Tag: PayPal

PayPal and Aon team up for small business insurance

Insurance company Aon has partnered with PayPal to launch an initiative to help millions of PayPal’s small business customers in the US access insurance.

WealthTech services dominate app stores in Argentina in 2021

Argentina has a good FinTech adoption rate of 67%, due to a high underbanked population (49% before Covid-19) and a major shift towards...

WealthTech apps drives Mexico’s FinTech market toward financial freedom

Mercado Pago, the online payment platform for MercadoLibre, was the most downloaded application in Mexico in 2021 collecting an estimated 5.9m downloads. It...

Top FinTech mergers & acquisitions in 2021

During a time of greater market consolidation, FinTech Global takes a look back at some of 2021’s most notable mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Why PayPal may be next to enter the stablecoin market

PayPal has confirmed it is looking into developing PayPal Coin, a dollar-backed stablecoin as it looks to expand its footprint in the cryptocurrency space.

PayPal to deposit $135m to tackle economic inequality in underserved communities

PayPal will deposit $135m into financial institutions and management funds to help underserved communities of colour fight economic inequality.

PayPal teams with Arkose to tackle fraud on its Honey platform

PayPal has entered a collaboration with online fraud and abuse prevention company Arkose Labs to tackle fraud and security threats on its Honey shopping platform.

PayPal, Google Cloud expand partnership to bolster transactional data scale

Payments juggernaut PayPal has strengthened its partnership with Google Cloud to help it process transactional data at a larger scale.

Stripe and Max Levchin back Balance’s $5.5m seed raise

B2B payments FinTech Balance has secured $5.5m in seed capital from Stripe, Tal Morgenstern of Lightspeed, and Max Levchin through his SciFi VC.

Elon Musk’s Tesla has bought $1.5bn in bitcoin, sending the cryptocurrency...

PayPal and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed that his electric car company Tesla has bought $1.5bn worth of bitcoin, causing the value of the cryptocurrency to reach record heights.

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