, but investors might be recognizing that PayPal stock looks like a great value since falling to its lowest price in five years.Has the leader in digital payments fallen behind?PayPal stock has been falling over the past few years after hitting a peak early in the pandemic. Growth is decelerating, profit ...

Interoperability in payments — paying anyone, anywhere, no matter the network — remains a Holy Grail in payments.And interoperability is a work in progress. But bit by bit and app by app, cross-border, cross-network and cross-wallet compatibility is being forged.This week, PayPal and Venmo began offering Visa’s peer-to-peer (P2P) payment system, Visa+. The announcement built on earlier news that Astra, Brightwell, Cross River Bank and Fiserv plan to implement Visa+ APIs for their digital wallet and merchant ...