PayPal will begin letting its disbursement partners use PayPal USD to settle cross-border money transfers. The new service will be offered through PayPal’s Xoom cross-border payments business, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 19) press release. Philippines-based financial services firm Cebuana Lhuillier and Africa’s Yellow Card...
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...
The next iteration of the internet, Web3, has been around for a while now. Meta’s Reality Labs division — the arm of the tech giant that focuses on metaverse, mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives — is...
With every innovation, the world gets a little bit smaller and interconnected. And with the news Monday (April 8) that Kyriba and Onyx, a J.P. Morgan business unit, are collaborating to better streamline cross-border payments, global expansion and payments innovation are top of mind for businesses of all shapes, sizes and...
July 15, 2019
Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service, is launching in the U.K. and 31 countries, allowing millions of users to remit in bytes and bits. Julian King, Xoom general manager, tells PYMNTS that PayPal’s scale and expanded send-side presence can let people transact across digital and cash payouts, satisfying each corridor’s remittance nuance.
December 11, 2018
When PayPal acquired global money transfer firm Xoom in 2015, company President and CEO John Kunze noted that becoming part of the larger PayPal organization marked the start of a new chapter in...
November 22, 2017
Two years after being acquired by PayPal, digital money transfer service Xoom has a story that it wants the world to know. Part of that story is around the typical stats that...
November 21, 2024
PayPal experienced a global outage that affected multiple products for about two hours Thursday (Nov. 21). The incident lasted from 10:53 UTC to 12:59 UTC Thursday, the company said on its status page. The outage affected account withdrawals, express checkout, cryptocurrency, the receive money function of Xoom and several functions of Venmo, according to the […]
November 19, 2024
PayPal will begin letting its disbursement partners use PayPal USD to settle cross-border money transfers. The new service will be offered through PayPal’s Xoom cross-border payments business, according to a...
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...
May 17, 2023
PayPal is reportedly mulling a sale for its cross-border payment unit Xoom. The digital payments company has been working “on the sales process in recent months,” and has hired Goldman Sachs for assistance, The...
