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Exhibit 99.1

[ — ], 2015

Dear eBay Inc. (“eBay”) Stockholder:

In September 2014, we announced plans to separate our Payments business and our Marketplaces business. The separation will occur by means of a distribution of a newly formed corporation named PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal”), which will contain the businesses that make up our Payments segment. eBay, the existing publicly traded corporation, will continue to operate our Marketplaces business. As two distinct publicly traded corporations, eBay and PayPal will be better positioned to capitalize on significant growth opportunities and focus their resources on their respective businesses and strategic priorities.

eBay and PayPal are two great businesses with leading global positions in commerce and payments, respectively. For more than a decade, eBay and PayPal have mutually benefited from being part of one company, creating substantial stockholder value. As part of its strategic planning process, the board of directors has assessed whether eBay and PayPal should remain together. Until September 2014, the combination of the two businesses and the synergies and benefits they offered to each other were so valuable that the board determined that separation was not appropriate. But the commerce and payments landscape is rapidly changing, and each business faces different competitive opportunities and challenges. Consequently, in September 2014 the board decided to separate the businesses. As independent companies, we expect eBay and PayPal will be sharper and stronger, and more focused and competitive as leading, standalone companies in their respective markets. eBay and PayPal also will benefit from additional flexibility and agility to pursue new market and partnership opportunities.

The new eBay will be a global commerce leader and, we believe, the most inspiring and engaging place to discover great value and unique selection anytime, anywhere. We have an incredibly strong position, with 155 million active buyers globally as of the end of 2014. In 2014, eBay Marketplaces handled approximately $83 billion of gross merchandise volume, growing 9% year over year. Additionally, eBay is one of the world’s top 30 global brands. Offering consumers worldwide extraordinary value and selection, eBay had more than 800 million live listings at the end of 2014, and approximately 80% of sold items are new. And the company is well-positioned as a leader in the growth areas of mobile and cross-border commerce. With over 250 million eBay app downloads since inception, eBay generated $28 billion in mobile volume in 2014. During the same time, cross-border commerce represented approximately 17% of eBay’s gross merchandise volume, and 60% of Marketplaces’ revenue was international. Looking ahead, eBay will continue to focus on enhancing its unique assets and capabilities and creating new commerce experiences to ensure long-term growth and on-going commerce leadership.

The separation will provide current eBay stockholders with equity ownership in both eBay and PayPal. We expect that the distribution of PayPal common stock will be tax-free, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, to eBay stockholders.

The separation will be effected by means of a pro rata distribution of 100% of the outstanding shares of PayPal common stock to holders of eBay common stock. Each eBay stockholder will receive one share of PayPal common stock for every [ — ] share of eBay common stock held as of the close of business on [ — ], 2015, the record date for the distribution. No vote of eBay stockholders is required for the distribution. You do not need to take any action to receive shares of PayPal common stock to which you are entitled as an eBay stockholder, and you do not need to pay any consideration or surrender or exchange your shares of eBay common stock.

We encourage you to read the attached information statement, which is being provided to all eBay stockholders who held shares of eBay common stock on the record date for the distribution. The information statement describes the separation in detail and contains important business and financial information about PayPal.

We believe the separation provides tremendous opportunities for our businesses and our stockholders, as we work to continue building long-term stockholder value. We appreciate your continuing support of eBay, and look forward to your future support of both companies.

Sincerely,

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Dear Future PayPal Stockholder:

It is my pleasure to welcome you as a future stockholder of our company, PayPal Holdings, Inc. Following the distribution of all of the outstanding shares of PayPal common stock by eBay Inc. to its stockholders, PayPal will be an independent, publicly traded company focused on making money work better for people and businesses around the world.

The access to and movement of money is an important market that affects the lives of almost everyone. Our mission is to increase our relevance for consumers, merchants, friends and family to access and move their money anywhere in the world, anytime, on any platform and through any device (e.g., mobile, tablets, personal computers or wearables).

We operate proprietary global technology platform that connects merchants and consumers around the globe. In 2014, approximately 162 million active customer accounts processed payments on our platform. Total payment volume over the last 12 months increased by 26% to $235 billion, as more consumers and merchants trusted PayPal to pay and get paid. We have significant global reach, processing transactions in more than 200 markets, allowing our customers to receive payments in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 57 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 26 currencies. We are a leader in mobile payments and processed nearly 1 billion mobile transactions in 2014 for our customers.

Our stockholder value proposition is simple. We strive to provide superior returns to PayPal stockholders by maintaining our leadership position in the payments industry and investing in the growth of our newly standalone company.

We invite you to learn more about PayPal, our business and our strategic initiatives by reading the enclosed information statement. We urge you to read the information statement carefully and in its entirety. We are excited by the tremendous opportunity we have in front of us and look forward to your support as a holder of our common stock.

Sincerely,

Daniel H. Schulman

President and CEO-Designee

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

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Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A Registration Statement on Form 10 relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED FEBRUARY 25, 2015

INFORMATION STATEMENT

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

This information statement is being furnished in connection with the distribution by eBay Inc. (“eBay”) to its stockholders of all of the outstanding shares of common stock of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal”), a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay that will hold directly or indirectly the assets and liabilities associated with eBay’s Payments business. To implement the distribution, eBay will distribute all of the shares of PayPal common stock on a pro rata basis to eBay stockholders in a transaction that is intended to qualify as tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Please refer to the “Presentation of Information” below for how we refer to “eBay Inc.,” “eBay” and “PayPal” in this Information Statement.

You will receive one share of PayPal common stock for every [ — ] shares of eBay common stock held of record by you as of the close of business on [ — ], 2015, the record date for the distribution. You will receive cash in lieu of any fractional shares of PayPal common stock that you would have received after application of the above ratio. As discussed under “The Separation and Distribution—Trading Between the Record Date and Distribution Date,” if you sell your eBay common stock in the “regular-way” market after the record date and before the distribution, you also will be selling your right to receive shares of PayPal common stock in connection with the separation. PayPal expects the shares of PayPal common stock to be distributed by eBay to you at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on [ — ], 2015. We refer to the date of the distribution of the shares of PayPal common stock as the “distribution date.”

No vote of eBay stockholders is required for the distribution. Therefore, you are not being asked for a proxy, and you are requested not to send eBay a proxy, in connection with the distribution. You do not need to pay any consideration, exchange or surrender your existing shares of eBay common stock or take any other action to receive your shares of PayPal common stock.

There is no current trading market for PayPal common stock, although PayPal expects that a limited market, commonly known as a “when-issued” trading market, will develop on or shortly before the record date for the distribution, and PayPal expects “regular-way” trading of PayPal common stock to begin on the first trading day following the completion of the distribution. PayPal intends to apply to have its common stock authorized for listing on the [ — ] under the symbol “[ — ].” Following the spin-off, eBay common stock will continue to trade on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “EBAY.”

In reviewing this information statement, you should carefully consider the matters described under the caption “ Risk Factors ” beginning on page 14.

Neither the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this information statement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

This information statement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.

The date of this information statement is [ — ], 2015.

This information statement was first mailed to eBay stockholders on or about [ — ], 2015.

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Presentation of Information

On September 30, 2014, eBay Inc. (“eBay”) announced its intent to separate its payments business into an independent, publicly-traded company. To accomplish this separation, in January 2015, eBay incorporated PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal Holdings”) which will ultimately become the parent of PayPal, Inc. and will hold directly or indirectly all of the assets and liabilities associated with PayPal, Inc. References to “we,” “our,” “us,” “the Company” or “PayPal” refer to the combined entities of the payments business of eBay, including PayPal, Inc. and certain other assets and liabilities that have been historically held at the eBay corporate level, but are specifically identifiable and attributable to the payments business.

Except as otherwise indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, the information included in this information statement about PayPal assumes the completion of all of the transactions referred to in this information statement in connection with the separation and distribution. References in this information statement to “eBay” refer to eBay Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries, which prior to the separation and distribution, but not after such date, includes the business and operations of PayPal.

Trademarks, Trade Names and Service Marks

PayPal owns or has rights to use the trademarks, service marks and trade names that it uses in conjunction with the operation of its business. Some of the more important trademarks that PayPal owns or has rights to use that appear in this information statement include: PayPal ^® , PayPal Credit ^® , Braintree and Venmo, which may be registered or trademarked in the United States and other jurisdictions. PayPal’s rights to some of these trademarks may be limited to select markets. Each trademark, trade name or service mark of any other company appearing in this information statement is, to PayPal’s knowledge, owned by such other company.

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Attention: Investor Relations

(408) 376-7493

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San Jose, California 95131

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RISK FACTORS

The following discussion is divided into three sections. The first section, which begins immediately following this paragraph, discusses some of the risks that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The second section, captioned “Risk Related to the Separation,” discusses some of the risks relating to our plan to separate PayPal into an independent publicly traded company. The third section, captioned “Risks Related to Our Common Stock,” discusses some of the risk relating to an investment in PayPal’s Common Stock. You should carefully review all of these sections, as well as our combined financial statements and notes thereto and the other information appearing in this report, for important information regarding risks that affect us.

Risk Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Financial Condition

Our operating and financial results come primarily from transactions involving payments made in a reporting period and are therefore subject to fluctuations that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, as well as the trading price of our common stock.

Our operating and financial results have varied on a quarterly basis during our operating history and may continue to fluctuate significantly as a result of a variety of factors, including as a result of the risks set forth in this “Risk Factors” section. It is difficult for us to forecast the level or source of our revenues or earnings (loss) accurately. In view of the rapidly evolving nature of our business, period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as an indication of future performance. We do not have backlog, and substantially all of our net revenues each quarter come primarily from transactions involving payments during that quarter. Due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting revenues, it is also difficult to forecast expenses as a percentage of net revenues. Quarterly and annual expenses as a percentage of net revenues reflected in our combined financial statements may be significantly different from historical or projected rates. Our operating results in one or more future quarters may fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors. The trading price of our common stock could decline, perhaps substantially, as a result of the factors described in this paragraph.

Global and regional economic conditions could harm our business.

Our operations and performance depend significantly on global and regional economic conditions. Adverse economic conditions and events (including volatility or distress in the equity and/or debt or credit markets and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates) have in the past negatively impacted regional and global financial markets and will likely continue to do so from time to time in the future. These events and conditions could have a negative and adverse impact on the companies and customers with which we do business. In addition, financial turmoil affecting the banking system or financial markets could cause additional consolidation of the financial services industry, or significant financial service institution failures, new or incremental tightening in the credit markets, low liquidity, and extreme volatility in fixed income, credit, currency, and equity markets. Adverse impacts to the companies and customers with which we do business, the banking system, or financial markets could have a material adverse effect on our business, including a reduction in the volume and prices of transactions on our payments platforms.

Our success depends to a large degree on our ability to successfully address the rapidly evolving market for transactions on mobile devices.

Mobile devices are increasingly used for ecommerce transactions and payments. A significant and growing portion of our customers access our platforms through mobile devices. We may lose customers if we are not able to continue to meet our customers’ mobile and multi-screen experience expectations. The variety of technical and other configurations across different mobile devices and platforms increases the challenges associated with this environment. In addition, a number of other companies with significant resources and a number of innovative startups have introduced products and services focusing on mobile markets.

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Our ability to successfully address the challenges posed by the rapidly evolving market for mobile transactions is crucial to our continued success, and any failure to continuously increase the volume of mobile transactions effected through our platforms could harm our business.

If we cannot keep pace with rapid technological developments to provide new and innovative programs, products and services, the use of our products and our revenues could decline.

Rapid, significant technological changes continue to confront the industries in which we operate, including developments in smart cards, tokenization, ecommerce, mobile, and radio frequency and proximity payment devices, such as contactless payments. We cannot predict the effect of technological changes on our business. In addition to our own initiatives and innovations, we rely in part on third parties, including some of our competitors, for the development of and access to new technologies. We expect that new services and technologies applicable to the industries in which we operate will continue to emerge. These new services and technologies may be superior to, or render obsolete, the technologies we currently use in our products and services. Incorporating new technologies into our products and services may require substantial expenditures and take considerable time, and ultimately may not be successful. In addition, our ability to adopt new services and develop new technologies may be inhibited by industry-wide standards, payments networks, new laws and regulations, resistance to change from consumers or merchants, or third parties’ intellectual property rights. Our success will depend on our ability to develop new technologies and adapt to technological changes and evolving industry standards.

Changes in how consumers fund their PayPal transactions could harm our business.

We pay significant transaction fees when consumers fund payment transactions using credit cards, lower fees when consumers fund payments with debit cards, nominal fees when consumers fund payment transactions by electronic transfer of funds from bank accounts, and no fees when consumers fund payment transactions from an existing PayPal account balance or through the PayPal Credit products. Our financial success is highly sensitive to changes in the rate at which our consumers fund payments using credit and debit cards, which can significantly increase our costs. Some of our consumers may prefer to use credit and debit cards if these cards offer functionality and benefits not associated with the use of their bank accounts. Some of our offerings, including the ability of consumers to make a limited number of “guest” payments without opening a PayPal account, have a higher rate of payment card funding than our basic product offering. An increase in the portion of our payment volume using credit and debit cards would materially and adversely affect our financial performance. Some of our plans to lower our funding costs, including both the PayPal Credit products and the ability for consumers to defer payment for a short period of time on some transactions, may increase the risk to us of nonpayment by consumers. An increase in fees associated with our funding mix or in losses associated with nonpayment by consumers could harm our business.

Our business is subject to online security risks, including security breaches.

Our business involves the storage and transmission of customers’ personal financial information. In addition, a significant number of our customers authorize us to bill their payment card accounts directly for all transaction and other fees charged by us. We have built our reputation on the premise that our payments platform offers customers a secure way to make payments. An increasing number of websites, including those owned by several other large Internet and offline companies, have disclosed breaches of their security, some of which have involved sophisticated and highly targeted attacks on portions of their websites or infrastructure. In May 2014, eBay Inc. publicly announced that criminals were able to penetrate and steal certain data, including user names, encrypted user passwords and other non-financial user data from certain of its Marketplaces business unit databases, which led to Marketplaces requiring a password reset and fewer transactions using our PayPal services. A breach of security at PayPal could have negative consequences to our reputation, which could result in our customers using our services less often, and have significant out-of-pocket financial impact.

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The techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable, or degrade service, or sabotage systems, change frequently, may be difficult to detect for a long time, and often are not recognized until launched against a target. Certain efforts may be state sponsored and supported by significant financial and technological resources and therefore may be even more difficult to detect. As a result, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. Unauthorized parties may also attempt to gain access to our systems or facilities through various means, including hacking into our systems or facilities, fraud, trickery or other means of deceiving our employees, contractors and temporary staff. A party that is able to circumvent our security measures could misappropriate our or our customers’ personal proprietary information, cause interruption in our operations and damage our computers or those of our customers. In addition, our customers have been and likely will continue to be targeted by parties using fraudulent “spoof” and “phishing” emails to misappropriate user names, passwords, payment card numbers, or other personal information or to introduce viruses or other malware through “trojan horse” programs to our customers’ computers. Also, our information technology and infrastructure may be vulnerable to cyberattacks or security incidents and third parties may be able to access our customers’ proprietary information and payment card data that are stored on or accessible through our systems. Any security breach at a company providing services to us or our customers could have similar effects. Because we promote to our customers that our payments platform offers a secure way to make payments, a security breach would have a significant impact on our reputation.

In addition, under payment card rules and our contracts with our card processors, if there is a breach of payment card information that we store, or that is stored by our direct payment card processing customers, we could be liable to the payment card issuing banks for their cost of issuing new cards and related expenses. If we were unable to accept payment cards, our business would be harmed. Additionally, financial services regulators in various jurisdictions, including the United States and the European Union, have implemented or are considering proposals to impose new authentication requirements on banks and payment processors intended to reduce online fraud, which could impose significant costs, require us to change our business practices, make it more difficult for new customers to join PayPal, and reduce the ease of use of our products, which could harm our business.

We may also need to expend significant additional resources to protect against security breaches or to redress problems caused by breaches. These issues are likely to become more difficult and costly as we expand the number of markets where we operate. Additionally, our insurance policies carry low coverage limits, which may not be adequate to reimburse us for losses caused by security breaches and we may not be able to fully collect, if at all, under these insurance policies.

Systems failures and resulting interruptions in the availability of our websites, applications, products or services could harm our business.

Our systems may experience service interruptions or degradation because of hardware and software defects or malfunctions, computer denial-of-service and other cyberattacks, human error, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, natural disasters, power losses, disruptions in telecommunications services, fraud, military or political conflicts, terrorist attacks, computer viruses, or other events. Our systems are also subject to break-ins, sabotage and intentional acts of vandalism. Some of our systems are not fully redundant and our disaster recovery planning is not sufficient for all eventualities. In addition, as a provider of payments solutions, we are subject to increased scrutiny by regulators that may require specific business continuity and disaster recovery plans and more rigorous testing of such plans. This increased scrutiny may be costly and time consuming and may divert our resources from other business priorities.

We have experienced and will likely continue to experience system failures, denial of service attacks and other events or conditions from time to time that interrupt the availability or reduce the speed or functionality of our websites and mobile applications. These events have resulted and likely will result in loss of revenue. A prolonged interruption in the availability or reduction in the speed or other functionality of our websites and mobile applications could materially harm our business. Frequent or persistent interruptions in our services could

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cause current or potential customers to believe that our systems are unreliable, leading them to switch to our competitors or to avoid our sites, and could permanently harm our reputation and brands. Moreover, to the extent that any system failure or similar event results in damages to our customers or their businesses, these customers could seek significant compensation from us for their losses and those claims, even if unsuccessful, would likely be time-consuming and costly for us to address.

Our website has suffered significant intermittent unavailability, including for example, transaction failures which affected some customers in the United Kingdom for over 24 hours in August 2014 and mobile login failures which affected some customers for several hours in April 2014. Reliability is particularly critical for us because the full-time availability of our PayPal services is critical to our goal of gaining widespread acceptance among consumers and merchants for digital and mobile payments. We have undertaken certain system upgrades and re-platforming efforts designed to improve our reliability and speed. These efforts are costly and time consuming, involve significant technical risk and may divert our resources from new features and products, and there can be no guarantee that these efforts will succeed. Because we are a regulated financial institution, frequent or persistent site interruptions could lead to regulatory scrutiny, significant fines and penalties, or mandatory and costly changes to our business practices, and ultimately could cause us to lose existing licenses we need to operate or prevent us from obtaining additional licenses that we need to expand.

We also rely on facilities, components and services supplied by third parties and our business may be materially adversely affected to the extent these components or services do not meet our expectations or these third parties cease to provide the services or facilities. In particular, a decision by any of our third party hosting providers to close a facility that we use could cause system interruptions and delays, result in loss of critical data and cause lengthy interruptions in our services. We do not carry business interruption insurance sufficient to compensate us for losses that may result from interruptions in our service as a result of systems failures and similar events.

Changes to payment card networks or bank fees, rules, or practices could harm our business.

We do not directly access the payment card networks, such as Visa and MasterCard, that enable our acceptance of credit cards and debit cards (including some types of prepaid cards). As a result, we must rely on banks or other payment processors to process transactions, and must pay fees for the services. From time to time, payment card networks have increased, and may increase in the future, the interchange fees and assessments that they charge for each transaction which accesses their networks. Our payment card processors have the right to pass any increases in interchange fees and assessments on to us as well as increase their own fees for processing. Any changes in interchange fees and assessments could increase our operating costs and reduce our operating income.

In addition, in some jurisdictions, governments have required Visa and MasterCard to reduce interchange fees, or have opened investigations as to whether Visa’s or MasterCard’s interchange fees and practices violate antitrust law. In the United States, the Federal Reserve Board issued a final rule capping debit card interchange fees at significantly lower rates than Visa or MasterCard previously charged. In the European Union, the Multilateral Interchange Fee (“MIF”) Regulation limits credit and debit interchange fees for payments to 0.3% and 0.2%, respectively. The MIF Regulation, which is expected to become effective in the second half of 2015, may significantly impact our pricing policy in the European Union. Any such material reduction in credit or debit card interchange rates in the United States or other markets could jeopardize our competitive position against traditional credit and debit card processors, although it would also lower our costs. Future changes to those regulations or to our business could potentially cause us to be treated as a payment card network, which could subject us to additional regulation and require us to change our business practices, which could reduce our revenue and adversely affect our business.

We are required by our processors to comply with payment card network operating rules, including special operating rules for payment service providers to merchants, and we have agreed to reimburse our processors for any fines they are assessed by payment card networks as a result of any rule violations by us or our merchants.

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The payment card networks set and interpret the card operating rules. Payment card networks have from time to time alleged that various aspects of our business model violate these operating rules. If such allegations are not resolved, they could result in material fines and penalties or require changes in our business that may be costly. The payment card networks could adopt new operating rules or interpret or re-interpret existing rules that we or our processors might find difficult or even impossible to follow, or costly to implement. As a result, we could lose our ability to give consumers the option of using payment cards to fund their payments or the choice of currency in which they would like their card to be charged. If we were unable to accept payment cards or were meaningfully limited in our ability to do so, our business would be harmed.

We and our payment card processors have implemented specific business processes for merchants in order to comply with operating rules for providing services to merchants, but any failure to comply could result in fines. We also could be, and in the past have been, subject to fines from payment card networks if we fail to detect that merchants are engaging in activities that are illegal or that are considered “high risk,” primarily the sale of certain types of digital content. For “high risk” merchants, we must either prevent such merchants from using our PayPal services or register such merchants with the payment card networks and conduct additional monitoring with respect to such merchants. Although the amount of these fines has not been material to date, any additional fines in the future could become material and could result in a termination of our ability to accept payment cards or require changes in our process for registering new customers. This would significantly damage our business. Our retail point-of-sale solution and PayPal Here product are also subject to payment card network operating rules, which may increase the costs of those products or otherwise negatively impact their deployment.

Failure to deal effectively with fraud, fictitious transactions, bad transactions, and negative customer experiences would increase our loss rate and harm our business, and could severely diminish merchant and consumer confidence in and use of our services.

We incur substantial losses due to claims from consumers that merchants have not performed or that their goods or services do not match the merchant’s description. We seek to recover such losses from the merchant, but may not be able to recover in full if the merchant is unwilling or unable to pay. We also incur losses from claims that the consumer did not authorize the purchase, from consumer fraud, from erroneous transmissions and from customers who have closed bank accounts or have insufficient funds in them to satisfy payments. In addition, if losses incurred by us related to payment card transactions become excessive, they could potentially result in our losing the right to accept payment cards for payment. In the event that we were unable to accept payment cards, the number of transactions processed through our PayPal services would decrease substantially and our business could be harmed. We are similarly subject to the risk of fraudulent activity associated with merchants, consumers of PayPal Credit products and third parties handling our user information. We have taken measures to detect and reduce the risk of fraud, but these measures need to be continually improved and may not be effective against new and continually evolving forms of fraud or in connection with new product offerings. If these measures do not succeed, our business could be harmed.

Any factors that reduce cross-border trade or make such trade more difficult could harm our business.

Cross-border trade is an important source of both revenue and profits for us. For the year ended December 31, 2014, approximately 24% of total payment volume (“TPV”) involved cross-border trade (i.e., transactions where the merchant and consumer were in different countries). Cross-border transactions generally provide higher revenues and operating income than similar transactions that take place within a single country or market. Cross-border trade also represents our primary (or in some cases, only) presence in certain important markets, such as China.

Cross-border trade is subject to, and may be impacted by, foreign exchange rate fluctuations. In addition, the potential interpretation and application of laws of multiple jurisdictions (e.g., the jurisdiction of the merchant and the consumer) are often extremely complicated in the context of cross-border trade. The interpretation and/or application of such laws could impose restrictions on cross-border trade. Any factors that increase the costs of cross-border trade or restrict, delay, or make cross-border trade more difficult or impractical would lower our revenues and profits and could harm our business.

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Our business is subject to extensive government regulation and oversight relating to the provision of financial services.

We are subject to various laws and regulations in the United States and other countries where we operate. Such laws and regulations include those governing banking, deposit taking, cross-border and domestic money transmission, foreign exchange, and payment services, such as payment processing and settlement services. The legal and regulatory requirements that apply to us vary in the markets where we operate and have increased over time as the geographical scope and complexity of our business and products have expanded. While we have a compliance program focused on compliance with applicable laws and regulations and have increased the resources allocated to that program in the last several years, we may still be subject to fines or other enforcement actions in one or more jurisdictions or be required to make changes to our business practices or compliance programs in the future. Non-compliance could also result in significant criminal and civil lawsuits, penalties, forfeiture of significant assets, or other enforcement actions. Costs associated with fines, enforcement actions, as well as reputational harm, changes in compliance requirements or limits on our ability to expand our product offerings could harm our business.

PayPal has obtained licenses to operate as a money transmitter (or its equivalent) in the United States, in the states where it is required, and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Our subsidiary, Venmo, is also licensed as a money transmitter in certain U.S. states. As licensed money transmitters, PayPal and Venmo are subject to restrictions with respect to their investment of customer funds, reporting requirements, bonding requirements and inspection by state regulatory agencies. Accordingly, we could be subject to liability and/or additional restrictions, forced to cease doing business with residents of certain states, forced to change our business practices or be required to obtain additional licenses or regulatory approvals that could impose substantial cost if we violate these laws or regulations.

While we currently allow our consumers with credit cards to send payments from approximately 200 markets, we allow customers in only approximately half of those markets (including the United States) to also receive payments, in some cases with significant restrictions on the manner in which customers can withdraw funds. These limitations may affect our ability to grow in these markets. Of the markets whose residents can use our PayPal services, approximately 30 markets are in member states of the European Union. We provide localized versions of our service to customers in the European Union through PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, SCA (“PayPal (Europe)”), our wholly-owned subsidiary that is licensed and subject to regulation as a bank in Luxembourg. Accordingly, PayPal (Europe) is subject to significant fines or other enforcement action if it violates the disclosure, reporting, anti-money-laundering, capitalization, funds management, corporate governance, privacy, information security, bank secrecy, taxation, sanctions, or other requirements imposed on Luxembourg banks. Any fines or other enforcement actions could adversely affect our business. In addition, European Union laws and regulations are typically subject to different and potentially inconsistent interpretations by the countries that are members of the European Union, which can make compliance more costly and operationally difficult to manage.

In many markets, such as China, much of Southeast Asia and South America, we serve our customers through PayPal Pte. Ltd., our wholly-owned subsidiary that is based in Singapore. PayPal Pte. Ltd. is supervised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a holder of a stored value facility and does not hold a remittance license. As a result, PayPal Pte. Ltd. is not able to offer remittance payments (including donations to charities) in Singapore, and can only offer payments for the purchase of goods and services. In many of the markets (other than Singapore) served by PayPal Pte. Ltd., it is not clear whether our Singapore-based service is subject only to Singapore law or, if it is subject to local laws, whether such local laws would require a payment processor like us to be licensed as a bank or financial institution or otherwise.

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PayPal Australia would be subject to significant fines or other enforcement action if it violates the disclosure, reporting, anti-money laundering, capitalization, privacy, corporate governance or other requirements imposed on Australian depository institutions.

We are also subject to regulation in other markets in which we do business and we have been and expect to continue to be required to apply for various licenses, certifications and regulatory approvals in a number of the countries where we have operations, such as Canada, Turkey, China, Mexico, Brazil and Hong Kong. There can be no assurance that PayPal will be able to obtain any such licenses. Even if PayPal were able to obtain such licenses, there are substantial costs and potential product changes involved in maintaining such licenses, and PayPal would be subject to fines or other enforcement action if it violates disclosure, reporting, anti-money laundering, capitalization, corporate governance or other requirements of such licenses. These factors could impose substantial additional costs and involve considerable delay to the development or provision of PayPal’s products in certain countries.

In many other countries it may not be clear whether we are required to be licensed as a bank, financial institution or otherwise. In such markets, we may rely on partnerships with local banks to process payments and conduct foreign exchange in local currency. Local regulators may use their power to slow or halt payments to local merchants conducted through our local banking partner. Such regulatory actions or the need to obtain licenses, certifications or other regulatory approvals could impose substantial costs and involve considerable delay to the provision or development of our PayPal services in a given market, or could require significant and costly operational changes or prevent us from providing any services in a given market.

We are subject to consumer protection laws and regulations.

We are subject to consumer protection laws and regulations in the United States and the other countries in which we operate. We are focused on compliance with these laws and regulations and have programs designed to comply with new and existing consumer protection requirements. However, any errors, failures, or delays in complying with such consumer protection laws and regulations could result in significant criminal and civil lawsuits, penalties, forfeiture of significant assets, or other enforcement actions, as well as reputational harm. Any new consumer protection laws and regulations (or changes to, or expansion of, the interpretation or application of existing laws and regulations) applicable to us could subject us to additional restrictions on our operations, additional compliance and licensure requirements, and increased regulatory scrutiny, which could force us to change our business practices or limit our ability to grow our business. Costs associated with fines or enforcement actions, changes in compliance requirements, or limitations on our ability to grow our business, could have an adverse effect on our financial results and harm our business.

Although there have been no definitive interpretations to date, we have taken actions as though our services are subject to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). Under such regulations, among other things, we are required to provide advance disclosure of changes to our services, to follow specified error resolution procedures and to reimburse consumers for losses from certain transactions not authorized by the consumer. Additionally, even technical violations of these laws can result in penalties of up to $1,000 for each non-compliant transaction or up to $500,000 per violation in any class action, and we could also be liable for plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees. In the second quarter of 2010, two putative class-action lawsuits (Devinda Fernando and Vadim Tsigel v. PayPal, Inc. and Moises Zepeda v. PayPal, Inc.) were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. These lawsuits contain allegations related to violations of aspects of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation E and violations of a previous settlement agreement related to Regulation E, and/or allege that we improperly held consumer funds or otherwise improperly limited consumer accounts. These lawsuits seek damages as well as changes to our business practices, among other remedies. A determination that there have been violations of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, Regulation E or violations of other laws relating to our business practices could expose us to significant liability. Any changes to our business practices resulting from these lawsuits could require us to incur significant costs and to expend substantial resources, which could delay other planned product launches or improvements and further harm our business.

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The financial services sector has been increasingly subject to regulatory scrutiny. In January 2012, the CFPB finalized rules under Regulation E, mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which required us, beginning in October 2013, to provide additional disclosures, error resolution rights, and cancellation rights to U.S. consumers who make international remittance payments. In November 2014, the CFPB proposed a new prepaid account rule that would apply to prepaid cards and mobile wallets, including PayPal accounts. In December 2014, we became subject to CFPB supervision and examination pursuant to a new regulation that allows the CFPB to supervise all companies, including PayPal, that provide more than one million international money transfers per year. Under the proposal, CFPB examiners are now able to examine us for compliance with the remittance transfer rule and other laws and regulations. For other matters relating to regulation by the CFPB, please see the section of this information statement entitled “Business—Legal and Regulatory Proceedings.”

PayPal (Europe) implements its localized services in European Union countries through a “passport” notification process through the Luxembourg regulator to regulators in other European Union member states pursuant to European Union Directives, and has completed the “passport” notification process in all European Union member countries other than Croatia. The regulators in these countries could notify PayPal (Europe) of local consumer protection laws that apply to its business, in addition to Luxembourg consumer protection law, and could also seek to persuade the Luxembourg regulator to order PayPal (Europe) to conduct its activities in the local country through a branch office. These or similar actions by these regulators could increase the cost of, or delay, our plans for expanding our business in European Union countries. In addition, the countries that are members of the European Union may each have different and potentially inconsistent interpretations of regulations implementing the European Union Payment Services Directive, which could make compliance more costly and operationally difficult to manage. The European Commission has proposed revisions to the Payments Services and Anti-Money Laundering Directives, which could further make compliance more costly and operationally difficult to manage. Finally, if the assets of PayPal (Europe) exceed certain thresholds, PayPal (Europe) could become regulated by the European Central Bank rather than Luxembourg, which would likely increase its costs.

We are subject to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws and regulations.

We are subject to various anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws and regulations around the world that prohibit, among other things, our involvement in transferring the proceeds of criminal activities. We have programs designed to comply with new and existing legal and regulatory requirements. However, any errors, failures, or delays in complying with federal, state or foreign anti-money laundering or counter-terrorist financing laws and regulations could result in significant criminal and civil lawsuits, penalties, forfeiture of significant assets, or other enforcement actions, as well as reputational harm. For a discussion of our dealings with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), please see the section of this information statement entitled “Business—Legal and Regulatory Proceedings.”

U.S. regulators have increased their scrutiny of compliance with these obligations, which may require us to further revise or expand our compliance program, including the procedures we use to verify the identity of our customers and to monitor international and domestic transactions. Several countries in which we are regulated have also implemented new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws and regulations, and we have had to make changes to our compliance program in response. Regulators regularly re-examine the transaction volume thresholds at which we must obtain and keep applicable records or verify identities of customers and any change in such thresholds could result in greater costs for compliance. Costs associated with fines or enforcement actions, changes in compliance requirements, or limitations on our ability to grow our business could harm our business and any new requirements or changes to existing requirements could impose significant costs, result in delays to planned product improvements, make it more difficult for new customers to join our network and reduce the attractiveness of our products and services.

Regulation in the areas of privacy and protection of user data could harm our business.

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especially financial information, is regulated by multiple laws. User data protection laws may be interpreted and applied inconsistently from country to country. In many cases, these laws apply not only to third-party transactions, but also to transfers of information between or among ourselves, our subsidiaries, and other parties with which we have commercial relations. These laws continue to develop in ways we cannot predict and that may harm our business.

Regulatory scrutiny of privacy, user data protection, use of data and data collection is increasing on a global basis. We are subject to a number of privacy and similar laws and regulations in the countries in which we operate and these laws and regulations will likely continue to evolve over time, both through regulatory and legislative action and judicial decisions. Some of these laws impose requirements that are inconsistent with one another, yet regulators may claim that both apply. Complying with these varying national requirements could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices in a manner adverse to our business and violations of privacy-related laws can result in significant penalties. In addition, compliance with these laws may restrict our ability to provide services to our customers that they may find to be valuable. A determination that there have been violations of laws relating to our practices under communications-based laws could expose us to significant damage awards, fines and other penalties that could, individually or in the aggregate, materially harm our business. In particular, because of the enormous number of texts, emails and other communications we send to our customers, communications laws that provide a specified monetary damage award or fine for each violation (such as those described below) could result in particularly large awards or fines.

For example, the Federal Communications Commission amended certain of its regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, in 2012 and 2013 in a manner that could increase our exposure to liability for certain types of telephonic communication with customers, including but not limited to text messages to mobile phones. Under the TCPA, plaintiffs may seek actual monetary loss or statutory damages of $500 per violation, whichever is greater, and courts may treble the damage award for willful or knowing violations. We are regularly subject to class-action lawsuits, as well as individual lawsuits, containing allegations that our business violated the TCPA. We recently settled Murray v. Bill Me Later (filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in June 2012), which alleged that Bill Me Later made calls featuring artificial or prerecorded voices without prior consent. These lawsuits, and other private lawsuits not currently alleged as class actions, seek damages (including statutory damages) and injunctive relief, among other remedies. Given the enormous number of communications we send to our customers, a determination that there have been violations of the TCPA or other communications-based statutes could expose us to significant damage awards that could, individually or in the aggregate, materially harm our business.

We post on our websites our privacy policies and practices concerning the collection, use and disclosure of user data. Any failure, or perceived failure, by us to comply with our posted privacy policies or with any regulatory requirements or orders or other federal, state or international privacy or consumer protection-related laws and regulations could result in proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others (e.g., class action privacy litigation), subject us to significant penalties and negative publicity, require us to change our business practices, increase our costs and adversely affect our business. Data collection, privacy and security have become the subject of increasing public concern. If Internet and mobile customers were to reduce their use of our websites, mobile platforms, products, and services as a result of these concerns, our business could be harmed. As noted above, we are also subject to the possibility of security breaches, which themselves may result in a violation of these laws.

PayPal is not a bank or licensed lender in the United States and relies upon third parties to make loans and provide the other products critical to our business.

As PayPal is neither a chartered financial institution nor licensed to make loans in any state, we must rely on a bank or licensed lender to offer the PayPal Credit products in the United States. Currently, when a U.S. consumer makes a purchase using a PayPal Credit product, a chartered financial institution extends credit to the consumer, funds the extension of credit at the point of sale, and advances funds to the merchant. We

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subsequently purchase and retain most of the receivables related to the consumer loans made by the chartered financial institution and, as a result, bear most of the risk of loss in the event of loan defaults. Although the chartered financial institution continues to own each of the consumer accounts, we own most of the related consumer loan receivables, and we are also responsible for servicing functions related to the consumer account.

Comenity Capital Bank and WebBank, which are both industrial banks chartered by the State of Utah, currently issue PayPal Credit products in the United States, with Comenity Capital Bank originating the majority of new loans. As part of this arrangement, WebBank has agreed to take ownership of (and originate loans with respect to) all consumer accounts in the event of a termination or interruption in Comenity Capital Bank’s ability to lend. Nevertheless, any termination or interruption of WebBank’s or Comenity Capital Bank’s ability to lend could result in the inability to originate any new PayPal Credit products, which would require us either to reach a similar arrangement with another chartered financial institution, which, if possible at all, may not be available on favorable terms, or to obtain our own bank charter, which would be a time-consuming and costly process and would subject us to a number of additional laws and regulations, compliance with which would be burdensome.

The PayPal Credit products also rely on third-party merchant processors and payment gateways to process transactions. For the year ended December 31, 2014, approximately 16% of all transaction volume by dollar amount through the PayPal Credit products was settled through the facilities of a single vendor. Any disruption to these third-party payment processing and gateway services would adversely affect the PayPal Credit products.

Our credit products expose us to additional risks.

Our PayPal Credit products are offered to a wide range of consumers, and the financial success of these products depends on our ability and the ability of the banks issuing the PayPal Credit products to manage the credit risk related to these products. The lenders extend credit at the point of sale using our proprietary segmentation and credit scoring algorithms and other analytical techniques designed to analyze the credit risk of specific consumers based on their past purchasing and payment history as well as their credit scores. These algorithms and techniques may not accurately predict the creditworthiness of a consumer due to inaccurate assumptions about a particular consumer or the economic environment, among other factors. The accuracy of the predictions and the ability of the lenders and our ability to manage credit risk related to the PayPal Credit products may also be affected by legal or regulatory changes (e.g., bankruptcy laws and minimum payment regulations), competitors’ actions, changes in consumer behavior, and other factors. A lender may incorrectly interpret the data produced by these algorithms in setting its credit policies, which may impact the financial performance of the PayPal Credit products. In addition, economic and financial conditions may affect consumer confidence levels and reduce consumers’ ability or willingness to use credit, including the credit extended by a lender to PayPal Credit account holders who use the PayPal Credit products, which could harm our business. As of December 31, 2014, approximately $20.2 billion of unused credit was available to PayPal Credit account holders. While this amount represents the total unused credit available, we have not experienced, and do not anticipate, that all of our PayPal Credit account holders will access their entire available credit at any given point in time. In addition, the individual lines of credit that make up this unused credit are subject to periodic review and termination by the chartered financial institutions that are the issuer of PayPal Credit products based on, among other things, account usage and consumer creditworthiness.

Over the past several years, the volume of credit extended by the financial institutions issuing the PayPal Credit products has increased. In the United States, we purchase the receivables relating to these consumer loans extended by the issuing banks, and therefore bear the risk of loss in the event of loan defaults. Like other businesses with significant exposure to losses from consumer credit, we face the risk that PayPal Credit account holders will default on their payment obligations, making the receivables uncollectible and creating the risk of potential charge-offs. The rate at which receivables were charged off as uncollectible, or the net charge-off rate, was approximately 5.67% for the year ended December 31, 2014. The non-payment rate among PayPal Credit account holders may increase due to, among other things, changes to underwriting standards by us and the financial institutions issuing the PayPal Credit products, worsening economic conditions, such as a recession or

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greater austerity in various countries, and high unemployment rates. Consumers who miss payments often fail to repay their loans, and consumers who file for protection under the bankruptcy laws generally do not repay their loans.

We have entered into an agreement with Synchrony (formerly GE Capital Retail Bank) pursuant to which we, one of our affiliates, or a third party partner of ours, will purchase, subject to certain conditions, a dual-branded retail credit card portfolio from Synchrony. We will ultimately own the related consumer loan receivables. This transaction is currently expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016, although there can be no assurance that this transaction will close on terms currently contemplated, or at all. If this transaction is consummated, it will increase the risks relating to our ownership of consumer loan receivables.

In 2013, we began a program, working with WebBank, for WebBank to offer working capital financing to selected merchants in the United States, and for us to purchase the related receivables. Similar programs are also available in the United Kingdom and Australia. Loans to merchants present risks similar to those discussed above associated with the PayPal Credit products.

We purchase receivables related to PayPal Credit products and other credit accounts. If we are unable to fund our purchase of these receivables adequately or in a cost-effective manner, or if we are unable to efficiently manage the cash resources utilized to purchase these receivables, our business could be harmed.

New and proposed laws and regulations could harm our business.

We are subject to laws and regulations affecting our domestic and international operations in a number of other areas, including data privacy requirements, intellectual property ownership and infringement, tax, anti-competition, export requirements, anti-corruption, labor, advertising, billing, promotions, quality of services, environmental, and health and safety regulations. It is not always clear how these laws and regulations apply to our business. Many of these laws and regulations were adopted prior to the advent of the Internet, mobile, and related technologies and, as a result, do not contemplate or address the unique issues of the Internet, mobile and related technologies. Many of these laws, including some of those that do reference the Internet, mobile and related technologies are subject to interpretation by the courts on an ongoing basis and, as a result, their applicability and scope remain uncertain.

Compliance with these laws, regulations, and similar requirements may be onerous and expensive, and variances and inconsistencies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction may further increase the cost of compliance and doing business. For example, new or proposed laws in certain countries require us to maintain separate servers in those countries so that all personal data of citizens of that country are maintained locally. Any such costs, which may rise in the future as a result of changes in these laws and regulations or in their interpretation, could individually or in the aggregate make our products and services less attractive to our customers, delay the introduction of new products or services in one or more regions, or cause us to change or limit our business practices. We have implemented policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, but there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate such laws and regulations or our policies and procedures.

Financial and political events have increased the level of regulatory scrutiny on large companies, and regulatory agencies may view matters or interpret laws and regulations differently than they have in the past and in a manner adverse to our business. Our success and increased visibility have driven existing businesses that perceive us to be a threat to their businesses to raise concerns about our business models to policymakers and regulators. These businesses and their trade association groups employ significant resources in their efforts to shape the legal and regulatory regimes in countries where we have significant operations. They may employ these resources in an effort to change the legal and regulatory regimes in ways intended to reduce the effectiveness of our business and the ability of customers to use our products and services.

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As we expand and localize our international activities, we are increasingly becoming obligated to comply with the laws of the countries or markets in which we operate. In addition, because our services are accessible worldwide and we facilitate sales of goods and provide services to customers worldwide, one or more jurisdictions may claim that we or our customers are required to comply with their laws. Laws regulating Internet, mobile and related technologies outside of the United States are generally less favorable to us than those in the United States. Compliance may be more costly or may require us to change our business practices or restrict our services, and the imposition of any regulations on us or our customers could harm our business. In addition, we may be subject to multiple overlapping legal or regulatory regimes that impose conflicting requirements on us (e.g., in cross-border trade). Our alleged failure to comply with foreign laws could subject us to penalties ranging from criminal prosecution to significant fines to bans on our services, in addition to the significant costs we may incur in defending against such actions.

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, U.S. federal lawmakers enacted the Dodd-Frank Act overhauling the federal government’s oversight of consumer financial products and systemic risk in the U.S. financial system. The general effect of the financial reform law has been, and we expect will continue to be, to require us to make additional disclosures to our consumers and to impose new restrictions and requirements on certain of our activities, resulting in new compliance requirements and obligations that could increase our costs, may result in increased litigation and the need to make expensive product changes, and could otherwise harm our business.

Substantial and increasingly intense competition worldwide in the global payments industry may harm our business.

The global payments industry is highly competitive. We compete against businesses in varied industries, many of whom are larger than we are, have a dominant and secure position in other industries, and offer other goods and services to consumers and merchants which we do not offer. As online and offline commerce increasingly converge, the pace of change, innovation and disruption is increasing. The global payments industry is rapidly changing, highly innovative and increasingly subject to regulatory scrutiny, which may negatively affect the competitive landscape. We compete against all forms of payments, including:

We also face competition and potential competition from:

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Some of these payment providers have greater customer bases, volume, scale, and market share than we do, which may provide significant competitive advantages. Some of these competitors may also be subject to less burdensome licensing, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and other regulatory requirements. They may devote greater resources to the development, promotion, and sale of products and services, and they may offer lower prices or more effectively introduce their own innovative programs and services that adversely impact our growth. We also expect new entrants to offer competitive products and services. In addition, some merchants provide such services to themselves. Competing services tied to established banks and other financial institutions may offer greater liquidity and engender greater consumer confidence in the safety and efficacy of their services. In addition, in certain countries, such as Germany, Netherlands and Australia, electronic funds transfer is a leading method of payment for both online and offline transactions. As in the United States, established banks and other financial institutions that do not currently offer online payments could quickly and easily develop such a service.

We compete primarily on the basis of the following:

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If we are not able to differentiate our business from those of our competitors, drive value for our customers, and/or effectively align our resources with our goals and objectives, we may not be able to compete effectively against our competitors. Our failure to compete effectively against any of the foregoing competitive threats could materially and adversely harm our business.

We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.

We have significant operations internationally that are denominated in foreign currencies, primarily the Euro, British Pound, and Australian Dollar, subjecting us to foreign currency risk. The strengthening or weakening of the U.S. dollar versus the Euro, British Pound, and Australian Dollar impacts the translation of our net revenues generated in these foreign currencies into the U.S. dollar. In 2014, foreign currency movements relative to the U.S. dollar negatively impacted net revenues by approximately $25 million (inclusive of a $36 million negative impact from hedging activities). In 2013, foreign currency movements relative to the U.S. dollar negatively impacted net revenues by approximately $8 million (inclusive of a $4 million negative impact from hedging activities). Additionally, in connection with our services in multiple currencies, we set our foreign exchange rates twice per day, and may face financial exposure if we incorrectly set our foreign exchange rates or as a result of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the times that we set our foreign exchange rates. Given that we also hold some corporate and customer funds in non-U.S. currencies, our financial results are affected by the translation of these non-U.S. currencies into U.S. dollars. While we regularly enter into transactions to hedge portions of our foreign currency translation exposure, it is impossible to predict or eliminate the effects of this exposure. Fluctuations in foreign exchange rates could significantly impact our financial results.

We are exposed to fluctuations in interest rates.

We are exposed to interest rate risk from our investment portfolio and from interest-rate sensitive assets underlying the customer balances we hold on our combined balance sheet as customer accounts. As of December 31, 2014, approximately 97% of our total cash and investment portfolio was held in cash and cash equivalents. The assets underlying our customer balances we hold on our combined balance sheet as customer accounts are maintained in interest and non-interest bearing bank deposits, time deposits, and U.S. and foreign government and agency securities. We seek to preserve principal while holding eligible liquid assets, as defined by the regulatory requirements and commercial law in the jurisdictions in which we operate, equal to at least 100% of the aggregate amount of all customer balances. We do not pay interest on amounts due to customers. A 100 basis point adverse change in interest rates would not have a material impact on the Company’s financial assets or liabilities at December 31, 2014 and 2013.

Also, fluctuations in interest rates may adversely impact our customers’ spending levels and ability and willingness to pay outstanding amounts owed to us. Higher interest rates often lead to higher payment obligations by customers to us and other lenders under mortgage, credit card and other consumer loans, which may reduce our customers’ ability to remain current on their obligations to us and therefore lead to increased delinquencies, charge-offs and allowance for loan and interest receivable which could have an adverse effect on our net earnings.

In addition, we may enter into a new revolving credit facility that could bear interest at a floating rate. As a result, we will be exposed to fluctuations in interest rates to the extent of our borrowings under the revolving credit facility.

Changes to our buyer and seller protection programs could increase our loss rate.

Our buyer and seller protection programs protect merchants and consumers from fraudulent transactions. In addition, consumers who pay through PayPal may have reimbursement rights from their payment card company or bank, which in turn will seek recovery from us. The risk of losses from our buyer and seller protection programs are specific to individual buyers, sellers and transactions, and may also be impacted by regional

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variations to these programs and modifications to these programs resulting from changes in regulatory requirements or changes that we decide to implement. For the periods presented in the combined financial statements, payments under these programs have ranged between 0.08% and 0.12% of TPV on an annual basis. Historical trends may not be an indication of future payments under these programs. Increases in our loss rate resulting from changes to our buyer and seller protection programs could harm our business.

Our international operations are subject to increased risks, which could harm our business.

Our international operations, especially in the United Kingdom, Germany (and the other countries of the European Union) and China, have generated a majority of our net revenues in recent years. In addition to uncertainty about our ability to generate revenues from our foreign operations and expand into international markets, there are risks inherent in doing business internationally, including:

Violations of the complex foreign and U.S. laws and regulations that apply to our international operations may result in fines, criminal actions, or sanctions against us, our officers, or our employees; prohibitions on the conduct of our business; and damage to our reputation. Although we have implemented policies and procedures designed to promote compliance with these laws, there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, or agents will not violate our policies. These risks are inherent in our international operations and expansion and may increase our costs of doing business internationally and could harm our business.

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Use of our payments services for illegal purposes could harm our business.

Our payment system is susceptible to potentially illegal or improper uses, including terrorist financing, illegal online gambling, fraudulent sales of goods or services, illicit sales of prescription medications or controlled substances, piracy of software, movies, music, and other copyrighted or trademarked goods, money laundering, bank fraud, child pornography trafficking, prohibited sales of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products, online securities fraud. There has been an increased focus by intellectual property rights owners and government officials on the role that payments systems play in the sale of, and payment for, pirated digital goods on the Internet, primarily through file sharing services. Changes in law have increased the penalties for intermediaries providing payment services for certain illegal activities and additional payments-related proposals are under active consideration by government authorities. Intellectual property rights owners may seek to bring legal action against providers of payments solutions, such as PayPal, and other entities that are peripherally involved in the sale of infringing items. Rights owners have also increasingly gone into U.S. courts and obtained injunctions requiring us to cease handling transactions for named websites and third parties (in most cases located outside the United States) and to hold the funds of such parties pending judicial resolution of the rights owners’ claims, which disrupts the relationship between such parties and us.

Any resulting claims could damage our reputation and any resulting liabilities, loss of transaction volume or increased costs could harm our business.

We are subject to risks associated with information disseminated through our services.

Online services companies may be subject to claims relating to information disseminated through their services, including claims alleging defamation, libel, breach of contract, invasion of privacy, negligence, copyright or trademark infringement, among other things. The laws relating to the liability of online services companies for information disseminated through their services are subject to frequent challenges both in the United States and foreign jurisdictions. Any liabilities incurred as a result of these matters could require us to incur additional costs and harm our reputation and our business.

Our potential liability to third parties for the customer-provided content on our sites, particularly in jurisdictions outside the United States where laws governing Internet transactions are unsettled, may increase. If we become liable for information provided by our customers and carried on our service in any jurisdiction in which we operate, we could be directly harmed and we may be forced to implement new measures to reduce our exposure to this liability, including expending substantial resources or discontinuing certain service offerings, which could harm our business.

Our failure to manage the assets underlying our customer funds properly could harm our business.

Our ability to manage and account accurately for the assets underlying our customer funds requires a high level of internal controls. As our business continues to grow and we expand our product offerings, we must continue to strengthen our internal controls accordingly. Our success requires significant public confidence in our ability to handle large and growing transaction volumes and amounts of customer funds. Any failure to maintain the necessary controls or to manage the assets underlying our customer funds accurately could severely diminish customer use of our products and/or result in penalties and fines, which could harm our business.

We are subject to regulatory activity and antitrust litigation under competition laws.

We are subject to scrutiny by various government agencies under U.S. and foreign laws and regulations, including competition laws. Some jurisdictions also provide private rights of action for competitors or consumers to assert claims of anti-competitive conduct. Other companies and government agencies have in the past and may in the future allege that our actions violate the antitrust or competition laws of the United States, individual states, the European Commission or other countries, or otherwise constitute unfair competition. An increasing

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number of governments are regulating competition law activities, including increased scrutiny in large markets such as China. Our business partnerships or agreements or arrangements with customers or other companies could give rise to regulatory action or antitrust litigation. Some regulators, particularly those outside of the United States, may perceive our business to be used so broadly that otherwise uncontroversial business practices could be deemed anticompetitive. Any claims or investigations, even if without foundation, may be very expensive to defend or respond to, involve negative publicity and substantial diversion of management time and effort and could result in significant judgments against us or require us to change our business practices.

We are subject to patent litigation.

We have repeatedly been sued for allegedly infringing other parties’ patents. We are a defendant in a number of patent lawsuits and have been notified of several other potential patent disputes. We expect that we will increasingly be subject to patent infringement claims because, among other reasons:

Such claims may be brought directly against us and/or against our customers whom we may indemnify either because we are contractually obligated to do so or we choose to do so as a business matter. We believe that an increasing number of these claims against us and other technology companies have been, and continue to be, initiated by third parties whose sole or primary business is to assert such claims. In addition, we have seen significant patent disputes between operating companies in some technology industries. Patent claims, whether meritorious or not, are time-consuming and costly to defend and resolve, and could require us to make expensive changes in our methods of doing business, enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements, make substantial payments to satisfy adverse judgments or settle claims or proceedings, or cease conducting certain operations, which would harm our business.

We may be unable to adequately protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, or third parties may allege that we are infringing their intellectual property rights.

We believe the protection of our intellectual property, including our trademarks, patents, copyrights, domain names, trade dress, and trade secrets, is critical to our success. We seek to protect our intellectual property rights by relying on applicable laws and regulations in the United States and internationally, as well as a variety of administrative procedures. We also rely on contractual restrictions to protect our proprietary rights when offering or procuring products and services, including confidentiality and invention assignment agreements entered into with our employees and contractors and confidentiality agreements with parties with whom we conduct business.

However, effective intellectual property protection may not be available in every country in which our products and services are made available, and contractual arrangements and other steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property may not prevent third parties from infringing or misappropriating our intellectual property or deter independent development of equivalent or superior intellectual property rights by others. Trademark, copyright, patent, domain name, trade dress and trade secret protection is very expensive to maintain and may require litigation. We must protect our intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights in an increasing number of jurisdictions, a process that is expensive and time consuming and may not be successful in every jurisdiction. Also, we may not be able to discover or determine the extent of any unauthorized use of our proprietary rights. We have licensed in the past, and expect to license in the future, certain of our proprietary rights, such as trademarks or copyrighted material, to others. These licensees may take actions that diminish the value of our proprietary rights or harm our reputation. Any failure to adequately protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, or significant costs incurred in doing so, could materially harm our business.

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As the number of products in the software industry increases and the functionality of these products further overlap, and as we acquire technology through acquisitions or licenses, we may become increasingly subject to infringement claims, including patent, copyright, and trademark infringement claims. Litigation may be necessary to determine the validity and scope of the patent and other intellectual property rights of others. The ultimate outcome of any allegation is uncertain and, regardless of the outcome, any such claim, with or without merit, may be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, divert management’s time and attention from our business, require us to stop selling, delay shipping, or redesign our products, or require us to pay substantial amounts to satisfy judgments or settle claims or lawsuits or to pay substantial royalty or licensing fees, or to satisfy indemnification obligations that we have with some of our customers. Our failure to obtain necessary license or other rights, or litigation or claims arising out of intellectual property matters, may harm our business.

We are regularly subject to general litigation, regulatory disputes, and government inquiries.

We are regularly subject to claims, lawsuits (including class actions and individual lawsuits), government investigations, and other proceedings involving competition and antitrust, intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, accessibility claims, securities, tax, labor and employment, commercial disputes, content generated by our customers, services and other matters. In particular, our business faces ongoing consumer protection and intellectual property litigation, as discussed above. The number and significance of these disputes and inquiries have increased as our company has grown larger, our business has expanded in scope and geographic reach, and our products and services have increased in complexity. In addition, some of the laws and regulations affecting Internet and mobile commerce and consumer credit are subject to ongoing interpretation by the courts and governmental authorities, and the resulting uncertainty in the scope and application of these laws and regulations increases the risk that we will be subject to private claims and governmental actions alleging violations of those laws and regulations.

The outcome and impact of such claims, lawsuits, government investigations, and proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty. Regardless of the outcome, such investigations and proceedings can have an adverse impact on us because of legal costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. Determining reserves for our pending litigation is a complex, fact-intensive process that is subject to judgment calls. It is possible that a resolution of one or more such proceedings could require us to make substantial payments to satisfy judgments, fines or penalties or to settle claims or proceedings, any of which could materially adversely affect our business. These proceedings could also result in reputational harm, criminal sanctions, consent decrees, or orders preventing us from offering certain products, or services, or requiring a change in our business practices in costly ways, or requiring development of non-infringing or otherwise altered products or technologies. Any of these consequences could materially adversely affect our business.

We may have exposure to greater than anticipated tax liabilities.

The determination of our worldwide provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities requires estimation and significant judgment, and there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Like many other multinational corporations, we are subject to tax in multiple U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions and have structured our operations to reduce our effective tax rate. Our determination of our tax liability is always subject to audit and review by applicable domestic and foreign tax authorities, and we are currently undergoing a number of investigations, audits and reviews by taxing authorities throughout the world, including with respect to our tax structure. Any adverse outcome of any such audit or review could have a negative effect on our business and the ultimate tax outcome may differ from the amounts recorded in our financial statements and may materially affect our financial results in the period or periods for which such determination is made. While we have established reserves based on assumptions and estimates that we believe are reasonable to cover such eventualities, these reserves may prove to be insufficient.

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jurisdictions that have higher statutory tax rates, by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, as a result of gains on our foreign exchange risk management program, or changes in tax laws, regulations, or accounting principles, as well as certain discrete items.

In light of continuing fiscal challenges in certain U.S. states and in many countries in Europe, various levels of government are increasingly focused on tax reform and other legislative action to increase tax revenue, including corporate income taxes. For example, the economic downturn reduced tax revenues for United States federal and state governments, and a number of proposals to increase taxes from corporate entities have been implemented or are being considered at various levels of government. These include a number of proposals to modify the U.S. federal income tax laws applicable to companies, like ours, operating in multiple U.S. and foreign jurisdictions which, if enacted, could materially increase our effective tax rate. A number of U.S. states have attempted to increase corporate tax revenues by taking an expansive view of corporate presence to attempt to impose corporate income taxes and other direct business taxes on companies that have no physical presence in their state, and taxing authorities in foreign jurisdictions may take similar actions. Many U.S. states are also altering their apportionment formulas to increase the amount of taxable income or loss attributable to their state from certain out-of-state businesses. Similarly, in Europe, and elsewhere in the world, there are various tax reform efforts underway designed to ensure that corporate entities are taxed on a larger percentage of their earnings. If more taxing authorities are successful in applying direct taxes to Internet companies that do not have a physical presence in their respective jurisdictions, this could increase our effective tax rate.

We and our merchants may be subject to sales reporting and record-keeping obligations.

One or more states or the federal government or foreign countries may seek to impose reporting or record-keeping obligations on companies that engage in or facilitate ecommerce. Such an obligation could be imposed by legislation intended to improve tax compliance (and legislation to such effect has been contemplated by several states and a number of foreign jurisdictions) or if one of our companies was ever deemed to be the legal agent of our merchants by a jurisdiction in which it operates. We are required to report to the Internal Revenue Service, (“IRS”), on customers subject to U.S. income tax who receive more than $20,000 in payments and more than 200 payments in a calendar year. As a result, we are required to request tax identification numbers from certain payees, track payments by tax identification number and, under certain conditions, withhold a portion of payments and forward such withholding to the IRS. We have modified our software to meet these requirements and expect increased operational costs and changes to our customer experience in connection with complying with these reporting obligations. The IRS regulations also require us to collect a certification of non-U.S. taxpayer status from certain international merchants. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which took effect at the start of 2013, is likely to require an increase in the number of non-U.S. customers from whom we must obtain a similar certification, and to increase the compliance burdens on us. Any failure by us to meet these new requirements could result in substantial monetary penalties and other sanctions and could harm our business.

Acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments could result in operating difficulties and could harm our business.

We have acquired a significant number of businesses of varying size and scope, technologies, services, and products. We also expect to continue to evaluate and consider a wide array of potential strategic transactions as part of our overall business strategy, including business combinations, acquisitions, and dispositions of businesses, technologies, services, products, and other assets, as well as strategic investments and joint ventures.

These transactions may involve significant challenges and risks, including:

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At any given time we may be engaged in discussions or negotiations with respect to one or more of these types of transactions and any of these transactions could be material to our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, it may take us longer than expected to fully realize the anticipated benefits of these transactions, and those benefits may ultimately be smaller than anticipated or may not be realized at all, which could adversely affect our business and operating results. Any acquisitions or dispositions may also require us to issue additional equity securities, spend our cash, or incur debt (and increased interest expense), liabilities, and amortization expenses related to intangible assets or write-offs of goodwill, which could adversely affect our results of operations and dilute the economic and voting rights of our stockholders.

In addition, we may make certain investments, including through joint ventures, in which we have a minority equity interest and/or lack management and operational control. Under such circumstances, the controlling joint venture partner in a joint venture investment may have business interests, strategies or goals that are inconsistent with ours, and business decisions or other actions or omissions of the controlling investor, joint venture partner or joint venture company may result in harm to our reputation or adversely affect the value of our investment in the investment or joint venture.

Problems with or price increases by third parties who provide services to us or to our customers could harm our business.

A number of third parties provide services to us or to our customers. We are dependent on caching services that make our sites load faster, the processing companies and banks that link us to the payment card, and bank clearing networks to process transactions, among others. We are subject to, among other things, increases in

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interchange fees and assessments that payment card networks such as Visa and MasterCard charge for each transaction using one of their cards (which our payment card processors have the right to pass on to us), as well as changes in payment card network operating rules, including special operating rules for Internet payment services providers, such as PayPal. Similarly, we rely on unaffiliated lenders to make the consumer and other loans originated through the PayPal Credit products and also rely heavily on third parties to operate our services, including merchant processors and payment gateways to process transactions and third parties that provide loan receivable tracking and customer statements processing. Financial or regulatory issues, labor issues (e.g., strikes, lockouts, or work stoppages), or other problems that prevent these companies from providing services to us or our customers could harm our business.

Price increases by, or service terminations, disruptions or interruptions at, companies that provide services to us and our customers and clients could also make it more difficult for our merchants to complete transactions, thereby harming our business. Some third parties who provide services to us may have or gain market power and be able to increase their prices to us without competitive constraint.

We have outsourced certain functions to third-party providers, including some customer support and product development functions, which are critical to our operations. If our service providers do not perform satisfactorily, our operations could be disrupted, which could result in customer dissatisfaction and could harm our business.

There can be no assurance that third parties who provide services directly to us or our customers will continue to do so on acceptable terms, or at all. If any third parties were to stop providing services to us or our merchants on acceptable terms, including as a result of bankruptcy, we may be unable to procure alternatives from other third parties in a timely and efficient manner and on acceptable terms, or at all.

Our developer platforms, which are open to merchants and third-party developers, subject us to additional risks.

We provide third-party developers with access to application programming interfaces, software development kits and other tools designed to allow them to produce applications for use, with a particular focus on mobile applications. There can be no assurance that merchants or third-party developers will develop and maintain applications and services on our open platforms on a timely basis or at all, and a number of factors could cause such third-party developers to curtail or stop development for our platforms. In addition, our business is subject to many regulatory restrictions. It is possible that merchants and third-party developers who utilize our development platforms or tools could violate these regulatory restrictions and we may be held responsible for such violations, which could harm our business.

Our retail point of sale solutions expose us to additional risks.

We have announced several retail point of sale solutions, which enable merchants to accept payments using a payments card reader attached to, or otherwise communicating with, a mobile device or to scan payment cards and codes using the mobile device’s embedded camera and which will enable consumers to use their mobile devices to pay hands-free. To the extent that we continue to expand our product and service offerings at the retail point of sale, we will face additional risks, including:

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Unless we are able to successfully manage these risks, including driving adoption of, and significant volume through, our retail point of sale solutions over time, our business may be harmed.

Our success largely depends on key personnel. Because competition for our key employees is intense, we may not be able to attract, retain, and develop the highly skilled employees we need to support our business. The loss of senior management or other key personnel could harm our business.

Our future performance depends substantially on the continued services of our senior management and other key personnel, including key engineering and product development personnel, and our ability to attract, retain, and motivate key personnel. Competition for key personnel is intense, especially in the Silicon Valley where our corporate headquarters are located, and we may be unable to successfully attract, integrate, or retain sufficiently qualified key personnel. In making employment decisions, particularly in the Internet and high-technology industries, job candidates often consider the value of the equity awards they would receive in connection with their employment and fluctuations in our stock price may make it more difficult to attract, retain, and motivate employees. In addition, we do not have long-term employment agreements with any of our key personnel and do not maintain any “key person” life insurance policies. The loss of the services of any of our senior management or other key personnel, or our inability to attract highly qualified senior management and other key personnel, could harm our business.

Risks Related to the Separation

The combined post-separation value of eBay and PayPal common stock may not equal or exceed the pre-separation value of eBay common stock.

As a result of the distribution, eBay expects the trading price of eBay common stock immediately following the distribution to be lower than the “regular-way” trading price of such common stock immediately prior to the distribution because the trading price will no longer reflect the value of the Payments business held by PayPal. The aggregate market value of the eBay common stock and the PayPal common stock following the separation may be higher or lower than the market value of eBay common stock immediately prior to the separation.

We may not achieve some or all of the expected benefits of the separation, and the separation could harm our business.

We may not be able to achieve the full strategic and financial benefits expected to result from the separation, or such benefits may be delayed or not occur at all. The separation and distribution is expected to provide the following benefits, among others: enhanced strategic and management focus; better ability to form strategic partnerships and relationships; faster decision-making; more efficient allocation of capital; alignment of incentives with performance objectives; direct access to the capital markets; and a distinct investment identity. For more information regarding the reasons for the separation, please refer to “The Separation and Distribution.”

We may not achieve these and other anticipated benefits for a variety of reasons, including, among others:

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If we fail to achieve some or all of the benefits expected to result from the separation, or if such benefits are delayed, our business could be harmed.

If the distribution, together with certain related transactions, does not qualify as a transaction that is generally tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”), eBay, PayPal and eBay stockholders could be subject to significant tax liabilities and, in certain circumstances, we could be required to indemnify eBay for material taxes pursuant to indemnification obligations under the tax matters agreement.

A condition to the distribution is the receipt by eBay of one or more opinions from eBay’s outside legal counsel or tax advisors regarding the qualification of the distribution, together with certain related transactions, as a transaction that is generally tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Code. The opinion will be based on and rely on, among other things, certain facts and assumptions, as well as certain representations, statements and undertakings of eBay and PayPal, including those relating to the past and future conduct of eBay and PayPal. If any of these representations, statements or undertakings are, or become, inaccurate or incomplete, or if eBay or PayPal breach any of their respective covenants in the separation documents, the opinion of counsel may be invalid and the conclusions reached therein could be jeopardized.

Notwithstanding the opinion of counsel, the IRS could determine that the distribution, together with certain related transactions, should be treated as a taxable transaction if it determines that any of these representations, assumptions, or undertakings upon which such opinion was based are incorrect or have been violated or if it disagrees with the conclusions in the opinion of counsel. An opinion of counsel is not binding on the IRS or any court and there can be no assurance that the IRS will not challenge the conclusions reached in the opinion. The IRS will not provide any opinion in advance of the separation that our proposed transaction will be tax-free.

If the distribution, together with certain related transactions, failed to qualify as a transaction that is generally tax-free under Sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Code, in general, eBay would recognize taxable gain as if it had sold the PayPal common stock in a taxable sale for its fair market value, eBay stockholders who receive PayPal common stock in the distribution would be subject to tax as if they had received a taxable distribution equal to the fair market value of such shares and we could incur significant liabilities. For more information, please refer to “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences.”

We may not be able to engage in desirable strategic or capital-raising transactions following the separation. In addition, we could be liable for adverse tax consequences resulting from engaging in significant strategic or capital-raising transactions.

To preserve the tax-free treatment to eBay of the separation and the distribution, under the tax matters agreement that we will enter into with eBay, for a period of time following the distribution, we generally will be prohibited from taking certain actions that prevent the distribution and related transactions from qualifying as a transaction that is generally tax-free, for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Sections 368(a)(1)(D) and 355 of the Code.

These restrictions may limit our ability to pursue certain strategic transactions or other transactions that may maximize the value of our business. For more information, please refer to “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” and “Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions—The Tax Matters Agreement.”

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We have no history of operating as an independent company in our current form, and our historical and pro forma financial information is not necessarily representative of the results that we would have achieved as a separate, publicly traded company and may not be a reliable indicator of our future results.

Our historical information provided in this information statement refers to our business as operated by and integrated with eBay. Our historical and pro forma financial information included in this information statement is derived from the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of eBay. Accordingly, the historical and pro forma financial information included in this information statement does not necessarily reflect the financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows that we would have achieved as a separate, publicly traded company during the periods presented or those that we will achieve in the future primarily as a result of the factors described below:

Other significant changes may occur in our cost structure, management, financing, and business operations as a result of operating as a company separate from eBay. For additional information about the past financial performance of our business and the basis of presentation of the historical combined financial statements and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements of our business, see “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements,” “Selected Historical Combined Financial Data of PayPal,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the historical financial statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere in this information statement.

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eBay will be a significant source of our revenues after the distribution.

After the distribution, we will derive a significant amount of revenues from eBay. If the operating agreement expires or if eBay terminates the operating agreement prior to its expiration or there is a significant change in our relationship with eBay, including if eBay becomes a merchant of record, directs transactions to a different provider of payment services or offers eBay customers more payment options, our business could be harmed.

eBay may fail to perform under various transaction agreements that will be executed as part of the separation or it may fail to have necessary systems and services in place when certain of the transaction agreements expire.

In connection with the separation, we will enter into a separation and distribution agreement with eBay and will also enter into various other agreements, including an operating agreement, an information technology services agreement, a transition services agreement, a tax matters agreement, an employee matters agreement, an intellectual property matters agreement, data sharing agreements and a joint development agreement. The separation agreement, the tax matters agreement, the employee matters agreement, an intellectual property matters agreement will determine the allocation of assets and liabilities (including by means of licensing) between the companies following the separation for those respective areas and will include any necessary indemnifications related to liabilities and obligations. The operating agreement and information technology services agreement will establish certain commercial relationships between eBay and us related to payment processing, credit, information technology infrastructure and data sharing. The transition services agreement will provide for the performance of certain services by each company for the benefit of the other for a limited period of time after the separation. We will rely on eBay to satisfy its performance and payment obligations under these agreements. If eBay is unable to satisfy its obligations under these agreements, including its indemnification obligations, we could incur operational difficulties or losses. If we do not have in place our own systems and services, or if we do not have agreements with other providers of these services once these transaction agreements expire or terminate, we may not be able to operate our business effectively and our profitability may decline.

Our accounting and other management systems and resources may not be adequately prepared to meet the financial reporting and other requirements to which it will be subject following the distribution.

Our financial results previously were included within the consolidated results of eBay, and its reporting and control systems were appropriate for subsidiaries of a public company. Prior to the distribution, we were not directly subject to reporting and other requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. After the distribution, we expect to be subject to such reporting and other requirements in 2016, which will require, among other things, annual management assessments of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting and a report by our independent registered public accounting firm addressing these assessments. These and other obligations will place significant demands on our management, administrative, and operational resources, including accounting and information technology resources. To comply with these requirements, we anticipate that we will need to upgrade our systems, including duplicating computer hardware infrastructure, implement additional financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures, and hire additional accounting, finance and information technology staff. If we are unable to do this in a timely and effective fashion, our ability to comply with our financial reporting requirements and other rules that apply to reporting companies could be impaired and our business could be harmed.

After the separation, certain of our directors may have actual or potential conflicts of interest because of their previous or continuing positions at eBay.

Because of their current or former positions with eBay, certain of our expected directors own eBay common stock and equity awards. Following the separation, even though our board of directors will consist of a majority of directors who are independent, some of our directors will continue to have a financial interest in eBay

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common stock and equity awards. In addition, [ — ] of our directors may continue serving on the board of directors of eBay. Continuing ownership of eBay common stock and equity awards, or service as a director at both companies could create, or appear to create, potential conflicts of interest if PayPal and eBay have disagreements about the contracts between them that continue or face decisions that could have different implications for PayPal and eBay.

Risks Related to Our Common Stock

We cannot be certain that an active trading market for our common stock will develop or be sustained after the separation, and following the separation, and the price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly.

A public market for our common stock does not currently exist. We anticipate that on or prior to the record date for the distribution, trading of shares of our common stock will begin on a “when-issued” basis which will continue through the distribution date. However, we cannot guarantee that an active trading market will develop or be sustained for our common stock after the separation. Nor can we predict the prices at which shares of our common stock may trade after the separation. Similarly, we cannot predict the effect of the separation on the price of our common stock or whether the combined market value of our common stock and the eBay common stock will be less than, equal to or greater than the market value of eBay common stock prior to the separation.

The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly due to a number of factors, some of which may be beyond our control, including:

There may be substantial changes in our stockholder base.

Many investors holding eBay common stock may hold that stock because of a decision to invest in a company with eBay’s profile. Following the distribution, the shares of our common stock held by those investors will represent an investment in a payments company with a different profile. This may not be aligned with a holder’s investment strategy and may cause the holder to sell the shares. As a result, our stock price may decline or experience volatility as our stockholder base changes.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This information statement and other materials eBay and PayPal have filed or will file with the SEC contain, or will contain, certain forward-looking statements regarding business strategies, market potential, future financial performance and other matters. The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project” and similar expressions, among others, generally identify “forward-looking statements,” which speak only as of the date the statements were made. The matters discussed in these forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. In particular, information included under “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Business,” and “The Separation and Distribution” contain forward-looking statements. Where, in any forward-looking statement, an expectation or belief as to future results or events is expressed, such expectation or belief is based on the current plans and expectations of PayPal management and expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the expectation or belief will result or be achieved or accomplished. Except as may be required by law, PayPal undertakes no obligation to modify or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this information statement. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated include the matters described under “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

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THE SEPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION

Overview

On September 30, 2014, eBay Inc. (“eBay”) announced its intent to separate its payments business into an independent, publicly-traded company. To accomplish this separation, in January 2015, eBay incorporated PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal Holdings”) which will ultimately become the parent of PayPal, Inc. and will hold directly or indirectly all of the assets and liabilities associated with PayPal, Inc. eBay intends to effect this separation through a pro rata distribution of the common stock of PayPal Holdings to its stockholders. References to “we,” “our,” “us,” “the Company” or “PayPal” refer to the combined entities of the payments business of eBay, including PayPal, Inc. and certain other assets and liabilities that have been historically held at the eBay corporate level, but are specifically identifiable and attributable to the payments business.

On [ — ], 2015, the eBay board of directors approved the distribution of the issued and outstanding shares of PayPal common stock on the basis of one share of PayPal common stock for every [ — ] share of eBay common stock held as of the close of business on the record date of [ — ], 2015.

At 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on [ — ], 2015, the distribution date, each eBay stockholder will receive one share of PayPal common stock for every [ — ] share of eBay common stock held at the close of business on the record date for the distribution, as described below. eBay stockholders will receive cash in lieu of any fractional shares of PayPal common stock that they would have received after application of this ratio. You will not be required to make any payment, surrender or exchange your eBay common stock or take any other action to receive your shares of PayPal’s common stock in the distribution. The distribution of PayPal’s common stock as described in this information statement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions. For a more detailed description of these conditions, see “Conditions to the Distribution.”

Reasons for the Separation

The eBay board of directors determined that the creation of two independent public companies, with PayPal operating the Payments business, and eBay operating the Marketplaces business is in the best interests of eBay and its stockholders and approved the plan of separation. A wide variety of factors were considered by the eBay board of directors in evaluating the creation of independent public companies. Among other things, the eBay board of directors considered the following expected benefits:

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Neither PayPal nor eBay can assure you that, following the separation, any of the benefits described above or otherwise will be realized to the extent anticipated or at all.

The eBay board of directors also considered a number of potentially negative factors in evaluating the creation of independent public companies, including the loss of synergies and joint purchasing power and increased costs resulting from operating as a separate public entity, one-time costs of the separation, and the risk of not realizing the anticipated benefits of the separation. The eBay board of directors concluded that the potential benefits outweighed these factors.

Formation of PayPal Holdings

PayPal Holdings was formed in January, 2015 for the purpose of owning and operating eBay’s payments business. As part of the plan to create two independent public companies, eBay plans to transfer the equity interests of certain entities that operate the payments business and the assets and liabilities of the payments business to PayPal Holdings prior to the distribution.

When and How You Will Receive the Distribution

With the assistance of [ — ], eBay expects to distribute PayPal common stock at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on [ — ], 2015, the distribution date, to all holders of outstanding eBay common stock as of the close of business on [ — ], 2015, the record date for the distribution. [ — ] will serve as the settlement and distribution agent in connection with the distribution and the transfer agent and registrar for PayPal common stock.

If you own shares of eBay common stock as of the close of business on the record date for the distribution, PayPal’s common stock that you are entitled to receive in the distribution will be issued electronically, as of the distribution date, to you in direct registration form or to your bank or brokerage firm on your behalf. If you are a registered holder, [ — ] will then mail you a direct registration account statement that reflects your shares of PayPal common stock. If you hold your shares through a bank or brokerage firm, your bank or brokerage firm will credit your account for the shares. Direct registration form refers to a method of recording share ownership when no physical share certificates are issued to shareholders, as is the case in this distribution. If you sell eBay common stock in the “regular-way” market up to and including the distribution date, you will be selling your right to receive shares of PayPal common stock in the distribution.

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Commencing on or shortly after the distribution date, if you hold physical stock certificates that represent your shares of eBay common stock and you are the registered holder of the shares represented by those certificates, the distribution agent will mail to you an account statement that indicates the number of shares of PayPal’s common stock that have been registered in book-entry form in your name.

Most eBay stockholders hold their shares of common stock through a bank or brokerage firm. In such cases, the bank or brokerage firm would be said to hold the shares in “street name” and ownership would be recorded on the bank or brokerage firm’s books. If you hold your shares of eBay common stock through a bank or brokerage firm, your bank or brokerage firm will credit your account for the PayPal common stock that you are entitled to receive in the distribution. If you have any questions concerning the mechanics of having shares held in “street name,” please contact your bank or brokerage firm.

Transferability of Shares You Receive

Shares of PayPal common stock distributed to holders in connection with the distribution will be transferable without registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), except for shares received by persons who may be deemed to be PayPal affiliates. Persons who may be deemed to be PayPal affiliates after the distribution generally include individuals or entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with PayPal, which may include certain PayPal executive officers, directors or principal stockholders. Securities held by PayPal affiliates will be subject to resale restrictions under the Securities Act. PayPal affiliates will be permitted to sell shares of PayPal common stock only pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, such as the exemption afforded by Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

Number of Shares of PayPal Common Stock You Will Receive

For every [ — ] shares of eBay common stock that you own at the close of business on [ — ], 2015, the record date for the distribution, you will receive one share of PayPal common stock on the distribution date. eBay will not distribute any fractional shares of PayPal common stock to its shareholders. Instead, if you are a registered holder, [ — ] (the distribution agent) will aggregate fractional shares into whole shares, sell the whole shares in the open market at prevailing market prices and distribute the aggregate cash proceeds (net of discounts and commissions) of the sales pro rata (based on the fractional share such holder would otherwise be entitled to receive) to each holder who otherwise would have been entitled to receive a fractional share in the distribution. The distribution agent, in its sole discretion, without any influence by eBay or PayPal, will determine when, how, and through which broker-dealer and at what price to sell the whole shares. Any broker-dealer used by the distribution agent will not be an affiliate of either eBay or PayPal. [ — ] is not an affiliate of either eBay or PayPal. Neither PayPal nor eBay will be able to guarantee any minimum sale price in connection with the sale of these shares. Recipients of cash in lieu of fractional shares will not be entitled to any interest on the amounts of payment made in lieu of fractional shares.

The aggregate net cash proceeds of these sales of fractional shares will be taxable for U.S. federal income tax purposes. See “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” for an explanation of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the distribution. If you hold physical certificates for shares of eBay common stock and are the registered holder, you will receive a check from the distribution agent in an amount equal to your pro rata share of the aggregate net cash proceeds of the sales. PayPal estimates that it will take approximately two weeks from the distribution date for the distribution agent to complete the distributions of the aggregate net cash proceeds. If you hold your shares of eBay common stock through a bank or brokerage firm, your bank or brokerage firm will receive, on your behalf, your pro rata share of the aggregate net cash proceeds of the sales and will electronically credit your account for your share of such proceeds.

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Treatment of Equity Based Compensation

Outstanding awards granted under eBay’s equity compensation programs will be adjusted in accordance with the terms of such programs to reflect the impact of the separation on such awards, with such adjusted awards to relate to shares of eBay and/or PayPal common stock, as applicable, and with appropriate adjustments to the exercise prices (for options) and number of shares subject to such awards. More detail regarding the treatment of outstanding equity compensation awards will be provided in subsequent amendments to this information statement.

Results of the Distribution

After the distribution, PayPal will be an independent, publicly traded company. The actual number of shares to be distributed will be determined at the close of business on [ — ], 2015, the record date for the distribution, and will reflect any exercise of eBay options between the date the eBay board of directors declares the distribution and the record date for the distribution. The distribution will not affect the number of outstanding shares of eBay common stock or any rights of eBay shareholders. eBay will not distribute any fractional shares of PayPal common stock.

PayPal will enter into a separation agreement and other related agreements with eBay before the distribution to effect the separation and provide a framework for PayPal’s relationship with eBay after the separation. These agreements will provide for the allocation between eBay and PayPal of eBay’s assets, liabilities and obligations (including its investments, property and employee benefits and tax-related assets and liabilities) attributable to periods prior to PayPal’s separation from eBay and will govern the relationship between eBay and PayPal after the separation. For a more detailed description of these agreements, see “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.”

Market for PayPal’s Common Stock

There is currently no public trading market for PayPal’s common stock. PayPal intends to apply to have its common stock authorized for listing on the [ — ] under the symbol “[ — ].” PayPal has not and will not set the initial price of its common stock. The initial price will be established by the public markets.

PayPal cannot predict the price at which its common stock will trade after the distribution. The combined trading prices, after the separation, of the shares of PayPal common stock that each eBay shareholder will receive in the distribution and the shares of eBay common stock held at the record date for the distribution may not equal the “regular-way” trading price of a eBay share immediately prior to the separation. The price at which PayPal common stock trades may fluctuate significantly, particularly until an orderly public market develops. Trading prices for PayPal common stock will be determined in the public markets and may be influenced by many factors. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to PayPal’s Common Stock.”

Trading Between the Record Date and Distribution Date

Beginning on or shortly before the record date for the distribution and continuing up to and including through the distribution date, eBay expects that there will be two markets in eBay common stock: a “regular-way” market and an “ex-distribution” market. Shares of eBay common stock that trade on the “regular-way” market will trade with an entitlement to PayPal common stock distributed pursuant to the separation. Shares of eBay common stock that trade on the “ex-distribution” market will trade without an entitlement to PayPal common stock distributed pursuant to the distribution. Therefore, if you sell shares of eBay common stock in the “regular-way” market up to and including through the distribution date, you will be selling your right to receive PayPal common stock in the distribution. If you own shares of eBay common stock at the close of business on the record date and sell those shares on the “ex-distribution” market up to and including through the distribution date, you will receive the shares of PayPal common stock that you are entitled to receive pursuant to your ownership as of the record date of the shares of eBay common stock.

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Furthermore, beginning on or shortly before the record date for the distribution and continuing up to and including the distribution date, PayPal expects that there will be a “when-issued” market in its common stock. “When-issued” trading refers to a sale or purchase made conditionally because the security has been authorized but not yet issued. The “when-issued” trading market will be a market for shares of PayPal common stock that will be distributed to holders of shares of eBay common stock on the distribution date. If you owned shares of eBay common stock at the close of business on the record date for the distribution, you would be entitled to shares of PayPal common stock distributed pursuant to the distribution. You may trade this entitlement to shares of PayPal common stock, without the shares of eBay common stock you own, on the “when-issued” market, but your transaction will not settle until after the distribution date. On the first trading day following the distribution date, “when-issued” trading with respect to PayPal common stock will end, and “regular-way” trading will begin.

Conditions to the Distribution

eBay has announced that the distribution will be effective at 11:59 p.m., Eastern time, on [ — ], 2015, which is the distribution date; provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied (or waived by eBay in its sole discretion):

eBay and PayPal cannot assure you that any or all of these conditions will be met and may also waive any of the conditions to the distribution. In addition, eBay will have the sole and absolute discretion to determine (and change) the terms of, and whether to proceed with, the distribution and, to the extent it determines to so proceed,

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to determine the record date for the distribution and the distribution date and the distribution ratio. eBay will also have sole discretion to waive any of the conditions to the distribution. eBay does not intend to notify its shareholders of any modifications to the terms of the separation that, in the judgment of its board of directors, are not material. For example, the eBay board of directors might consider material such matters as significant changes to the distribution ratio, the assets to be contributed or the liabilities to be assumed in the separation. To the extent that the eBay board of directors determines that any modifications by eBay materially change the material terms of the distribution, eBay will notify eBay shareholders in a manner reasonably calculated to inform them about the modification as may be required by law, by, for example, publishing a press release, filing a current report on Form 8-K, or circulating a supplement to this information statement.

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DIVIDEND POLICY

PayPal does not expect to pay a regular cash dividend following the distribution. The timing, declaration, amount of and payment of any dividends following the separation by PayPal is within the discretion of its board of directors and will depend upon many factors, including PayPal’s financial condition, earnings, capital requirements of its operating subsidiaries, debt service obligations, covenants associated with certain of PayPal’s debt service obligations, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, industry practice, ability to gain access to capital markets, and other factors deemed relevant by its board of directors. Moreover, if PayPal determines to pay any dividend in the future, there can be no assurance that it will continue to pay such dividends or the amount of such dividends.

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth PayPal’s capitalization as of [ — ], 2015, on a historical basis and on a pro forma basis to give effect to the pro forma adjustments included in PayPal’s unaudited pro forma financial information. The information below is not necessarily indicative of what PayPal’s capitalization would have been had the separation, distribution and related financing transactions been completed as of [ — ], 2015. In addition, it is not indicative of PayPal’s future capitalization. This table should be read in conjunction with “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements,” “Selected Historical Combined Financial Data of PayPal,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and PayPal’s combined financial statements and notes included in the “Index to Financial Statements and Schedule” section of this information statement.

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SELECTED HISTORICAL COMBINED FINANCIAL DATA OF PAYPAL

The following selected financial data reflect the combined operations of PayPal. PayPal derived the selected combined income statement data for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 and the selected combined balance sheet data as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, as set forth below, from its audited combined financial statements, which are included in the “Index to Financial Statements and Schedule” section of this information statement. PayPal derived the selected combined income statement data for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 and the selected combined balance sheet data as of December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 from PayPal’s underlying financial records, which were derived from the financial records of eBay. The historical results do not necessarily indicate the results expected for any future period. To ensure a full understanding, you should read the selected combined financial data presented below in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the combined financial statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere in this information statement.

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements presented below have been derived from PayPal’s historical combined financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2014. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements should be read in conjunction with PayPal’s historical combined financial statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in this information statement. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of income has been prepared to give effect to the Pro Forma Transactions (as defined below) as if the Pro Forma Transactions had occurred or had become effective as of January 1, 2014. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet has been prepared to give effect to the Pro Forma Transactions as though the Pro Forma Transactions had occurred on December 31, 2014.

Our unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been prepared based on available information, assumptions, and estimates that management believes are reasonable. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are for illustrative and informational purposes only, and do not reflect what PayPal’s financial position and results of operations would have been had the separation occurred on the dates indicated and are not necessarily indicative of its future financial position and future results of operations.

Our unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been prepared to reflect adjustments to our audited historical combined financial statements that are: (i) factually supportable, (ii) directly attributable to the distribution, and, for purposes of the combined statements of income, (iii) expected to have continuing impact on our results of operations. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been adjusted to give effect to the following (the “Pro Forma Transactions”):

Our historical combined statement of income includes allocations of certain expenses relating to support functions historically provided by eBay. These functions include, but are not limited to: finance, legal, human resources, information technology, employee benefits administration, treasury, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, shared services and other general and administrative costs. To operate as an independent public company, we expect to incur costs to replace those services previously provided by eBay in addition to incremental standalone costs. Due to the scope and complexity of these activities, the amount and timing of these incremental costs could vary and, consequently, are not included in the Pro Forma Transactions.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements constitute forward-looking information and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. See “Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” included elsewhere in this information statement.

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PayPal Holdings, Inc.

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Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements

The calculations of pro forma diluted earnings per share and weighted-average shares outstanding for the period presented are based on the number of shares used to calculate eBay diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2014, adjusted for the same distribution ratio. This calculation may not be indicative of the dilutive effect that will actually result from PayPal stock-based awards issued in connection with the adjustment of outstanding eBay stock-based awards or the grant of new stock-based awards. The number of dilutive shares of our common stock underlying PayPal stock-based awards issued in connection with the adjustment of outstanding eBay stock-based awards will not be determined until after the distribution date.

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BUSINESS

Overview

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“we,” “our,” “us,” “the Company” or “PayPal”) is a leading technology platform company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. We put our customers at the center of everything we do. We strive to increase our relevance for consumers, merchants, friends and family to access and move their money anywhere in the world, anytime, on any platform and through any device (e.g., mobile, tablets, personal computers or wearables). We provide safer and simpler ways for businesses of all sizes to accept payments from merchant websites, mobile devices and applications, and at offline retail locations through a wide range of payment solutions across our Payments Platform, including PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo and Braintree products.

We enable global commerce by providing payment solutions for our approximately 162 million active customer accounts in over 200 markets, while providing customers a choice of how they would like to pay or get paid. An active customer account is a registered account that successfully sent or received at least one payment or payment reversal through our Payments Platform, excluding transactions processed through our gateway products, in the past 12 months. Our gateway products include our Payflow Payments and certain Braintree products. A payment gateway links a merchant’s website to that merchant’s processing network and merchant account.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their account to both purchase and be paid for goods, as well as transfer and withdraw funds. A consumer can typically fund a purchase using a bank account, a PayPal account balance, a PayPal Credit account, a credit or debit card or other stored value products such as coupons and gift cards. Our PayPal and Venmo products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other using several of these funding sources. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds. We help merchants connect with their customers and manage risk. We measure the relevance of our products in the lives of our customers, and therefore the success of our business, through both payment volume and payment transactions. Payment volume is the value of payments, net of payment reversals, successfully completed through our Payments Platform, excluding transactions processed through our gateway products (“Total Payment Volume” or “TPV”). During 2014, our TPV was approximately $235 billion, representing growth of 26% over 2013. “Payment transactions” is the total number of payments, net of payment reversals, successfully completed through our Payments Platform, excluding transactions processed through our gateway products. During 2014, payment transactions were approximately 4.0 billion, representing growth of 22% over 2013.

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Our Payments Platform is built to make the existing global financial infrastructure work for people in the digital age. PayPal allows people to make seamless transactions between different markets and networks. Our Payments Platform connects with financial institutions around the world, and allows consumers to make purchases using a broad range of payment methods, regardless of where a merchant is located. Consumers who use our Payments Platform can engage in cross-border shopping by sending payments to each other in more than 200 markets across the globe and in more than 100 currencies. This enables merchants to increase sales volume by allowing them to sell across borders to a much larger base of consumers.

We generate revenues by charging fees for providing transaction processing and other payment-related services, primarily based on the volume of activity, or TPV, processed through our Payments Platform. We also earn revenue by providing value added services to consumers and merchants, such as PayPal’s Credit products. Our

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revenue growth is influenced by, among other things, consumer spending patterns, merchant adoption of payment methods other than traditional credit cards and cash, the expansion of multi-channel retail, the growth of mobile devices and merchant applications on those devices, the growth of consumers with access to the internet globally, the pace of transition from paper-based forms of payment to digital forms of payment, our share of the digital payments market, and our ability to innovate new methods of payment that merchants and consumers find to be valuable. Our strategy is to drive revenue growth by:

PayPal is a popular form of payment for mobile commerce, and our business has grown with the increased adoption of mobile devices. In December 2013, we completed our acquisition of Braintree to strengthen our position in mobile payments and extend our coverage to a new class of retailers who offer their services primarily through mobile applications. As part of that acquisition, we also acquired Venmo, which offers a leading mobile application to move money between friends and family using their mobile device.

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We operate globally and in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment characterized by a heightened regulatory focus on all aspects of the payments industry. Some of the laws and regulations to which we are subject were enacted recently and many such laws and regulations, including those enacted prior to the advent of digital and mobile payments, are continuing to evolve through legislative and regulatory action and judicial interpretation. Changes in or non-compliance with laws and regulations, changes in the interpretation of laws and regulations, and the enactment of new laws and regulations applicable to us could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Therefore, we monitor these areas closely to ensure compliant solutions for our customers who depend on us.

Connecting Merchants and Consumers

We operate a proprietary global technology platform that links merchants and consumers around the globe to facilitate the processing of payment transactions, allowing us to connect millions of merchants and consumers worldwide. Our Payments Platform facilitates an efficient and secure means for merchants to receive payments, and a convenient, secure way for consumers to make payments. We process transactions through our Payments Platform in more than 200 markets, allowing customers to pay and get paid in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 57 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 26 currencies.

A transaction on our Payments Platform can involve up to three participants in addition to us: a merchant, a consumer and the consumer’s funding source provider. The following diagram illustrates a typical payment transaction between a consumer and a merchant on our Payments Platform:

Consumers

We enable consumers to more safely exchange funds with merchants using their PayPal digital wallet. Our digital wallet provides consumers with the ability to draw funds from a variety of their financial resources, which may include both “internal” sources of funds (i.e., a PayPal account balance or PayPal Credit account) and

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sources of funds that are “external” to PayPal (e.g., bank transfers, credit and debit cards or gift cards), within one application. We generally do not charge consumers to fund or draw from their accounts; however, we generate revenue from consumers on fees charged to exchange currencies and on interest and fees from consumer loans originated through our PayPal Credit products.

We value our relationship with our consumers and invest in this relationship; we strive to provide efficient customer service, account support, protection from loss, and create relevant products. Approximately 8,000 people in our customer service organization work around the clock to provide our consumers with answers and solutions when and where they need them, in over 20 languages. We have operations centers around the world, including in Chandler, Arizona; Hunt Valley, Maryland; Omaha, Nebraska; Berlin, Germany; Dundalk, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Shanghai, China that strive to provide high-quality service and support for our customers. We have also developed a number of trust and security programs, including PayPal’s Buyer Protection Program, that provide additional protection to consumers for qualifying purchases by reimbursing the consumer for the full amount of the purchase if a purchased item does not arrive or does not match the seller’s description (see Protecting Merchants and Consumers discussion below).

Traditional financial institutions often charge fees for basic services provided to their customers, and existing alternatives to these financial institutions, including services to cash a check or pay a bill, are often inconvenient and expensive. We focus on providing low cost consumer products that democratize the access to and movement of money. We believe that managing and moving a consumer’s hard earned money should be a right, not a privilege. Through our technology and products, we believe we can change the status quo and make digital payments more efficient and accessible. We expect person-to-person (or “P2P”) transfers to contribute to this strategy. These P2P products are believed to have network effects, helping to establish relationships with potential PayPal users by allowing them to join the Payments Platform at the time of making or receiving payments, which encourages our natural, user-driven growth. PayPal offers P2P payment solutions through its website, its PayPal mobile application, and through Venmo, a mobile application that enables payment transactions between non-merchant account holders.

Merchants

As commerce continues to transition from the physical world to the digital world and from domestic commerce to global commerce, our proprietary Payments Platform provides opportunities for merchants to grow their businesses. We partner with merchants to help them grow and expand their businesses by improving sales conversion, providing global reach, offering alternative payment methods (such as easy integration credit products and mobile capabilities), reducing losses through proprietary protection programs and leveraging data analytics. We continue to grow merchant acceptance through business development activities and direct relationships with merchants. We enable merchants to more safely and simply receive payments from our active customer accounts, providing global reach while reducing some of the complexity and friction involved in enabling overseas and cross-border trade. For the year ended December 31, 2014, approximately 48% of PayPal’s TPV involved a merchant outside of the U.S., and approximately 24% was cross-border (i.e., transactions where the merchant and consumer were in different countries).

A merchant can typically open a standard PayPal account and begin accepting payments through PayPal within a few minutes. Most online or mobile merchants can onboard quickly and are not required to invest in new or specialized hardware. Our Payments Platform supports growth with a variety of value-added services designed to help businesses of all sizes manage their cash flow, invoice clients, pay bills, and reduce the need for merchants to receive and store sensitive customer financial information. For our standard service, we do not charge merchants setup or recurring fees. A merchant can also integrate with Braintree to begin accepting payments with credit or debit cards, PayPal, Venmo, digital currencies such as Bitcoin, or other payment solutions with a single integration.

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Our payment and PayPal Credit products, are designed to help merchants increase the conversion rate of consumer purchases on their websites and mobile applications. For example, our One Touch product allows consumers to authenticate their account during their first One Touch purchase. This enables them to skip the login process for future payments and turn shopping into a one touch operation with near-instant authentication. We also provide the ability for merchants to offer (and consumers to fund) payments via a deferred payment option using our PayPal Credit products. When a consumer funds a purchase using PayPal Credit, our chartered financial institution in Luxembourg, or an independent chartered financial institution in the U.S. with whom we partner, extends credit to the consumer, funds the extension of credit at the point of sale (“POS”) and advances funds to the merchant. In the U.S., we subsequently purchase the consumer receivables related to the consumer loans from the independent chartered financial institution with whom we partnered and as a result of that purchase, bear the risk of loss on the related consumer receivables, less the participation interest held by the independent chartered financial institution. We are responsible for all servicing functions related to the PayPal Credit customer account balances. In addition, we have a program in which we offer certain of our merchants a line of credit, which may be paid back to PayPal through a percentage of their sales generated through PayPal.

We value our relationship with merchants and invest in this relationship by providing customer service, account support, developer advocacy and support, and proprietary risk and security solutions. In addition to our consumer protection programs, we have also developed PayPal’s Seller Protection Program. This program provides protection to merchants against claims that a transaction was not authorized by the buyer or claims that an item was not received by covering the seller for the full amount of the payment on eligible sales. By offering dual buyer and seller protection programs, both the consumer and merchant can transact with confidence.

Our Payments Platform and open application programming interfaces (“APIs”) are designed to allow developers to innovate with ease and to offer cutting edge applications to a large ecosystem of merchants and consumers, while at the same time maintaining the security of our customers’ financial information. We provide developers with easy to use, flexible and powerful tools that are designed to leverage our global reach and payment capabilities. Our software developer kits (“SDKs”) are specifically focused on the mobile application market and are designed to remove friction by not requiring a redirect to PayPal.com or an additional log in. We are using a true “mobile first” approach to make payments simple and intuitive.

Revenue Sources

We earn revenues primarily by processing customer transactions on our Payments Platform and from other value added services. Our revenues are classified into the following two categories:

Transaction revenues are generated primarily from fees charged to merchants on the TPV that we enable. Growth in TPV is also directly impacted by the number of active customer accounts and the payment transactions that we enable on our payments platform. In 2014, transaction revenues generated from customers and merchants on eBay’s marketplace who completed a transaction using our products constituted 29% of our net revenues, down from 32% in 2013. The decline in percentage of revenues generated from eBay buyers and eBay sellers reflects the growth in adoption of PayPal solutions on platforms other than eBay. No other source of revenue represented more than 10% of our revenues.

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prioritize and promote our branded products and other payment programs. These financial incentives may be based on TPV or other performance-based criteria, such as issuance of new payment products, increased acceptance of our products, launch of new programs or execution of marketing initiatives.

Protecting Merchants and Consumers

Protecting merchants and consumers from loss is imperative to successfully competing in the payments industry. Trust and security are essential for our customers, and PayPal invests significantly in providing both merchants and consumers with comprehensive protection. The risk to merchants and consumers (and their payments partners) from fraudulent activities, such as account takeover, identity theft and counterparty mal-intent, is growing. Our ability to protect both consumers and merchants is based largely on our ability to leverage the data we collect on transactions and our analytical capabilities. We believe mobile devices will play an important part in the future of commerce, creating the opportunities to make our ecosystem safer. For example, PayPal is able to use accurate location data and growing protection for the mobile operating environment to reduce risk to merchants and consumers.

We enable consumers to make payments safely and simply without sharing sensitive financial information, such as credit card or debit card numbers, with merchants or other consumers. To make payments using PayPal, consumers need to disclose only their email address or mobile phone number to merchants. The account-based nature of our Payments Platform helps us to better detect and prevent fraud when funds enter, flow through and exit the Payments Platform because our transactions are tokenized and because payment authorization credentials are separated from account holder information. Our ongoing investment in systems and processes designed to enhance the safety and security of our products reflects our goal of having PayPal recognized as one of the world’s most trusted payments brands.

We provide merchants and consumers with protection programs on substantially all transactions completed through our Payments Platform, except for transactions using our gateway products. These programs protect both merchants and consumers from loss primarily due to fraud and counterparty performance. Our risk management capabilities allow us to provide these protections, which are generally much broader than those protections provided by other participants in the payments industry. We believe that as a result of these programs, consumers can be confident that they will only be required to pay if they receive the product in the condition as described, and merchants can be confident that they will receive payment for the product that they are delivering to the customer.

Our Payments Platform utilizes a combination of proprietary technologies and services as well as technologies and services provided by third parties. We have developed intuitive user interfaces, customer tools and transaction processing, database and network applications that help enable our users to reliably and securely complete transactions on our sites and help our customers to utilize its suite of services. Our technology infrastructure simplifies the storage and processing of large amounts of data, eases the deployment and operation of large-scale global products and services and automates much of the administration of large-scale clusters of computers. Our technology infrastructure has been designed around industry-standard architectures to reduce downtime in the event of outages or catastrophic occurrences. We strive to continually improve our technology infrastructure to enhance the customer experience and to increase efficiency, scalability and security.

Our Payments Platform’s architecture enables us to connect all parties regardless of whether the transaction is occurring at a traditional physical location, online or through a mobile device. The Payments Platform incorporates multiple layers of protection, both for continuity purposes and to help address cyber-security challenges. We engage in multiple efforts to protect the Payments Platform against these challenges, including regularly testing our systems to address potential vulnerabilities.

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Intellectual Property

The protection of our intellectual property, including our trademarks (particularly those covering the PayPal name), patents, copyrights, domain names, trade dress and trade secrets is critical to our success. We aggressively protect our intellectual property rights by relying on federal, state and common law rights in the U.S. and internationally, as well as a variety of administrative procedures. We also rely on contractual restrictions to protect our proprietary rights in products and services. We have routinely entered into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and contractors and nondisclosure agreements with parties with whom we conduct business to control access to and limit disclosure of our proprietary information.

We pursue the registration of our domain names, trademarks and service marks in the U.S. and internationally. Additionally, we have filed U.S. and international patent applications covering certain aspects of our proprietary technology. Effective trademark, copyright, patent, domain name, trade dress and trade secret protection is very expensive to maintain and may require litigation. We must protect our intellectual property and other proprietary rights in an increasing number of jurisdictions, a process that is expensive and time consuming and may not be successful.

We have registered our core brands as trademarks and domain names in the U.S. and a large number of other jurisdictions and have in place an active program to continue to secure trademarks and domain names that correspond to our brands in markets of interest.

Competition

Consumers may choose to pay merchants through a variety of alternative means, including credit and debit cards, automated clearing house and bank transfers, other online payment services, offline payment methods such as cash, check or money order and by using mobile phones. PayPal’s products compete with products from three-party networks (such as American Express and Discover), four-party networks (such as Visa and MasterCard) and other mobile payment solutions.

PayPal seeks to differentiate itself from industry participants on the safety of the transaction (our risk management capabilities as well as protection of consumer account details), the simplicity provided for digital transactions (use of an e-mail address, a mobile phone number or our One Touch product), and being both brand and technology agnostic. Further, unlike traditional four-party networks or other mobile payment solutions, PayPal has a direct financial relationship with both its consumers and merchants. As a result of our risk management capabilities, PayPal can provide its customers with protection from fraud and other losses incurred by participants to a transaction.

To compete effectively, we will need to continue to expend significant resources in technology and marketing. During 2014, PayPal incurred over $1 billion on product innovation and development, and enhancing our infrastructure, to ensure our customers have the capabilities they need and want to complete transactions safely and simply. Further, in 2014, we incurred over $270 million related to our efforts to promote our brands through advertising, promotions, and other strategic initiatives. Our marketing efforts play an important role in building brand visibility, usage and overall preference among consumers at checkout.

Government Regulation

Government regulation impacts key aspects of our business. We are subject to regulations that affect the payments industry in the countries we operate.

Payments Regulation. Various laws and regulations govern the payments industry in the U.S. and globally. In the U.S., several of our subsidiaries hold licenses to operate as a money transmitter (or its equivalent), which, among other things, subjects those subsidiaries to reporting requirements, bonding requirements, limitations on the

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investment of customer funds and inspection by state regulatory agencies. Outside the U.S., we provide localized versions of our service to customers through various foreign subsidiaries. The activities of those non-U.S. entities are, or may, be supervised by a financial regulatory authority in the jurisdictions in which they operate. Among other regulatory authorities, the Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (the “CSSF”), the Australian Securities Investment Commission, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Reserve Bank of India and the Central Bank of Russia have asserted jurisdiction over some or all of our activities in a particular country. This list is not exhaustive, as there are numerous other regulatory agencies that have or may assert jurisdiction. The laws and regulations applicable to the payments industry in any given jurisdiction are subject to interpretation and change.

Banking Agency Supervision . We serve our customers in the European Union through PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, SCA, a wholly-owned subsidiary that is licensed and subject to regulation as a bank in Luxembourg by the CSSF. Consequently, we must comply with rules and regulations of the banking industry related to capitalization, funds management, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, disclosure, reporting and inspection. We also are, or may be, subject to banking-related regulations in other countries now or in the future related to our role in the financial industry. In addition, based on our relationships with our partner financial institutions in the U.S., we are subject to indirect regulation and examination by these financial institutions’ regulators.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) has significant authority to regulate consumer financial products in the United States, including consumer credit, deposit, payment, and similar products. The CFPB and other similar regulatory agencies in other jurisdictions may have broad consumer protection mandates that could result in the promulgation and interpretation of rules and regulations that may affect our business.

Anti-Money Laundering. PayPal is subject to anti-money laundering (“AML”) laws and regulations in the U.S. and other jurisdictions outside of the U.S. We have implemented a comprehensive AML program designed to prevent our payment network from being used to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit activity, or to do business in countries or with persons and entities included on designated country or person lists promulgated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls (“OFAC”) and equivalent authorities in other countries. Our AML compliance program is comprised of policies, procedures and internal controls, including the designation of a compliance officer, and is designed to address these legal and regulatory requirements and assist in managing money laundering and terrorist financing risks.

Interchange Fees. Interchange fees associated with four-party payments systems are being reviewed or challenged in various jurisdictions. For example, in the European Union, the Multilateral Interchange Fee (“MIF”) Regulation (which we expect to become effective in 2015) caps credit and debit interchange fees for cards payments and provides for business rules to be complied by any company dealing with card transactions, including PayPal. As a result, the fees that we collect in certain jurisdictions may become the subject of regulatory challenge.

Data Protection and Information Security. Aspects of our operations or business are subject to privacy and data protection regulation in the United States, the European Union and elsewhere. For example, in the United States, we are subject to information safeguarding requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that require the maintenance of a written, comprehensive information security program and in Europe, the operations of our Luxembourg bank are subject to information safeguarding requirements under the Luxembourg Banking Act, among other laws. Regulatory authorities around the world are considering numerous legislative and regulatory proposals concerning privacy and data protection. In addition, the interpretation and application of these privacy and data protection laws in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often uncertain and in a state of flux.

Additional Regulatory Developments. Various regulatory agencies also continue to examine a wide variety of issues, including virtual currencies, identity theft, account management guidelines, privacy, disclosure rules, security and marketing that would impact PayPal.

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For an additional discussion on governmental regulation affecting our business, please see the risk factors related to regulation of our payments business and regulation in the areas of consumer privacy, data use and/or security in “Risk Factors —Risk Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Financial Condition” included elsewhere in this Information Statement.

Legal and Regulatory Proceedings

We are involved in legal and regulatory proceedings on an ongoing basis. Many of these proceedings are in early stages, and may seek an indeterminate amount of damages. If we believe that a loss arising from such matters is probable and can be reasonably estimated, we accrue the estimated liability in our financial statements. If only a range of estimated losses can be determined, we accrue an amount within the range that, in our judgment, reflects the most likely outcome; if none of the estimates within that range is a better estimate than any other amount, we accrue the low end of the range. For those proceedings in which an unfavorable outcome is reasonably possible but not probable, we have disclosed an estimate of the reasonably possible loss or range of losses or we have concluded that an estimate of the reasonably possible loss or range arising directly from the proceeding (i.e., monetary damages or amounts paid in judgment or settlement) are not material. If we cannot estimate the probable or reasonably possible loss or range of losses arising from a legal proceeding, we have disclosed that fact. In assessing the materiality of a legal proceeding, we evaluate, among other factors, the amount of monetary damages claimed, as well as the potential impact of non-monetary remedies sought by plaintiffs (e.g., injunctive relief) that may require us to change our business practices in a manner that could have a material adverse impact on our business. With respect to the matters disclosed below, we are unable to estimate the possible loss or range of losses that could potentially result from the application of such non-monetary remedies.

Amounts accrued for legal and regulatory proceedings for which we believe a loss is probable were not material for the year ended December 31, 2014. Except as otherwise noted for the proceedings described below, we have concluded, based on currently available information, that reasonably possible losses arising directly from the proceedings (i.e., monetary damages or amounts paid in judgment or settlement) in excess of our recorded accruals are also not material to PayPal. However, legal and regulatory proceedings are inherently unpredictable and subject to significant uncertainties. If one or more matters were resolved against us in a reporting period for amounts in excess of management’s expectations, the impact on our operating results or financial condition for that reporting period could be material.

Regulatory Proceedings

We routinely report to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) on payments we have rejected or blocked pursuant to OFAC sanctions regulations and on any possible violations of those regulations. We have cooperated with OFAC in recent years regarding our review process over transaction monitoring and have self-reported a large number of small dollar amount transactions that could possibly be in violation of OFAC sanctions regulations. Beginning in September 2014, we have engaged in settlement discussions with OFAC regarding the possible violations arising from our practices between 2009 and 2013 as a result of which we have accrued reserves we believe are adequate to cover any findings of violation. In addition, we continue to cooperate with OFAC regarding more recent self-reported transactions that could also possibly be in violation of OFAC sanctions regulations. Such self-reported transactions could result in claims or actions against us including litigation, injunctions, damage awards or require us to change our business practices that could result in a material loss, require significant management time, result in the diversion of significant operational resources or otherwise harm our business.

On August 7, 2013 and January 13, 2014, eBay, PayPal and certain wholly owned subsidiaries of PayPal received Civil Investigative Demands (“CIDs”) from the CFPB requesting that we provide testimony, produce documents and provide information relating primarily to the acquisition, management, and operation of our PayPal Credit products, including online credit products and services, advertising, loan origination, customer acquisition, servicing, debt collection, and complaints handling practices. The CIDs could lead to an enforcement action and/or one or more significant consent orders, which may result in substantial costs, including legal fees,

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fines, penalties and remediation expenses. We are cooperating with the CFPB in connection with the CIDs and exploring whether we may be able to resolve these inquiries. Resolution of these inquiries could require us to make monetary payments to certain customers, pay fines and/or change the manner in which we operate the PayPal Credit products, which could adversely affect our business.

General Matters

Other third parties have from time to time claimed, and others may claim in the future, that we have infringed their intellectual property rights. We are subject to patent disputes, and expect that we will increasingly be subject to additional patent infringement claims involving various aspects of our business as our products and services continue to expand in scope and complexity. Such claims may be brought directly or indirectly against our companies and/or against our customers (who may be entitled to contractual indemnification under their contracts with us), and we are subject to increased exposure to such claims as a result of our recent acquisitions, particularly in cases where we are entering into new lines of business in connection with such acquisitions. We have in the past been forced to litigate such claims, and we believe that additional lawsuits alleging such claims will be filed against us. Intellectual property claims, whether meritorious or not, are time consuming and costly to defend and resolve, could require expensive changes in our methods of doing business or could require us to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements on unfavorable terms.

From time to time, we are involved in other disputes or regulatory inquiries that arise in the ordinary course of business, including suits by our customers (individually or as class actions) alleging, among other things, improper disclosure of our prices, rules or policies, that our practices, prices, rules, policies or customer/user agreements violate applicable law or that we have acted unfairly and/or not acted in conformity with such prices, rules, policies or agreements. In addition to these types of disputes and regulatory inquiries, our operations are also subject to regulatory and/or legal review and/or challenges that tend to reflect the increasing global regulatory focus to which the payments industry is subject and, when taken as a whole with other regulatory and legislative action, such actions could result in the imposition of costly new compliance burdens on our business and customers and may lead to increased costs and decreased transaction volume and revenue. Further, the number and significance of these disputes and inquiries are increasing as our company has grown larger, our business has expanded in scope (both in terms of the range of products and services that we offer and our geographical operations) and our products and services have increased in complexity. Any claims or regulatory actions against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, damage awards (including statutory damages for certain causes of action in certain jurisdictions), injunctive relief or increased costs of doing business through adverse judgment or settlement, require us to change our business practices in expensive ways, require significant amounts of management time, result in the diversion of significant operational resources or otherwise harm our business.

Our corporate headquarters are located in San Jose, California and occupy approximately 0.7 million of owned square feet.

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Seasonality

The Company does not experience meaningful seasonality. No individual quarter in 2014, 2013 or 2012 accounted for more than 30% of net revenue.

Financial Information About Segments

See “Note 9—Segment and Geographical Information” to the combined financial statements included in this information statement for certain financial information about segments.

Employees

As of December 31, 2014, we employed approximately 15,800 people globally, of whom approximately 9,100 of our employees were located in the U.S. We consider our relationship with employees to be good.

Corporate Information

PayPal was incorporated in Delaware in January 2015 for the purpose of owning and operating eBay’s Payments business in connection with the separation and distribution described herein. Prior to the contribution of this business to PayPal, which will occur immediately prior to the distribution, PayPal will have no operations.

The address of PayPal’s principal executive offices is PayPal Holdings, Inc., 2211 North First Street, San Jose, California 95131. PayPal’s telephone number after the distribution will be [ — ]. PayPal maintains an Internet site at www.[ — ].com . PayPal’s website and the information contained therein or connected thereto shall not be deemed to be incorporated herein, and you should not rely on any such information in making an investment decision.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Please read the following discussion in conjunction with the audited combined financial statements, which are comprised of the payments business of eBay Inc., including PayPal, Inc. and certain other assets and liabilities that have historically been held at the eBay Inc. corporate level, but are specifically identifiable and attributable to the payments business, and corresponding notes, and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements and corresponding notes included elsewhere in this information statement. This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains forward-looking statements. The matters discussed in these forward-looking statements are subject to risk, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied in the forward-looking statements. Please see “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements” for a discussion of the uncertainties, risks and assumptions associated with these statements.

Overview

On September 30, 2014, eBay Inc. (“eBay”) announced its intent to separate its payments business into an independent, publicly-traded company. To accomplish this separation, in January 2015, eBay incorporated PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal Holdings”) which will ultimately become the parent of PayPal, Inc. and will hold directly or indirectly all of the assets and liabilities associated with PayPal, Inc. References to “we,” “our,” “us,” “the Company” or “PayPal” refer to the combined entities of the payments business of eBay, including PayPal, Inc. and certain other assets and liabilities that have been historically held at the eBay corporate level, but are specifically identifiable and attributable to the payments business.

We recorded net income of $419 million in 2014, $955 million in 2013 and $778 million in 2012. The decrease in net income in 2014 was primarily attributable to an increase in income tax expense of $713 million primarily resulting from the recognition of deferred tax liabilities relating to undistributed foreign earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries for 2013 and prior years. We recorded non-GAAP net income of $1.3 billion in 2014, $1.2 billion in 2013 and $1.0 billion in 2012. The increase in non-GAAP net income in 2014 and 2013 was attributable to an increase in operating income in each of these periods.

Net revenues increased 19% in 2014 and 2013. The increase was primarily driven by growth in total payment volume (“TPV”) of 26% in 2014 and 24% in 2013. Operating expenses increased $1.1 billion and $854 million, or 20% and 18% in 2014 and 2013, respectively. The increase was primarily due to an increase in transaction expense, transaction and loan losses, and additional investments in sales and marketing programs and product development initiatives.

Operating income increased $177 million, or 16% in 2014 compared to 2013, and $211 million, or 24% in 2013 compared to 2012. Non-GAAP operating income increased $237 million, or 17%, in 2014 compared to 2013 and 244 million, or 21%, in 2013 compared to 2012. Our non-GAAP operating margin was 21% in 2014, 21% in 2013 and 21% in 2012. Operating income and non-GAAP operating income increased in 2014 and 2013 as a result of the increase in net revenues.

We generated net cash flows from operations of $2.2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2014, compared to $2.0 billion and $1.6 billion for the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. We generated free cash flow of $1.7 billion, $1.6 billion and $1.1 billion in 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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The following table provides a summary of our combined operating results for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012:

Please refer to “Non-GAAP Measures” below for discussion of the items excluded from non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP net income.

Business Environment

We are a leading technology platform company that enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants worldwide. We put our customers at the center of everything we do. We strive to increase our relevance for consumers, merchants, friends and family to manage and move their money anywhere in the world, anytime, on any platform and through any device (e.g., mobile, tablets, personal computers or wearables). We provide safer and simpler ways for businesses of all sizes to accept payments from merchant websites, mobile devices and applications, and at offline retail locations through a wide range of payment solutions across our Payments Platform, including PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree and Venmo products.

We provide merchants and consumers with protection programs on substantially all transactions completed through our Payments Platform, except for transactions using our gateway products. Our gateway products include our Payflow Payments and certain Braintree products. A payment gateway links a merchants website to their processing network and merchant account. Our protection programs protect both merchants and consumers from loss primarily due to fraud and counterparty performance. Our ability to protect both consumers and merchants is based largely on our risk management capabilities, which in turn depend on our ability to leverage the data we collect on transactions and our analytical capabilities. The protections we provide are generally much broader than those protections provided by other participants in the payments industry. We believe that as a result of these programs, consumers can be confident that they will only be required to pay if they receive the product in the condition as described, and that merchants can be confident that they will receive payment for the product that they are delivering to the customer.

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Our Payments Platform and open application programming interfaces (“APIs”) are designed to allow developers to innovate with ease and to offer cutting edge applications to a large ecosystem of merchants and consumers, while at the same time maintaining the security of our customers’ financial information. We provide developers with easy to use, flexible and powerful tools that are designed to leverage our global reach and payment capabilities. Our software developer kits (“SDKs”) are specifically focused on the mobile application market and are designed to remove friction by not requiring a redirect to PayPal.com or an additional login. We are using a true “mobile first” approach to make payments simple and intuitive.

We generated approximately 52% of our 2014 net revenues, 52% of our 2013 net revenues and 51% of our 2012 net revenues from merchants or consumers domiciled outside of the United States. Other than the United States, the United Kingdom was the only country where we generated more than 10% of total net revenues in 2014, 2013 and 2012. During each of these periods, we have also generated more than 10% of total net revenues in the euro zone. Because we have generated substantial net revenues internationally in recent periods, including the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, we are subject to the risks of doing business in foreign countries as discussed under “Risk Factors—Risk Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Financial Condition.” In that regard, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates impact our results of operations. We have a foreign currency risk management program that is designed to reduce our exposure to fluctuations in foreign currencies; however, the effectiveness of this program in mitigating the impact of foreign currency fluctuations on our results of operations varies from period to period, and in any given period, operating results are usually affected, sometimes significantly, by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. We calculate the year-over-year impact of foreign currency movements on our business using prior period foreign currency exchange rates applied to current year transactional currency amounts.

The markets for our products are intensely competitive and are subject to rapid technological change, including but not limited to our products’ ability to complete transactions accurately, safely and quickly on merchant web-sites, within their mobile applications, or in a physical location. Since a large number of merchants accept forms of payment other than PayPal, the use of our product is ultimately a consumer choice. We compete for consumer preference by offering safer and simpler ways to access and move money through any mobile device or personal computer. We face competition from existing online, mobile and offline payment methods.

Our business is subject to regulation in the countries in which we operate, including regulations such as Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) and Know Your Customer (“KYC”) policies. Information security risks for global payments and technology companies have significantly increased in recent years. Although we have not experienced any material impacts relating to cyber-attacks or other information security breaches on our Payments Platform, there can be no assurance that we are immune to these risks and will not suffer such losses in the future. See our risk factor in “Risk Factors—Risk Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Financial Condition” related to a failure or breach of our security systems or infrastructure as a result of cyber-attacks.

Impact of Foreign Currency Rates

We have significant operations internationally that are denominated in foreign currencies, primarily the Euro, British Pound, and Australian Dollar, subjecting us to foreign currency risk which may adversely impact our financial results. The strengthening or weakening of the U.S. dollar versus the Euro, British Pound and Australian Dollar impacts the translation of our net revenues generated in these foreign currencies into the U.S. dollar. In 2014, foreign currency movements relative to the U.S. dollar negatively impacted net revenues by approximately $25 million (inclusive of a $36 million negative impact from hedging activities). In 2013, foreign currency movements relative to the U.S. dollar negatively impacted net revenues by approximately $8 million (inclusive of a $4 million negative impact from hedging activities). Additionally, in connection with our services in multiple currencies, we set our foreign exchange rates twice per day, and may face financial exposure if we incorrectly set our foreign exchange rates or as a result of fluctuations in foreign exchange rates between the times that we set our foreign exchange rates. Given that we also hold some corporate and customer funds in

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non-U.S. currencies, our financial results are affected by the translation of these non-U.S. currencies into U.S. dollars. While from time to time we enter into transactions to hedge portions of our foreign currency translation exposure, it is impossible to predict or eliminate the effects of this exposure. Fluctuations in foreign exchange rates could significantly impact our financial results.

Financial Results

Net revenues

Revenue Description

We earn revenue from the following types of transactions:

Transaction revenues are generated primarily from fees charged to merchants on the volume of activity we enable (“Total Payments Volume” or “TPV”). We define TPV as the value of payments, net of payment reversals, successfully completed through our Payments Platform, excluding transactions processed through our gateway products. Our Payments Platform includes PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo and Braintree products. Growth in TPV is also directly impacted by the payment transactions that we enable on our payments platform. Payment transactions is the total number of payments, net of payment reversals, successfully completed through our Payments Platform, excluding transactions processed through our gateway products. We earn additional fees on transactions settled in foreign currencies when we enable cross-border transactions. We also earn interest and related fees on receivables from consumers and merchants that use our PayPal Credit products.

Our revenues can be significantly impacted by the following:

Net revenues analysis

The significant components of our net revenue for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 were as follows:

The increase in transaction revenues in 2014 and 2013 was primarily based on the growth in TPV and the total number of payment transactions on our Payments Platform.

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The following table provides a summary of our active customer accounts, number of payment transactions and TPV:

The growth in TPV was driven largely by the increase in the number of payment transactions and active customer accounts in 2014 and 2013. The growth in transaction revenues was lower than the growth in TPV and growth in payment transactions due to a higher portion of TPV generated by large merchants who generally pay lower rates on higher transaction volume. We define large merchants as merchants who have generated TPV greater than $1.2 million in the last 12 months. The impact of increases or decreases in prices charged to our customers did not significantly impact revenue growth in 2014 or 2013.

Net revenues from other value-added services increased by 25% and 16% in 2014 and 2013, respectively. The increases were primarily due to interest and fee income earned on loans receivable outstanding from consumers that used our PayPal Credit products as a funding source. The total loans receivable balance as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 was $3.6 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively, reflecting a year over year increase of 29%. In 2013, the increase in interest and fee income was offset by a decrease in revenue share we earn through partnerships and a decrease in net revenues from other services that we provide to consumers and merchants.

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Transaction expense

Transaction expense is primarily comprised of the costs we incur to accept a customer’s funding source of payment. These costs include fees paid to payment processors and other financial institutions in order to draw funds from a customer’s credit or debit card, bank account or other funding source they have stored in their digital wallet. Transaction expense also includes interest expense on borrowings incurred to finance our portfolio of loans receivable arising from our PayPal Credit funding option. We refer to the allocation of funding sources used by our consumers as our “funding mix.” The cost of funding a transaction with a credit card is generally more costly than the cost of funding a transaction from a bank or through internal sources such as a PayPal account balance or PayPal Credit. As we expand the availability of alternative funding sources to our customers, a change in funding mix can increase or decrease our transaction expense rate. For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, approximately 2% of TPV was funded with PayPal Credit.

The increase of $335 million or 18% in transaction expense in 2014 compared to 2013, and the increase of $317 million or 21% in 2013 compared to 2012 is predominantly attributable to an increase in TPV. Our transaction expense rates in 2014 compared to 2013, and in 2013 compared to 2012 have improved due to a favorable funding mix and a larger share of TPV in countries where we pay lower rates for transactions funded with credit cards than in the U.S. In addition, as our technology platform has continued to expand, we are more cost efficient in enabling global payments. For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, approximately 48%, 48% and 46% of TPV was outside of the U.S. From time to time, payment card networks have increased, and may increase in the future, the interchange fees and assessments that they charge for each transaction which accesses their networks. Our payment card processors have the right to pass any increases in interchange fees and assessments on to us as well as increase their own fees for processing. Such changes in interchange fees and assessments could increase our transaction expense. Interest expense on borrowings incurred to finance our portfolio of loans receivable, included in Transaction expense, was $7 million, $14 million and $12 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

Transaction and loan losses

Transaction losses include the expense associated with our customer protection programs, fraud, and chargebacks. Loan losses include the losses associated with our loans receivable balances. We expect our transaction and loan losses to fluctuate depending on many factors, including TPV, macroeconomic conditions, the extent of our customer protection programs, the impact of regulatory changes, and the credit quality of loans receivable arising from transactions funded with our PayPal Credit products. Additionally, we recover certain amounts from eBay related to customer protection programs offered on eligible eBay purchases made with PayPal. These amounts include the transaction losses associated with customer claims and are included as a reduction of transaction and loan losses in the combined statement of income. Our transaction losses may be impacted by any modifications to this arrangement with eBay following our separation.

The increase of $144 million or 29% in transaction and loan losses in 2014 compared to 2013, and the increase of $137 million or 38% in 2013 compared to 2012 are predominantly attributable to higher TPV and loan losses. Loan losses relating to our loans receivable portfolio were $239 million in 2014, $194 million in 2013 and $134 million in 2012, reflecting an increase of 23% in 2014 compared to 2013, and an increase of 45% in 2013 compared to 2012. The increase in loan losses is due to growth in the portfolio of loans receivable outstanding arising from consumers

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who chose PayPal Credit as a funding option. The total loans receivable balance as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 was $3.6 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively, reflecting a year over year increase of 29% in each year. The following table provides information regarding the credit quality of a pool of consumer loans and interest receivable balance:

Our transaction and loan loss rates did not fluctuate significantly between 2014 and 2013. Our transaction and loan loss rates increased between 2013 and 2012 primarily due to the increase in losses relating to our loans receivable portfolio. Modifications to our PayPal Credit products acceptable risk parameters during those periods did not have a material impact on our loan losses.

Recoveries associated with transaction losses incurred on eligible eBay purchases during the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 were $43 million, $48 million and $36 million, respectively.

Customer support and operations

Customer support and operations expenses include costs incurred to provide 24-hour call support to our customers, our site operations and other infrastructure costs incurred to support our Payments Platform, costs to support our trust and security programs protecting our merchants and consumers and other costs incurred in our operations centers. Customer support and operations costs increased by $105 million, or 11%, in 2014 compared to 2013 and by $136 million, or 17%, in 2013 compared to 2012. The increase was predominantly related to an increase in headcount to service our growing number of active customer accounts and the growth in the number of payment transactions occurring on our Payments Platform.

Sales and marketing

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of customer acquisition, business development, advertising, marketing programs, and employee compensation and contractor costs to support these programs. Sales and marketing expenses increased by $207 million, or 26%, in 2014 compared to 2013. Sales and marketing expense increased by $129 million, or 19%, in 2013 compared to 2012. The increase in sales and marketing expenses in 2014 and 2013 was due primarily to higher spend to support our strategic initiatives. In 2014, we redesigned our PayPal logo and made significant investments in campaigns designed to enhance our global brand recognition and drive consumer engagement.

Product development

Product development expenses consist primarily of employee compensation and contractor costs that are incurred in connection with the development of our Payments Platform, new products and the improvement of our existing products. Product development expenses exclude software and website development costs that are capitalized. The amortization of developed technology is included in depreciation and amortization expense.

Product development expenses increased by $163 million, or 22%, in 2014 compared to 2013 and by $50 million, or 7%, in 2013 compared to 2012. The increase was due primarily to investments in our Payments Platform, creating new mobile experiences for our customers and supporting our strategic initiatives. The acquisition of Braintree also impacted the growth in product development expenses in 2014 compared to 2013.

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General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs incurred to provide support to our business, including legal, human resources, finance, executive and other support operations. Our legal expenses, including those related to various ongoing legal proceedings, may fluctuate substantially from period to period.

These combined financial statements include expenses associated with workplace resources and information technology that were previously allocated to the Payments segment of eBay, and, additional expenses related to certain corporate functions, including senior management, legal, human resources and finance. These expenses also include allocations related to share based compensation. The expenses that were incurred by eBay have been allocated to us based on direct usage or benefit where identifiable, with the remainder allocated on a pro rata basis of revenue, headcount, or other systematic measure. The corporate costs and allocation of expenses from eBay may not be indicative of the expenses that may have been incurred had we been a separate stand-alone entity during the periods presented, nor are the results stated herein indicative of the expenses we may incur in the future. Such expenses could be higher or lower. In the periods presented, a significant portion of expenses associated with these functions and allocated to us in our combined financial statements are included in general and administrative expenses.

General and administrative expenses increased $104 million, or 28%, in 2014 compared to 2013 and $33 million, or 10%, in 2013 compared to 2012. In 2014, $207 million of corporate costs and expenses allocated to us were included in general and administrative expenses representing an increase of $24 million, or 13% compared to 2013. In 2013, $183 million of corporate costs and expenses allocated to us were included in general and administrative expenses representing an increase of $15 million, or 9% compared to 2012. In 2014 and 2013, the remaining increase in general and administrative expenses related primarily to higher employee-related costs, including those related to our separation.

Depreciation and Amortization

The primary components of our depreciation and amortization expenses include the depreciation of software, including our technology platform, equipment used to deliver our services and the amortization of acquired intangible assets. Depreciation and amortization expenses increased $63 million, or 14%, in 2014 compared to 2013 and $71 million, or 19%, in 2013 compared to 2012. The increases in 2014 and 2013 were predominantly due to additional depreciation expenses associated with investments in our technology platforms. Amortization expense for acquired intangible assets was $84 million, $70 million and $67 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 respectively. The increase in amortization of acquired intangibles in 2014 was due primarily to our acquisition of Braintree in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Income Tax Expense

Our effective tax rate was 67% in 2014 compared to 12% in 2013. The increase in our effective tax rate during 2014 compared to 2013 was due primarily to the recognition during the year of a U.S. deferred tax liability of approximately $650 million on $1.9 billion of undistributed foreign earnings of certain of our foreign subsidiaries for 2013 and prior years. See “Note 13—Income Taxes” to the combined financial statements included in this report for more information on our effective tax rate.

Our effective tax rate was 12% in 2013 compared to 13% in 2012. The decrease in our effective tax rate during 2013 was due primarily to re-enactment of the federal research and development credit retroactive to January 1, 2012 during the first quarter of 2013.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

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requirements of Regulation S-K, portions of this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” include a reconciliation of certain non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. The presentation of non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the Company’s related financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.

We present non-GAAP financial measures to enhance an investor’s evaluation of our ongoing operating results and to facilitate meaningful comparison of our results between periods. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to, among other things, evaluate our ongoing operations, for internal planning and forecasting purposes and in the calculation of performance-based compensation.

We exclude the following items from non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP earnings per diluted share, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP effective tax rate:

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In addition to the non-GAAP measures discussed above, the company also uses free cash flow to assess our operating performance. Free cash flow represents operating cash flows less purchases of property and equipment. The company considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property, buildings, equipment and including investments in our Payments Platform, which can then be used to, among other things, invest in the company’s business, make strategic acquisitions, and repurchase stock. A limitation of the utility of free cash flow as a measure of financial performance is that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in the company’s cash balance for the period.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

We require liquidity and access to capital to fund our global operations, customer protection programs, provide credit to customers that fund transactions using our PayPal Credit product, capital expenditures, investments in our business, potential acquisitions and current and future obligations. The following table summarizes the cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investment balances available as of December 31, 2014:

Cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments held by our foreign subsidiaries (i.e., any entities where earnings would be subject to United States tax upon repatriation) were $2.0 billion and $1.8 billion at December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, or 90% and 91% of our total cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments as of such dates.

We strive to protect consumers and merchants from fraudulent transactions. The risk of losses from these protection programs are specific to individual customers, merchants and transactions, and may also be impacted by regional variations to these programs and modifications to the program resulting from changes to regulatory requirements. For the periods presented in the combined financial statements, payments under these protections have ranged between 0.08% and 0.12% of TPV. Historical trends may not be an indication of the future. In addition, we recovered certain amounts from eBay related to our customer protection programs offered on eligible eBay purchases made with PayPal. These costs include the transaction losses associated with customer claims and are included as a reduction of transaction and loan losses. Changes in our arrangement with eBay could impact our transaction and loan losses.

To the extent that our PayPal Credit products become more widely available, any resulting growth in the portfolio of loan receivables would increase our liquidity needs and any failure to meet those liquidity needs could adversely affect our business. We currently fund the expansion of our PayPal Credit loans receivable with borrowings from eBay and domestic and international cash resources. We have considered alternative sources of funding and will continue to do so in the future.

Our liquidity and access to capital could be impacted by our credit rating, financial performance, and global credit market conditions. We are working with credit rating agencies to obtain separate credit ratings and believe that immediately following separation we will be rated investment grade. In addition, our liquidity and access to capital could also be negatively impacted by the outcome of any of the legal or regulatory proceedings to which we are a party. See “Risk Factors—Risk Factors That May Affect Our Business, Results of Operations and Financial Condition” and “Note 10—Commitments and Contingencies” to the combined financial statements for additional discussion of these and other risks facing our business.

In June 2014, we agreed, subject to certain conditions, that we, one of our affiliates or a third party partner will purchase a portfolio of consumer loan receivables relating to the customer accounts arising out of our current credit program agreement with Synchrony (formerly GE Capital Retail Bank) for a price based on the book value of the consumer loan receivables portfolio at the time of the purchase (expected to be Q4 2016), subject to certain adjustments and exclusions. As of December 31, 2014, Synchrony had a net receivables portfolio under the credit program agreement of approximately $1.5 billion.

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We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, available-for-sale investments, cash expected to be generated from operations, cash expected to be provided from eBay, our expected access to capital markets, together with funding through our strategic and financial partners will be sufficient to fund our operating activities, anticipated capital expenditures, and PayPal Credit portfolio for the foreseeable future.

Operating Activities

We generated cash from operating activities of $2.2 billion, $2.0 billion and $1.6 billion in 2014, 2013 and 2012, due primarily to operating income of $1.3 billion, $1.1 billion, and $880 million, respectively. We also recorded non-cash charges in operating income related to transaction and loan losses, depreciation and amortization, and stock-based compensation that contributed to net cash provided by operating activities.

Cash paid for income taxes in 2014, 2013 and 2012 was $47 million, $28 million and $38 million, respectively.

Investing Activities

The net cash used in investing activities of $1.5 billion in 2014 was due primarily to increases in our loan receivable portfolio (net of collections) originated through our PayPal Credit products of $1.0 billion and purchases of property and equipment of $492 million.

The net cash used in investing activities of $1.7 billion in 2013 was due primarily to increases in our loan receivable portfolio (net of collections) originated through our PayPal Credit products of $793 million, cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired) of $731 million, and net cash paid for purchases and sales of investments of $290 million.

The net cash used in investing activities of $1.5 billion in 2012 was due primarily to increases in our loan receivable portfolio (net of collections and charge-offs) originated through our PayPal Credit products of $740 million, purchases of property and equipment, of $511 million and net cash outflows relating to receivables from eBay of $168 million.

Financing Activities

The net cash used in financing activities of $51 million in 2014, $85 million in 2013 and $210 million in 2012 was due primarily to net cash outflows relating to repayments of borrowings from eBay.

Free Cash Flow

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expenditures. The company defines free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment, including the investment in software. Free cash flow was $1.7 billion in 2014, an increase of $126 million from 2013. The increase was primarily due to an increase in deferred income taxes of $628 million, partially offset by a decrease in net income. Free cash flow was $1.6 billion in 2013, an increase of $548 million from 2012. The increase in 2013 was due primarily to an increase in net income of $177 million, an increase in the accrual for transaction and loan losses of $137 million and a decrease of $120 million in purchases of property and equipment. The increase in free cash flow in 2014 was used to fund our increase in loans to consumers and merchants. The increase in free cash flow in 2013 was used towards the acquisition of Braintree in December of 2013.

Effect of Exchange Rates on Cash

The negative effect of currency exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents during 2014 of $26 million was due to the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against certain foreign currencies, primarily the Euro. There was minimal impact of currency exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents during 2013 and 2012.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

PayPal has no off-balance sheet debt, other than lease arrangements and other commitments as presented in the Future Obligations table that follows.

eBay Inc. has a cash pooling arrangement with a financial institution for cash management purposes. We participate in this arrangement, which allows for cash withdrawals from this financial institution based upon eBay’s aggregate operating cash balances within the same financial institution (“Aggregate Cash Deposits”). This arrangement also allows eBay to withdraw amounts exceeding the Aggregate Cash Deposits up to an agreed-upon limit. The net balance of the withdrawals and the Aggregate Cash Deposits are used by the financial institution as a basis for calculating eBay’s net interest expense or income. As of December 31, 2014, PayPal had $1.6 billion relating to cash held in this pooling arrangement.

Future Liquidity and Obligations

Following the separation, our capital structure and sources of liquidity will differ from our historical capital structure. Please refer to the “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements” included elsewhere in this information statement for discussion of the anticipated post-distribution capital structuring, including an anticipated cash distribution to PayPal from eBay. Post separation, we will no longer participate in cash management and intercompany funding arrangements with eBay. Our ability to fund our capital needs will depend on our ability to access our cash and investment portfolio, generate cash from operations, and access capital markets. The following table summarizes our obligations as of December 31, 2014 that are expected to impact liquidity and cash flow in future periods. We believe we will be able to fund these obligations through our existing cash and investment portfolio and cash expected to be generated from operations.