With its transaction growth rates slowing and less-than-expected revenue guidance for the balance of the year, PayPal focused on its repositioning from a peer-to-peer pioneer to a two-sided payments technology platform in its Q3 earnings call Tuesday (Oct. 29). Notably absent from the call was any...
If the global consumer is showing signs of cutting spending, PayPal didn’t get that email. The digital payments and peer-to-peer platform on Tuesday (July 30) posted better than expected Q2 earnings and doubled down with increased revenue estimates for the rest of 2024. “We are...
Slowing growth. A churning of inactive accounts. A slew of puts and takes dominated PayPal’s earnings Wednesday (Feb. 7), and a number of flat metrics sent investors headed, at least initially, for the exits in after-hours trading. The stock was down 7% Wednesday evening. Revenue...
PayPal will eliminate about 2,500 positions, or about 9% of its workforce, this year. The company aims to “right-size” its workforce by cutting jobs and by not filling open roles, PayPal CEO Alex Chriss said Tuesday (Jan. 30) in a letter to staff. Affected staff will...
November 14, 2024
The payment and commerce platforms PayPal, Shopify and Block have long been developing ecosystems for merchants. For the small to mid-sized businesses, signing on to some services (such as payments processing) provides an onramp to accessing funding, via capital solutions that can help them meet unplanned expenses, or grow their businesses. As has been spotlighted […]
October 29, 2024
With its transaction growth rates slowing and less-than-expected revenue guidance for the balance of the year, PayPal focused on its repositioning from a peer-to-peer pioneer to a two-sided payments technology...
July 30, 2024
If the global consumer is showing signs of cutting spending, PayPal didn’t get that email. The digital payments and peer-to-peer platform on Tuesday (July 30) posted better than expected Q2...
February 07, 2024
Slowing growth. A churning of inactive accounts. A slew of puts and takes dominated PayPal’s earnings Wednesday (Feb. 7), and a number of flat metrics sent investors headed, at least...
January 30, 2024
PayPal will eliminate about 2,500 positions, or about 9% of its workforce, this year. The company aims to “right-size” its workforce by cutting jobs and by not filling open roles, PayPal CEO Alex Chriss said Tuesday (Jan. 30) in a letter to staff. Affected staff will be notified this week. “While I have been encouraged by […]
December 14, 2023
Former PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman will leave the company’s board of directors at the end of the year. Schulman, who has served on the board since 2015 and served as president and...
August 14, 2023
PayPal has named longtime Intuit executive Alex Chriss to serve as its new president and CEO. The payments company announced Chriss’ appointment in a Monday (Aug. 14) press release, following a months-long search for a...
