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by roordan 3062 days ago
I think the idea is that eBay doesn't want to have users sign up with Paypal anymore. Instead only ever interact with eBay, with Adyen just being the pipes for eBay.
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The idea is that they want their god-given chunk of that sweet transaction margin, not hand some proportion of it over to PayPal.
Then they should have kept PayPal as a subsidiary.
Ha! Nothing like improving the bottom line.