Online payments provider PayPal Australia Pty. Limited has announced the appointment of Frerk-Malte Feller as its new managing director, effective immediately.
“I am delighted to be joining the Australian team to provide strategic direction at a time when there is great demand for PayPal to help grow online shopping in Australia,” said Malte. “My main priority is to continue to provide PayPal’s more than five million Australian customer accounts and 18,000 merchant partners with a secure and innovative online payments solution to facilitate safe, global e-commerce.”
Malte takes over the role from Dinuke Ranasinghe, acting managing director since March 2009. Dinuke was PayPal Australia’s first employee and has now moved into a regional role as head of product for Asia-Pacific. He will be based in Singapore. Read more…
PayPal Australia, a leading global online payment service, today launched a new partner programme to reward partners for doing business with PayPal. For the first time, partners that integrate PayPal within their e-commerce and web solutions can qualify for member, gold or platinum partner status to receive special benefits and financial incentives, which vary by tier.
The new partner programme supports partners that offer PayPal-enabled solutions via revenue-share opportunities, referral incentives and a certification programme. Partners can also access the latest PayPal marketing, product and educational resources via the new PayPal partner portal www.paypal.com.au/partnerprogram.
“Our partners’ success contributes to PayPal’s success so we’ve launched this programme to deliver more value to the partner community,” said Glenn Lim, PayPal’s general manager of global alliances and vertical markets.
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IT News and eCommerce Report have reported on the launch of the Australian PayPal developer program. It’s the first market outside of the United States to be included in the developer program.
The program includes free technical tools and resources, PayPal developer certification and developer days to be held in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth later this month.
Spiro Rokos, PayPal’s senior manager of technical engineering, said it would help Australians tap into revenue opportunities.
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