PayPal Holdings, Inc. Due Diligence

Run due diligence on PayPal Holdings, Inc.: check incident history and compliance and get alerts when suppliers or ownership change.

United States · owned by Independent (United States) · www.paypal.com · 23 vendors

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is a leading global digital payments platform that enables individuals and businesses to send and receive money online securely. It offers a wide range of services including online payments, peer-to-peer transfers (via Venmo and PayPal), buy-now-pay-later (Pay Later), and merchant payment solutions. Headquartered in San Jose, California, PayPal operates in over 200 markets worldwide and serves hundreds of millions of active accounts.

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Disruption prediction

PayPal Holdings, Inc.: 1 critical incidents expected in the next three months, based on its recorded incident history.

Forecast estimates are rounded up to whole numbers.

No active incident reported (StatusGator, as of 2026-11-09 17:45 UTC)

12 of PayPal Holdings, Inc.'s 23 vendors have incident tracking.

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20 services in catalogue across 5 categories; runs on 23 sub-vendors.

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Last updated 2026-09-13 · revision 2

23 direct vendors, 216 subvendors

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Compliance

17 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

CFPB Regulations — Evidence found

Evidence: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-orders-paypal-to-pay-25-million-penalty-and-provide-15-million-in-redress-for-illegal-practices-harming-venmo-users/, https://investor.paypal-corp.com/sec-filings/annual-reports, https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/supervisory-guidance/, https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/buy-now-pay-later-market-trends-and-consumer-impacts/

BSA — Evidence found

Evidence: https://www.fincen.gov/msb-registrant-search, https://investor.paypal-corp.com/sec-filings/annual-reports, https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/aup-full, https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-assets-control-sanctions-programs-and-information

MiCA — No public evidence

Evidence: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1114, https://www.esma.europa.eu/esmas-activities/digital-finance-and-innovation/markets-crypto-assets-regulation-mica, https://investor.paypal-corp.com/sec-filings/annual-reports, https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2023-08-07-PayPal-Launches-U-S-Dollar-Stablecoin

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 8/10

PayPal demonstrates strong financial resilience underpinned by multi-billion-dollar annual free cash flow generation (approximately $4.2B in FY2023 and guided ~$6B in FY2024), a solid balance sheet with roughly $16-17B in cash and investments against $11-12B of long-term debt, and investment-grade credit ratings (S&P A-, Moody's A3 area). The company's two-sided network moat, with 35M+ merchants accepting PayPal, Venmo, and Braintree, provides durable competitive positioning and diversified revenue streams across branded checkout, unbranded processing, P2P payments, remittances, and value-added services. Revenue growth has decelerated from ~20% during the pandemic to high-single digits (7-8%), and operating margin has stabilized around 16-17% after expansion in 2023. Elevated interest rates have provided a meaningful tailwind through customer balance interest income (~$1.5B+ annually). The company continues to return significant capital to shareholders via buybacks (~$5B in 2023, ~$6B in 2024). Key vulnerabilities include take-rate compression from Braintree unbranded mix shift (from ~1.86% in 2022 to ~1.70% in 2024), intensifying competition at checkout from Apple Pay, Shop Pay, Stripe, Adyen, and BNPL players, and essentially flat active-account growth. The turnaround under new CEO Alex Chriss is still unproven, and the market cap has declined from a $360B peak in 2021 to $70-90B range in 2024, reflecting multiple compression despite continued fundamental growth.

Key strengths: Multi-billion-dollar annual free cash flow generation (~$4.2B FY2023, ~$6B FY2024 guided), Strong balance sheet: ~$16-17B cash/investments vs. ~$11-12B long-term debt, Investment-grade credit ratings (S&P A-, Moody's A3 area), Two-sided network moat with 35M+ merchants globally, Diversified revenue across branded checkout, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, Hyperwallet, Zettle, Interest income tailwind from customer balances (~$1.5B+ annually), Large capital returns via buybacks (~$5B in 2023, ~$6B in 2024), TPV growth from $1.36T (2022) to $1.68T (2024)

Risk factors: Take-rate compression from Braintree unbranded processing mix shift, Competitive pressure at checkout from Apple Pay, Shop Pay, Google Pay, Stripe, Adyen, Klarna, Affirm, Slowing/flat active-account growth (~426M-434M range), Regulatory exposure (CFPB, EU DMA/PSD3, UK FCA, state money-transmitter licensing), Consumer and merchant credit risk from BNPL and business loan portfolios, FX exposure with ~40%+ of revenue non-US, Turnaround execution risk under new CEO Alex Chriss, Pending litigation around Honey (2024) and anti-competitive-parity allegations

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