PayPal's parent eBay announced financial results for 2Q2012.

PayPal ended the quarter with 113.2 million active registered accounts, a 13% increase over the second quarter of 2011. PayPal revenue increased 26% year over year, driven primarily by increased penetration on eBay as well as continued merchant and consumer adoption and strong growth in Bill Me Later. PayPal's net total payment volume (TPV) grew 20% year over year to $34.5 billion.

eBay reported that the PayPal 'take rate' rose to 3.94% in 2Q2012, up 21 basis points from a year earlier. Management also indicated that it expected PayPal mobile to transact $10 billion in volume in 2012.

Bank of America has reported financial results for the second quarter 2012.

Noninterest income declined $510 million to $2.6 billion, primarily from the implementation of debit card interchange fee rules as a result of the Durbin Amendment and a gain on the sale of certain portfolios in the second quarter of 2011. Provision for credit losses, primarily within the Card Services business, increased $731 million from the year-ago quarter to $1.1 billion as portfolio trends began to stabilize. Net charge-offs declined to $1.7 billion in the second quarter of 2012 from $2.6 billion in the year-ago quarter.

The number of new U.S. credit card accounts opened in the second quarter of 2012 was up 7% from the year-ago quarter. During the second quarter of 2012, the number of BankAmericard Cash Rewards cards grew by 37% to 1.4 million.

MasterCard has announced availability of the MasterCard Business Network to provide SMBs with purchasing discounts, enhanced T&E capabilities, and streamlined expense management.

“Smaller businesses don’t think of themselves as small, they just haven’t finished growing yet,” said Ed Glassman, group executive, Global Commercial Products, MasterCard Worldwide. “Through one, integrated site, the MasterCard Business Network is designed to help them grow by delivering some of the critical infrastructure capabilities that can help them save time and money, whether they are purchasing supplies, booking travel, entertaining clients or simply trying to get a handle on their overall expense management.”

The site, www.mastercardbusinessnetwork.com, is powered by Rearden Commerce’s Deem commerce platform.

American Express has reported financial results for the second quarter 2012, including net income of $1.3 billion, up 1% from a year ago.

“Consumer, small business and corporate cardmember spending, along with the business volumes generated by our network of bank partners, remained healthy despite a very uneven economy,” said Kenneth I. Chenault, chairman and chief executive officer. "Overall cardmember spending rose 7%, or 9% adjusted for foreign currency translations. That’s slower than the increases we’ve seen in the recent quarters, but it comes on top of a very strong performance a year ago, and continues to grow faster than most of our large issuer competitors.

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• Pay by Voice? So Long, Wallet - NYTimes.com (David Pogue)
• Nexus 7 Tablet Now Supports Google Wallet - Tom's Guide

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