Will Visa’s recent PayPal partnership stoke its earnings?

Nancy Marshall-Genzer Oct 24, 2016
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Will Visa’s recent PayPal partnership stoke its earnings?

Nancy Marshall-Genzer Oct 24, 2016
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Visa reports earnings Monday, and we’ll see results for the first full quarter of its partnership with PayPal. Previously, PayPal actively steered its users away from using Visa to avoid the fees Visa charged on every purchase. Now Visa is getting those fees, and something more strategically important — an entry to the booming, and millennial-friendly, mobile payment space.

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