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PayPal extends mobile wallet reach with Vodafone and America Movil

Tuesday 23 February 2016 00:32 CET | News

Paypal has announced partnerships for mobile wallets with Vodafone and America Movil in Europe and Latin America respectively, opening a line to millions of new customers.

Vodafones deal will integrate PayPal into Vodafone Wallet, allowing for PayPals European customers to do contactless payments at Visa terminals. Also, America Movils arrangement allows for creating digital wallets for 140 million Tel Cel and Claro customers in Mexico and Brazil.

PayPal has also revealed that its Xoom service is expanding into Africa, allowing US customers to send money to people in Kenya using a connection to Vodafones M-Pesa.


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