PayPal

PayPal has joined a funding round for startup Cambridge Blockchain, reportedly the first investment the online payments giant has made in distributed ledger technology.

As PayPal seeks to turn Venmo into a profit engine, the service has also taken steps to collect consumer debts, moves that are sure to spark controversy as some of the targeted users claim they have been fraud victims.

The Instagram social media platform is testing a checkout feature powered through PayPal to provide users the option to purchase goods without leaving the app.

PayPal is expanding its Instant Transfer service beyond debit cards, establishing a service for instant money movement from PayPal accounts to bank accounts.

While a career in payments can allow a person to touch on many different aspects of payments services, PayPal's Prashanthi Ravanavarapu can say her focus has remained quite clear.

In the startup sector, female founders consistently receive far less venture capital than male founders, but a program by Quesnay is looking to change that.

Barclays plc has spent years experimenting with creative ways to promote mobile payments, and it's not showing signs of stopping.

Dan Schulman predicts digital payments market may reach $100 trillion; the bank exiting Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

The European Commission says eight unnamed banks operated as a cartel in the €7 trillion eurozone government bond market; authorities detected a 150-foot tunnel leading to a JPMorgan Chase branch in Florida.

Venmo is not a moneymaker for PayPal yet, but that's not stopping the online and mobile payments giant from dreaming big about where its P2P service is headed.