PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL) 2016 Q2 法說會逐字稿

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to PayPal's second-quarter 2016 earnings conference call.

(Operator Instructions)

As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Ms. Gabrielle Rabinovitch, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Atif. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us.

Welcome to PayPal Holdings' financial conference call for the second quarter of 2016. Joining me today on the caller Dan Schulman, our President and CEO, and John Rainey, our Chief Financial Officer. We're providing a slide presentation to accompanying our commentary. This conference call is also being broadcast on the Internet, and both the presentation and call are available through the investor relations section of our website.

In discussing year-over-year comparisons, including guidance growth rates for the full-year 2016, we have chosen to present non-GAAP pro forma metrics, because we believe that these metrics provide investors a consistent basis for viewing the Company's performance across different periods. We will also discuss some non-GAAP measures in talking about our Company's performance, including the non-GAAP pro forma metric mentioned above. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP metrics to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics in the presentation accompanying this conference call.

In addition, management will make forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include our guidance for third-quarter and full-year 2016. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in this call. You can find more information about risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could affect our operating results in our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, and available on the investor relations section of our website.

You should not rely on any forward-looking statements. All information in this presentation is as of today's date, July 21, 2016. We disclaim any obligation to update the information.

With that, let me turn call over to Dan.

Thanks, Gabrielle. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for joining us on the call today.

I am pleased to say we had another strong quarter, with our financial results at the high end of our guidance, and in many cases, exceeding our own expectations. Of course, we announced earlier a multi-year partnership with Visa.

Before I discuss our results, I would like to point out that it's been one year since PayPal became a publicly-traded Company for the second time. In many ways, our listing last year was a full circle moment for PayPal. It allowed us to return to the core mission of our founders, the mission they were pursuing when they took PayPal public in 2002. Even with the Internet in its infancy, they saw the opportunity for technology to democratize money.

Today, our purpose is the same, but our opportunity is much greater, with the digitization of money accelerating, and the adoption of mobile devices continuing its rapid pace globally. PayPal's total addressable market has grown to include all of digital commerce and digital money, a $100 trillion opportunity. Today's announcement with Visa brings us closer to capitalizing on that opportunity.

The mission of PayPal is clear. We are striving to become an everyday essential financial service for under-served customers, and for our merchants we want to provide a full-service solution and platform that enables digital commerce. We are making tangible and consistent progress towards achieving these twin goals, while consistently delivering strong financial performance.

I'm proud that Q2 was another strong quarter for PayPal, both financially and strategically. Our partnership with Visa will help drive consumer choice, and provide enhanced value to the larger payment ecosystem.

But first, let's look at the financial metrics we delivered this quarter. We grew revenue at 19.5%, delivering $2.65 billion on the top line. Due to the challenging comps from Q2 last year, this exceeded our internal forecasts and guidance. We processed $86.2 billion in total payment volume, an increase of 29%, and our merchant services volume expanded 36%.

Our mobile payments volumes continues to accelerate, up 56% this quarter, accelerating for the third straight quarter. We hit a record of over $24 billion in mobile TPV in the quarter. In the last 12 months, we have added 19 million net active accounts, finishing the quarter with 188 million customer accounts transacting on the PayPal platform, and even as we add new active accounts, our transactions per account continue to expand, reaching 29 this quarter, up from 26 a year ago.

We generated $495 million of free cash flow in the quarter, giving our business tremendous flexibility to continue to reinvest in our growth. In the first six months of 2016, we have produced $1.1 billion of free cash flow, on track to meet our guidance of more than $2.1 billion for the year.

Finally, we delivered $0.36 of non-GAAP EPS versus our guidance of $0.34 to $0.36. I am proud of the PayPal team, and they worked hard to deliver these strong results.

I would like to now spend some time talking about the partnership announcement we made today with Visa, and the progress we are making towards enabling our strategy of being a true customer champion. Being a customer champion Company is not just words for us.

In order to be a great company over the long term, we need to provide the very best experience for our customers. We believe that means giving our customers full choice and optionality in where they want to pay, and how they want to pay. This change in our business model positions us to better serve our customers, and its fundamental for the long-term growth and success of PayPal.

While we expect this to drive incremental expense, we now have evidence to support the assertion that customer choice will benefit both our business model, and our customers over the medium-term. Our improved on-boarding experience, which we began rolling out last quarter, gives customers more choice when opening a PayPal account, and has already resulted in lifting our activations.

In the coming quarters, we will be rolling out account setting and checkout experiences that also deliver enhanced customer choice. We believe these new experiences will result in improved engagement and a reduction in customer churn, all very good things for both our customers, and for PayPal.

But we are already seeing another significant benefit. By making customer choice a priority for PayPal, we are opening up new opportunities for partnerships within our ecosystem. Today, PayPal and Visa announced a strategic partnership, to further expand our long-standing relationship. This agreement will allow both companies to offer greater choice to merchants and consumers, and increase value to Visa issuers and PayPal customers.

The benefits of this partnership include our ability to gain access to Visa's tokenization services, starting in the United States, for in-store PayPal transactions. This will allow customers to pay with their Visa instruments in the PayPal wallet at the millions of retail locations where they see the Visa contactless logo.

Importantly, retailers can expect to pay fees that are consistent with other contactless transactions they accept today. We will provide greater accessibility for Visa payment instruments in the PayPal digital wallet. PayPal will also provide Visa, their issuers, and their cardholders additional visibility into each Visa-funded transaction, providing greater transparency and enhancing payment systems security.

The agreement affords PayPal certain economic incentives, including Visa incentives for increased volume, and greater long-term Visa fee certainty, and removes the threats of any targeted pricing actions. This deal has the potential to be transformative for PayPal, Visa, and the industry. We believe it provides us the flexibility and the capability to execute against our customer champion vision, to partner with issuers and others who share our vision, and to accelerate PayPal's in-store access in new and profitable ways.

We also believe it provides more options for growth, and the ability to partner with others to mutually cross sell our various current and projected services to consumers and merchants around the world. All of these will take some time to come to fruition, but this agreement opens up a new chapter for PayPal. Giving customers choice in how and where they want to pay provides a pathway over the long term from our goal of two transactions a week from our current engagement of just over two per month. It's also important to say that we welcome the opportunity to work with more partners like Visa who share our vision, and we are in discussions with a variety of players in our ecosystem.

This is a new PayPal, one that is actively partnering across the digital payments landscape. For example, in the quarter, we also expanded the European rollout of the Vodafone wallet we talked about last quarter. Consumers in Spain and Italy can now tap and pay in stores with PayPal and Visa, another example of how PayPal is opening our platform to a slew of new partnerships. Our partnership with Facebook continues to expand, as do our efforts with Google, Pinterest, Alibaba, and eBay.

I am pleased with the quarter's results, but we still have much to execute in the back half of the year. We need to continually innovate and deepen customer engagement, in order to maintain and further widen the distance between our value proposition and that of our competition. And in keeping with that focus, Q2 saw significant progress in consumer and merchant engagement on the PayPal platform. We are making steady strides in our efforts to become an everyday essential financial service for under-served customers.

In the second quarter, transactions per account increased to 29, and we processed 1.4 billion transactions, a new milestone for PayPal and an increase of 25% from the same period last year. Deepening consumer engagement is no accident. It is driven by our innovative products and an increasingly robust platform, designed with our customers and their needs in mind. Our aim is to deliver transformative products that make payments easier, faster, more reliable, and more secure. Online, in mobile, in app, and in-store.

One Touch, our contextual commerce services, Venmo, and Xoom are all perfect examples of this. One Touch is the most rapidly adopted product in PayPal's history. As of the second quarter, over 25 million consumers have opted into One Touch, and I'm pleased to say that we now have over 2 million merchants offering this innovative way to pay. With a market-leading 87% conversion rate, we continue to see increased engagement and conversion with the use of One Touch.

We are continuing to invest and innovate in contextual commerce. Last year, Pinterest launched its first foray into buyable buttons. Braintree powered 80% of the Pinterest launched merchants. Building on this infrastructure, we are now powering Pinterest new shopping bag functionality that lets shoppers pick items from across the web, collect them in a shopping cart, and make a single purchase. This brings over 10 million unique products to Pinterest, for an even richer and more convenient in-context shopping experience.

And Venmo continues its rapid growth. In the quarter, Venmo processed almost $4 billion in P2P payments, an increase of 141% year-over-year. We are very focused and making steady progress with our Pay With Venmo pilot.

We have added eight more next-generation apps beyond Munchery and Gametime. These include Parking Panda, Crib, Wish, Box, popmarket and Poshmark. We have also further expanded the Venmo pilot from 1 million to from to 3.5 million Venmo users. We expect to add many more merchants and all of the Venmo consumer base later this year.

Xoom's US customers can now send money to loved ones in 53 countries, and it continues to redefine global remittances through mobile technology, ending the quarter with more than 70% of transactions originating on a mobile device. We continue to see the benefits of our integration efforts, with Xoom adding more than double the number of net new actives this quarter, versus a year ago. I'm pleased to say, we are executing on our acquisition business case, and I have high hopes for what Xoom can offer the PayPal consumers in the years ahead.

All of these innovative new experiences are driving PayPal's leadership in mobile payments. As I mentioned, PayPal processed over $24 billion in mobile payment volume, an increase of 56% year-over-year, and mobile now represents 28% of our total payment volume, up from 26% in the first quarter.

Mobile is arguably the most competitive arena in the digital payments ecosystem, and PayPal continues to widen its lead in gaining share. Two quarters ago, we grow our mobile volumes 45% year over year. Last quarter, 54%, and despite a substantially increased base of mobile transactions, we grew 56% this quarter.

We also continued to make substantial progress in acquiring new merchants and now have more than 14.5 million merchants transacting on our platform. Our increasing ability to provide a suite of innovative services for merchants is not only accelerating our competitive differentiation, but enabling us to be seen as a true full services payment partner. PayPal's merchant services payment volume was $71.3 billion in the quarter, increasing 36%.

Leading merchants continue to choose PayPal, including IKEA in multiple countries, the world's leading cruise brands of the Carnival Corporation, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland American Line, and Seabourn. Russia's VKontakte, Europe's largest social media network, with 360 million users. Women's fashion brand Talbots, Cathay Pacific, and Eventbrite, the world's largest self-service ticketing platform, has now launched with Braintree full staff processing. And Braintree continues to gain momentum, rapidly adding new merchants, ending the quarter with 309 million cards on file, an increase of 101% from the same period a year ago.

Finally, PayPal Working Capital continues to be an important way we gauge our small business merchants to support their growth. In Q2, we exceeded $2 billion in originations since our launch. We have now funded more than 90,000 small business merchants in the US, UK, and Australia. Our Working Capital merchants see an almost $0.50 increase in payment volume for every $1 of working capital extended to them by PayPal: clearly a powerful tool for our merchants.

Finally I would like to mention a few accolades we have recently received that highlight the strong progress we have made in the past year as an independent company. First, our financial performance has earned us a place on the Fortune 500 list, at number 307. Importantly, we are now being recognized for our leadership in innovation. Recently, InformationWeek named PayPal the number 11 Company in the country in terms of technology innovation.

And the value of our brand is also on the rise. The Financial Times recently came out with the BrandZ listing of the top 100 most valuable global brands. PayPal was one of the top 10 brands that increased its value most in 2016, gaining 35%, and rising from number 88 to the 65th most valuable brand across the globe.

And finally, and perhaps most meaningfully to many of us, consumers in the United States recently ranked 180 top brands across the world in terms of social impact, and doing the most good in the world. PayPal was ranked among the top five companies across the globe.

We have made strong progress in the 12 months since becoming public. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but the opportunities are coming into sharper focus, and are now clearly within our reach. We remain focused on executing with both discipline and excellence for our customers, and for our shareholders.

I would now like to turn the call over to John. John?

Thanks, Dan.

I also want to thank all of PayPal's customers and our employees worldwide, for making this another great quarter. Q2 marks another quarter where we advanced our goal of becoming a central part of our customers' daily financial lives, strengthened our position in the ecosystem, and enhanced our value proposition as a customer champion company.

First, I will walk you through the highlights of our second-quarter results. On a currency-neutral basis, total payment volume was $86.2 billion, an increase of 29%. US payment volume grew 27%, and international volume grew 31%.

Our merchant services business grew 36%, demonstrating that our strategy of being a customer champion and moving from being a payment button to an end-to-end payment solution for merchants of all sizes, continues to gain traction. We ended the quarter with 188 million active accounts, an 11% increase from a year ago. Account growth was predominantly driven by our PayPal core offering, followed by Venmo.

The number of payment transactions per account increased to 29, up 13% year-over-year, and an acceleration from the first quarter. This, when combined with the increase in active accounts, contributed to payment transaction growth of 25% year-over-year. In the second quarter, we generated revenue of $2.65 billion, up 19.5% on a currency neutral basis, and 15.6% on a spot basis. Q2 revenue exceeded our expectations, as a result of strong performance in our core business and Braintree.

In the second quarter, we faced difficult year-over-year comparisons from the amendment of our Synchrony co-branded credit card agreement, and the sale of a portion of our credit receivables portfolio last year, as well as the larger currency hedging gains in Q2 2015. We are pleased with our very strong top line performance, and our ability to offset these year-over-year pressures. Transaction revenue increased 23% on a currency-neutral basis in the quarter, an acceleration from the first quarter.

Performance was driven by large merchant growth in our core business, and strength in the Braintree business. This resulted in a transaction take rate of 2.69% for the second quarter, a decline of 22 basis points year over year. The decline was primarily driven by lower currency hedging revenue in the quarter versus last year, the growth of our P2P business, including Venmo, and the mix shift towards Braintree and larger merchants.

Revenue from other value-added services was flat versus last year, driven by the amendment of our Synchrony agreement, and the sale of our credit receivables in Q2 of last year, offset by solid results from our credit products. Transaction expense and transaction and loan losses, our volume-based expenses, increased 28%, in line with total payment volume growth. This resulted in a transaction margin of 59.8% versus 63.8% in Q2 of 2015.

In the quarter, on a year-over-year basis, the transaction margin decline was driven primarily by strong performance from Braintree, which has a lower take rate and higher transaction expense. The lapping of the amended Synchrony agreement, and the sale of a portion of our credit receivables, and the high margin hedge revenue we recognized in Q2 2015. Other expenses grew 10%, well below revenue growth, and drove 185 basis points of leverage.

Excluding the acquisition of Xoom, our other expenses increased approximately 7%, demonstrating good cost control. We continue to be focused on strong expense discipline. The scale of our platform allows us to carefully manage the growth of these other expenses, even as our revenue grew nearly 20% on a currency-neutral basis. We continued to see opportunity to manage these costs over time.

We delivered operating income of $528 million in the second quarter. For the first half of 2016, operating income increased 10% to $1.1 billion. Operating margin for the second quarter was 19.9%, a decline from last year, predominantly driven by the items I already mentioned affecting revenue, the amendment of our Synchrony agreement, and the sale of our credit receivables, both of which dropped directly to the bottom line.

We were also impacted by the acquisition of Xoom, which was approximately 40 basis points. But excluding these items, operating margin would have expanded approximately 100 basis points year over year.

We generated non-GAAP EPS of $0.36 per share for the quarter, the top end of our guidance range. For the first half of 2016, non-GAAP earnings-per-share increased 19% to $0.73. Second-quarter capital expenditures were $201 million, or approximately 8% of revenue. Free cash flow in the second quarter was $495 million, representing $0.19 of free cash flow for every dollar of revenue.

During the quarter, we also returned approximately $300 million to shareholders, by buying back an additional 8 million shares. Year to date we have returned approximately $900 million to shareholders, repurchasing 25 million shares, at an average price of $36.34. We ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents, and investments of $6.2 billion, including approximately $1.3 billion in the US.

I want to make a few comments regarding the UK's vote to leave the European Union. First, we should acknowledge that we are in the very early days, and exactly what happens from here will take some time to unfold. Europe generally, and the UK specifically, are very important parts of our business that we will continue to serve. In the second quarter, approximately 12% of our revenue was generated in the UK.

Because of the global nature of our business, we typically see a counterbalance effect when any one currency measurably weakens or strengthens. This is particularly pronounced in certain corridors like the US and Canada, and the UK and the EU, due to proximity and consumers' awareness of currency shifts. In the medium term, we're obviously going to keep a close eye on the broader economic environment, and any effect on customer behavior.

From a foreign currency standpoint, the euro and the pound are the two currencies where we have the most exposure. For that reason, we hedge both currencies, and our exposure from a translation perspective in 2016 is minimal. Importantly, our EU business is operated through our Luxembourg bank, where we are allowed to passport our banking license among the EU member states.

The UK's decision to exit the EU will have some impact on the regulatory framework under which we operate. We have been assessing the ramifications of the Leave vote since the referendum was announced, and once we have better clarity on how the relationship between the UK and the EU, with respect to financial services will be governed, we will take the necessary steps to be able to continue to serve our customers in the capacity that we do today.

Now, I would like to give you an update on our credit portfolio. Our credit products support and complement our platform, enhancing our digital payments offering for both our consumers, and our merchants. Credit drives a positive network effect for our business, increasing volume and engagement on our platform.

Credit represents approximately 2% of our TPV, and in the medium term, we expect the TPV contribution from our credit products to remain around this level. In addition, as we have said previously, we continue to assess asset-light strategies to fund and grow our credit offering. The performance of our credit portfolio continues to be in line with our expectations.

In the second quarter, we saw improvement in our delinquency rates, and most of our other credit quality metrics. We have, however, experienced a higher percentage of our late stage delinquent consumer credit balances rolling to charge-off. This has resulted in a charge-off rate of 6.3% versus 6.1% last quarter.

We attribute the increased charge-offs to changes in our own collection efforts that were recently instituted. We've taken steps to address this impact in the back half of this year. As Dan mentioned, our agreement with Visa, and more broadly our strategic decision to invest in customer choice, is a great opportunity for our customers, our shareholders, and other partners in the payment ecosystem.

This partnership will help drive the digitization of payments, both in mobile and in-store. Much has been made about the blurring of the off-line and online worlds through digital payments. The agreement with Visa is an important step, allowing us to more fully participate in this powerful secular shift, with our mobile-first strategy, complemented by Visa's in-store strengths.

We have an expansive vision for PayPal, including being an everyday part of our customers' financial lives. Customer choice, as we refer to it, involves empowering our customers to use PayPal where they want to pay, and how they want to pay, and is the vehicle for achieving that vision. For the remainder of 2016, we do not anticipate any material impact to our results from the movement to choice.

Beginning next year, we expect the changes to our funding mix from customer choice will increase transaction expense. But at the same time, we believe expanding customer choice will unlock future revenue opportunities. Moving to customer choice and our agreement with Visa lays the foundation for sustainable revenue growth, with more certainty in our cost structure. It's very early on, and we're only six months through the year. As we get closer to year-end, we will provide more detail on the impact of this, and how it affects our 2017 performance.

Finally, I would like to discuss our financial guidance for the third quarter and full year. Our strong performance in the first half of the year across our core business, Braintree and P2P, in addition to our growing mode of penetration further validates our strategies and our business priorities.

As a result, we are raising our full-year 2016 revenue guidance to $10.75 billion to $10.85 billion, or 19% to 20% growth on a currency-neutral basis. We are also narrowing the non-GAAP earnings range to $1.47 to $1.50 per share, representing growth of 18%, at the high end of the range. We are reaffirming our full-year prior 2016 guidance on free cash flow, CapEx and non-GAAP effective tax rate.

For the third quarter, we expect revenue in the range of $2.6 billion to $2.67 billion, or 19% to 21% growth on a currency neutral basis. We expect non-GAAP earnings of $0.33 to $0.35 per share.

In conclusion, our second-quarter results demonstrate the continued progress we're making in our business. Revenue is strong. We are combining that with excellent cost control, to generate healthy margins and strong free cash flow. We continued to allocate capital in a way that generates shareholder value.

Our partnership with Visa has removed an overhang on our business, giving us greater cost certainty going forward, allowing us to profitably participate in the off-line market, and creating the foundation for being a customer champion.

With that, I will turn it over to the operator for questions. Thank you.

(Operator Instructions)

Tien-tsin Huang, JPMorgan.

Congrats on the Visa deal. I was curious, can we still rely upon your midterm guidance after considering the Visa partnership? I know there's a lot of moving pieces obviously, but curious if the midterm guidance still applies?

Thanks, Tien-tsin, I appreciate it. This is John. We will update that if it's appropriate, as we get closer to the year end. Like I suggested in my prepared remarks, we are very early on into this. We are very encouraged by the agreement. We think it's a fantastic opportunity for PayPal. And it's likely to possibly affect the way our financial outlook into the future, but we're not prepared to update that at this time.

Heath Terry, Goldman Sachs.

On the part of the Visa agreement around contactless payments, and the enablement of offline acceptance, can you give us a sense of what the process is going to look like for that? Visa mentioned on their call that you still have to get approval from the financial institutions, from the merchants. How do you intend to get more out of this enablement than we saw out of the Discover deal, and what's the roadmap look like to get there, particularly from a timing perspective?

It's Dan. Thanks for your question. We are very excited about the partnership with Visa. I think it's very important to understand that I think as Charlie said on the Visa call, partnerships like the one we announced today, that's when there's alignment for everyone.

We believe that we have designed an agreement that works for PayPal, Visa and the issuers. We have been in discussions with issuers -- Visa has been in discussions with its issuers, and they are excited about the benefit from the volumes that we can bring to them, and that we can bring to the point of sale. And as Charlie pointed out, this agreement removes many of the concerns, if not all of the concerns, that issuers and others in the ecosystem have about working with PayPal.

Choice is something that everybody has been talking about. What issuers want, what we want is the ability for a consumer to make a choice, to have options as to what payment tender type they want to pay with. What that basically means is that a consumer could pay with their credit, with ACH, with debit, with cash, P2P with PayPal Credit, any of those. But it's the option of the consumer to make that choice. And then when you add on top of that optionality, the fact that we are very willing and happy to share the same source of data that somebody would get with a typical credit card swipe back to the networks, back to the issuers, and to customers, that's exactly what issuers have been asking for.

We actually think that this deal that we have with Visa offers a couple of benefits. Obviously, it offers access to tokens at rates that are comparable to other contactless methods out there, and so we can compete with anybody now, at point-of-sale. There's no competitive disadvantage to anybody else out there. We can go offline profitably.

Second, we get fee certainty, as we talked about, no targeted actions against PayPal. Limits on new fees, even industry-based fees, and volume-based discounts. We have certainty around our cost structure.

And very importantly, I think this opens us up to new partnerships. New partnerships with issuers, networks, and others. Choice and data turn us into their friends.

And when I think about the partnerships that we have, we are an ideal distribution mechanism to drive more online and mobile spend to issuers. They're an ideal partner to drive incremental net adds and customers into the PayPal platform. That's a win-win for both of us.

This is going to open up a new chapter for PayPal to partner with, and for all of us to work together, to advance digital payments going forward. And as I mentioned in my remarks and John mentioned, choice also is going to help us drive incremental new net adds. We're already seeing that in some of the changes we have made to our onboarding.

When you look at One Touch and you see what our customers do when they're able to default a payment mechanism, their engagement goes up, their conversion rates go up. And obviously when a customer gets to choose what instrument they want, we are going to see less calls come into customer care for us, we're going to see customer satisfaction go up, and typically when that happens, customer churn goes down.

We think this is a very strong agreement that benefits Visa, its issuers and us. Allows us to work within the ecosystem. And the issuers don't need to sign any unique agreements with us. It's simply an opt-in to participate with us, it's no additional work from them. And our movement to choice, data sharing, plus our commitment to quality puts us on par with others that are using Visa tokens in the ecosystem.

Great. Thanks Dan.

Lisa Ellis, Bernstein.

One follow-up question on the Visa arrangement, around activating at the point-of-sale. In that scenario, do you remain the merchant of record, and does it flow over your acquiring platform or is the construct more of a pass-through wallet as that's envisioned?

For the point-of-sale we would do a pass-through on the token level, so that there would be transparency on that. We've always said that we are perfectly willing to use the industry tokens, and do that on a pass-through basis, and this agreement allows us to do that. It allows us one, to approach merchants with rates that are comparable to any digital wallet that are out there. This whole card not present, card present rate structure that people are talking about, this takes away that concern, as well.

It's an agreement that our two teams spent a lot of time working with. A lot of time making sure that the issuer population was also comfortable with it. We think it is a tremendous win for all the parties on that.

Got it. On those transactions -- sorry, just to clarify, it's still processing over your acquiring platform, meaning the merchant will be paying you directly their typical fee.

[If that merchant uses PayPal for acquiring, then we would process the token. However, if that merchant uses some other acquirer, then the token would process with the merchant's existing acquirer. Most merchants do not use PayPal for in-store acquiring] (corrected by company after the call)

Terrific. Thanks.

James Friedman, Susquehanna.

I was going to pivot out of the Visa conversation and ask you about Braintree. In the past, Dan, you have disclosed, or discussed at least, some of the backlog in Braintree. I was wondering if you could update us, if not quantitatively, what does it take to actually activate the merchant from the backlog from a Braintree perspective?

We are making very good progress in terms of our ability to work through the large demand that we have for Braintree. In effect, we try to make it as easy as possible on a merchant. We have ABI sets that makes it easy to integrate. It really depends on the extent of the integration that we are doing and then you have the customization that we have to do. But I'd say we are making really good progress on keeping up with the demand. Right now, the demand is strong, as John mentioned. That's why we are -- part of the reason why we are ticking up our revenue forecast. But I'm really pleased with our ability now to onboard those customers and bring them live to site.

Thank you.

George Mihalos, Cowen.

I was wondering if you could give us a rough sense, how much of your TPV now goes through the Visa network, both on a credit and debit perspective? I just want to be clear, there is no initial incentive that is going to be provided to that volume starting day one, right? You'll have to go negotiate that with the issuers?

We have volume-based incentives from Visa, themselves. There are also other potential terms that we could do with issuers specifically. Your first question was?

How much volume -- and that's not something we will disclose, but maybe George, I can give you a construct or framework to think about this, because I understand why you're asking the question. If you consider, we have just rough order of magnitude $300 billion of TPV today. If you were to look at a funding shift on that, that would overstate the effect of funding shift, because this agreement for now is US only. And as we've disclosed in the past, it's roughly half of our TPV.

We also see differences in funding mix between P2P versus goods and services. You've got to strip that out or at least treat that differently. We disclosed earlier this year that P2P is roughly $40 billion of our annual TPV.

Lastly, you need to also consider that there is a large percentage of our customers today that only have a card in the wallet. Choice for them -- there would be no other increase in cost by moving, by adding additional card, a different card. From a cost side, that's the right framework to think about this.

I would also add to that George, remember, this is about optionality. All tender types will be presented to the customer for them to choose the tender type and makes the most sense for them, for that particular purchase. And we've seen that is a beneficial thing, when we offer customers that ability.

Given the early stages of testing some of these experiences with customers, we see really encouraging signs, just with things like customer activation, where you remove some of the friction from that process. And as Dan alluded to earlier, One Touch has been a great test bed for us, as we've seen pretty dramatic increases in engagement after someone activates there.

Great. And just a quick follow up. John, I think you talked about taking some steps on the PayPal Credit side to maybe mitigate some of the increases that you've seen in charge-offs. Can you elaborate on that on what that might mean for the back half of the year?

Sure. As Dan talked about on the call last quarter, since we have become an independent company, we've really tried to establish ourselves as at least aspiring to be best in class when it comes to compliance. We think that's really important for us. It's part of being a customer champion.

And so we have taken steps across every aspect of our business to improve our compliance. Specifically, we changed some of the ways that both we contacted customers as well as the repayment options for credit that had some effect on the late stage delinquencies. There were other methods that we could do, to mitigate that impact, and we're availing ourselves of those options for the back half of the year.

And also just say, as John mentioned, we are seeing some improvements in the underlying credit quality of our base, delinquency write-offs on that. So it's just that one particular bucket that we saw an increase, so we are taking actions to address that. But in terms of the overall portfolio, we are very comfortable with what we are seeing on that.

If I could just add maybe a little bit more color to that. Our total delinquencies were actually down year-over-year. When we look at the percentage of our portfolio, it's rated prime or above, that grew by 1 point.

A better credit quality year-over-year. The 90-day delinquency is down year-over-year and our portfolio of FICO score is relatively flat with where it's been. It's -- we are very keen on all of the concern around this, with other players in the ecosystem, and we are aware of that. It's something that we are hyperfocused on.

Great. Really appreciate the color.

Ashwin Shirvaikar, Citi.

Congratulations on getting the deal done. Two separate questions. On the [reset related] customer choice, when you say no impact on 2016, is that indicative of your view as to how long it might take to make specific deals with issuers? That's the first question. And the second is with regards to how does the agreement affect your relationship with merchants, and your weighted average funding cost is an important part of the discussion, but not the only factor. If you could comment on those.

In terms of our guidance for 2016, it incorporates any impact that there might be from customer choice. But you're right, that this takes some time for this to be implemented and to move forward. So our guidance incorporates any impact that there might be from customer choice.

And as John mentioned, we will wait until we get closer to 2017, to give 2017 guidance. First of all, obviously, we will take a look at consumer behavior as a result of this. There are a number of discussions going on in the ecosystem, and we want to look at the totality of the landscape before we really talk about what 2017 could look like. And finally, we're halfway through the year. We've got a full, another six months to execute against, and let's see how our momentum takes us, before we provide 2017 guidance.

And on the merchant side, merchants have been working with us quite closely, as we are creating a platform for them to take advantage of digital commerce. That basically means letting a merchant write their own application, and we power that application through a platform that enables them to extend a value proposition to their customers online, mobile, and in-store.

And part of that in-store environment, when it comes to the PayPal wallet, we did not have a tokenization schema, we used different forms of that. And so from a merchant's perspective, the rates now that we could offer on an in-store point-of-sale transaction are significantly more competitive for them. And so it just strengthens our position, in terms of working with merchants.

No change in our strategy, but it certainly strengthens it and opens up a wide opportunity for us. As we talk about the blurring of online and offline coming together. This really opens up our ability to move into any context, whether it be online, in app or in store with our digital wallet.

Quick follow up if I may, in terms of the offline charge, how is Paydient affected by this, if it is?

Great question. Paydient is not impacted at all. Paydient is part of our fundamental underlying platform. When you think about the piece parts that we started to put together, we had PayPal, it was obviously very strong in an online market. Braintree, extremely strong in the mobile and in app marketplace, and Paydient very strong in the in-store environment.

And so all of those are now coming together, and being integrated, so that we can offer merchants the ability to look across any of those contexts, and use our platform to power and enable their move into digital commerce. Then what we've done, obviously, is because our base is so large, we take our branded PayPal wallet, which now is available to go into more contexts, as I just mentioned, and write up those applications, because we have so many subscribers that we can bring to those merchants.

So you've got a platform play that's really unbranded that supports a merchant's move into digital commerce, and then a branded wallet. This helps us with our branded wallet, to move into that offline space.

Thank you for that.

Operator, I think we have time for one more question.

Bill Carcache, Nomura.

Dan, there is some skepticism regarding the willingness of issuers to promote PayPal. Could you speak to what you think will lead issuers to want to promote their brands on PayPal during the exclusivity period, and maybe give a little more color on what the receptivity has been in your discussions with the large issuers? And finally, what your confidence level is that you will be able to get some of them on board?

We have a high degree of confidence in that. We haven't worked this agreement in a vacuum. Nor has Visa worked in a vacuum.

We've obviously been working with the issuer community. We've obviously been in very close communications with them. We been in close communications, actually throughout the whole payment ecosystem, with quite a number of players.

This move towards choice, our ability to open up our data, is something that issuers have been asking us for, for quite some time. I think they are -- based on our conversations, conversations that Visa has had with its own issuers and we have been a part of some of those, there is a lot of excitement about the ability to partner and work together.

We think we can be a very strong distribution channel for them. You've talked about that in some of your write-ups and that's exactly the vision that we are moving towards. We have a good degree of confidence around that.

Thank you. If I may, a follow-up for John. John, I believe that you made the point at investor day that the increase in your transaction expense rate from the shift to consumer choice would be something that you could offset with operating leverage inherent in the business. Given the partnership announcement and all of the different aspects to it, you are saying tonight that doesn't necessarily still hold, you will reevaluate over the next couple quarters, when you give 2017 guidance, say whether that's still the case? Or just trying to get a sense of the applicability of that statement, still.

That's not entirely correct. But just talking directionally, we have -- I would describe this as very analogous, Bill, to like an investment that one would make. An acquisition, for example. Where there's perhaps an upfront cost but there's a revenue stream that more than offsets that, to where it's very accretive to the business. With respect to the increase in transaction expense, we will give more specific guidance as we get towards the end of the year, about 2017.

But when you look at both the revenue benefit, as well as the good demonstrated cost control that you've seen for several quarters now, and just look at the overall 180 basis points leverage this quarter, and the fact that our operating expenses, if you normalize with the Xoom acquisition only went up 7% in the quarter. We can continue to demonstrate that we have a laser focus on discipline here, while still not starving the business for investment, as well. We're making sure that we are continuing to invest organically. All that in combination gives us a level of comfort with this, that it is absolutely the right thing to do for the business. Specific to 2017, we will give you a heads up on that towards the year end.

Great. Thank you for taking my questions.

Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. We really appreciate your time. Operator, that will conclude our Q&A session. Thank you.

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