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PayPal has partnered with Selfbook as its commerce partner to revolutionize hotel payments and bookings. The collaboration integrates PayPal, Venmo, and Buy Now, Pay Later options into Selfbook's hotel booking platform, while featuring Selfbook's hotel network on PayPal's app. The partnership leverages AI technology through Perplexity integration, enabling conversational booking experiences. PayPal's integration typically increases online travel payment conversion by 84%. Hotels will benefit from direct distribution through PayPal Offers, accessing millions of users while avoiding commission fees. Selfbook will also transition its credit card processing to PayPal's Enterprise Payments, creating a streamlined, AI-powered checkout process with exclusive rates for travelers.

Venmo announces major expansion of its commerce capabilities, introducing enhanced rewards and features for its Venmo Debit Mastercard. The platform reports strong Q1 2025 performance with 20% YoY revenue growth, 50% increase in Pay with Venmo usage, and 30% growth in monthly active accounts. The Venmo Debit Card sees 40% growth in monthly active cardholders. New features include up to 15% cash back rewards at major retailers like Sephora, Walmart, and Lyft, tap-to-pay functionality, automatic balance transfers, and international payment capabilities with no fees. The company launches 'Venmo Everything' campaign featuring Aimee Lou Wood and Patrick Schwarzenegger to promote these new commerce solutions. Venmo expands its checkout presence across major platforms including TikTok Shop, Uber, and Instacart, transforming from a peer-to-peer payment app into a comprehensive commerce platform serving over 64 million monthly active U.S. accounts.

PayPal (PYPL) has announced a significant expansion of its PayPal Credit service by introducing a new physical Mastercard, issued by Synchrony. The card enables customers to use PayPal Credit both online and in-store wherever Mastercard is accepted. A notable feature includes a limited-time promotional offer for travel purchases, allowing customers to spread payments over six months with no minimum spend requirement. The card maintains the existing benefit of six-month promotional financing on PayPal purchases over $149. This expansion addresses customer demand for flexible payment options in physical retail locations and complements PayPal's existing financial products, including the PayPal Cashback Mastercard and Buy Now Pay Later services. The physical card will be rolled out to US customers in the coming weeks, with eligible existing PayPal Credit customers receiving upgrade notifications.

PayPal (PYPL) has partnered with Perplexity to power agentic commerce across the Perplexity Pro platform. Starting summer 2025 in the U.S., users can make instant purchases through PayPal or Venmo while interacting with Perplexity's AI for product searches, travel bookings, or ticket purchases. The integration leverages PayPal's secure tokenized wallet and passkey checkout flows, eliminating the need for passwords.

The partnership will give Perplexity access to PayPal's network of 430+ million active accounts across approximately 200 markets. Key features include agentic commerce integration, global reach, and secure transactions utilizing PayPal's fraud detection and security protocols. The collaboration aims to transform conversational AI interactions into seamless commercial transactions.

PayPal is spearheading the agentic commerce revolution by launching innovative AI-powered developer tools at PayPal Dev Days. The company introduced the industry's first remote MCP server and Agent Toolkit, partnering with tech giants like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

Key developments include:

• AI Shopping Companion with Google Cloud using Gemini-powered chat experiences
• AWS integration for real-time product digitization using Amazon Nova foundation models
• Personalized shopping experiences through Microsoft's Azure AI

The platform enables AI agents to handle commerce operations including payments, shipping tracking, and invoice management. PayPal's global network provides merchant verification and consumer protection through one-time password identity checks. The company's open platform integrates catalog management, payments, order processing, shipping, and data insights, allowing developers to create AI-powered shopping experiences through natural language prompts.

PayPal reported strong first quarter 2025 results with $7.8 billion in revenue (up 1% year-over-year) and significant profit growth. GAAP EPS increased 56% to $1.29, while non-GAAP EPS rose 23% to $1.33. The company's operating margins expanded substantially, with GAAP operating margin at 19.6% (up 447 basis points) and non-GAAP operating margin at 20.7% (up 257 basis points).

Total Payment Volume grew 3% to $417.2 billion, and active accounts increased 2% to 436 million. Despite a 7% decrease in total payment transactions to 6.0 billion, transactions excluding unbranded PSP increased by 6%. The company generated $1.0 billion in free cash flow and repurchased approximately 19 million shares for $1.5 billion.

CEO Alex Chriss stated: "PayPal had a great start to the year and our strategy is working." Despite the strong performance, PayPal maintained its full-year 2025 guidance due to "uncertainty in the global macro environment," projecting GAAP EPS between $4.80 and $4.95 and non-GAAP EPS between $4.95 and $5.10.

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) have expanded their partnership to enhance the adoption and utility of PayPal's stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD). The collaboration introduces several key features:

• Fee-free PYUSD purchases and 1:1 USD redemption on Coinbase platforms
• Joint exploration of payment innovations for global money movement and commerce
• Development of DeFi and onchain platform use cases

This expansion builds upon their 2021 partnership, which enabled Coinbase users to fund purchases and withdraw fiat currency through PayPal. The collaboration aims to leverage PayPal's network of over 430 million consumer and merchant accounts to increase global stablecoin adoption.

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has announced a new rewards program for its stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD), offering users a 3.7% annual reward rate for holding PYUSD in their PayPal or Venmo wallets. Set to launch in Summer 2025, the program allows users to:

• Earn daily rewards distributed monthly in PYUSD
• Use rewards for merchant payments, peer-to-peer transfers, and Xoom remittances
• Convert holdings 1:1 to fiat currency
• Trade for other cryptocurrencies
• Transfer to supported wallets on Ethereum and Solana blockchains

The program will be available to US users, excluding New York State at launch. While Venmo consumer accounts are eligible, Teen Accounts and Business Profile users cannot participate. PayPal maintains discretion to adjust the reward rate at any time.

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has launched a new advertising campaign featuring comedian Will Ferrell, following up on their 2024 collaboration. The new ad, set to debut during basketball playoffs, features Ferrell performing a remake of a Fleetwood Mac song while showcasing PayPal's various payment options.

The campaign highlights PayPal's flexible checkout options, including debit card, credit card, bank account, PayPal balance, and Buy Now Pay Later services. Recent product enhancements include biometric logins, faster page load times, and pre-qualified spending amounts for Pay in 4 purchases. The PayPal Debit Mastercard offers 5% cash back on up to $1,000 spent in selected categories monthly, including a new Rideshare and Public Transit category.

The marketing initiative extends beyond television to include out-of-home advertising, digital platforms, streaming, radio, podcasts, influencer partnerships, and social media campaigns.