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Banks are often taken for granted in digital wallets, treated as a "dumb pipe" for funding another account. PayPal is working to provide a more welcoming atmosphere with deals recently announced with Citigroup, FIS and two other banks.

Mobile payment initiatives have largely failed because they focus on changing transactions instead of changing the way consumers and merchants engage with each other, according to Carta Worldwide, which touts new tokens as a way to reverse that.

If a consumer is willing to shop online through a mobile device while sitting on the toilet, retailers need to be in the bathroom with that shopper during the holiday season. At least, PayPal sees it that way.

PayPal has added support for Apple Inc.’s Siri voice-command feature for person-to-person payments, following Apple's decision to open Siri to third-party developers.

Payment security isn’t the highest priority for millions of consumers who increasingly use smartphones to buy games online, a new study suggests.

PayPal still has a big lead over banks’ digital payment offerings, despite the many advances banks have made in recent years, a new study suggests.

The race to dominate person-to-person transfers has been a curious one so far, because P-to-P typically isn’t a money-maker for banks or even for PayPal, whose Venmo unit is generating red-hot growth this year in the category.

At this week's Money2020 conference, payment execs like PayPal's Bill Ready say consumers will make purchases in a broad context of shopping, and if merchants aren’t poised to meet their audiences there, they will get left behind, Ready said.

PayPal Holdings Inc. said it will make more money in coming years than previously expected, easing concern that recent deals with credit card companies would suppress earnings.

Mobile technology is radically changing the way people hail taxis, book lodging, consume entertainment and find prospective dates, but the same magic isn’t happening with how people spend money.