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PayPal begins piloting NFC, registers 40% growth in mobile payments

Thursday 30 April 2015 10:19 CET | News

With PayPal’s mobile payments transactions volume increasing 40% year-over-year, the business is testing NFC payments prior to its imminent split from eBay, mobilecommercedaily.com reports.

According to the source, following PayPal’s acquisition of commerce platform Paydiant in March 2015, PayPal is planning to allow bank partners and merchants to integrate more mobile wallet functions into their own applications as part of its technology agnostic approach. Ultimately, PayPal aims to leverage a number of mobile commerce opportunities in addition to NFC payments, such as QR codes, HCE and Bluetooth.

EBay is now experiencing mobile payment transactions accounting for nearly 30% of overall transactions, with an approximate yearly jump of 40%.

A recent report has revealed that Apple Pay has gained momentum in the mobile payments space, primarily at the expense of PayPal.


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Keywords: PayPal, NFC, mobile payments, eBay, payments , transactions , QR, HCE, Bluetooth, Paydiant
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