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A Canadian software provider is the first of many middleware companies that PayPal says is key to bringing its online payment system to the physical point of sale.
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The last thing banks need is a new competitor in the mix for mobile payments, but that's exactly what they've got with PayPal testing software at Home Depot.
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PayPal's new access card gives the consumer an entrée to an array of linked accounts at the point of sale. "Another step in PayPal's march to disintermediate" traditional card companies, says one analyst.
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PayPal Inc., which has been testing a point of sale payment system
The card will be made available online. PayPal, a unit of eBay Inc., has been testing a point of sale payment system that
PayPal, of San Jose, Calif., said this month that it is testing this system at five Home Depot stores. This week, it will expand the trial to 51 Home Depot stores: one in Atlanta, six in Omaha and 44 in the San Francisco bay area.
PayPal expects to have its payment system in all Home Depot stores by March.
"It needs to reach scale very quickly. This won't catch on until that happens — until it's ubiquitous," Anuj Nayar, a PayPal spokesman, told American Banker Wednesday.
The Home Depot test uses hardware from the French terminal maker Ingenico SA. PayPal has also begun
The new card will not function like a normal debit card. It will not have the user's name or account number printed on it. Instead, it will have encrypted data written to the magnetic stripe, used to provide access to funds via a link to PayPal. The card will have a rewards feature added by yearend, Nayar says.
