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Guidance focuses on five key traits, including overseeing risk profiles; a former Congressional aide says agency must be accountable.

PayPal is following its investment in micro-investing app with a direct link, vastly expanding the app's addressable market.

Some of the most successful recent innovations in payments started with peer-to-peer services before evolving into other products, writes Amitaabh Malhotra, chief marketing officer at Omnyway.

BigCommerce has added PayPal Credit as a payment option for merchants using its e-commerce platform.

Mnuchin’s former business associate is likely to be sworn in next week; Mulvaney, as a congressman, called the CFPB a “joke” and co-sponsored a bill to kill it.

The deal for PayPal’s consumer loan portfolio will make Synchrony a bigger player in e-commerce. And the agreement helps the Silicon Valley payments giant achieve its goal of reducing its exposure to the credit cycle.

PayPal has suspended the operations of TIO Networks, a bill-payment company it purchased earlier this year, following the discovery of security vulnerabilities that require investigation.

Customer service is steadily expanding within Facebook separate from its payments operations, as part of “an ecosystem for buying.”

PayPal is strengthening its services for e-commerce marketplaces and crowdfunding money-raising projects through PayPal for Marketplaces, while also adding Pay with Google for its Braintree merchants accepting Android Pay.

Facebook Messenger now supports person-to-person payments and customer service for PayPal, expanding the funding choices for repaying friends and family and the channels available to PayPal users sending P-to-P payments.