From "add on" to being the platform. Via Finextra paypal's CEO Schulman: "Our vision for PayPal is to be the world's leading open digital payments platform. What that means is [...]
A year ago, in march 2013, the US Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) published a paper FIN-2013-G001 on crypto currency defacto regulating bitcoin in the US [...]
(2 minutes reading time) Since having spend some early years of my professional life in a technical wholesale company I have been following the incredible developments of Amazon with great [...]
A long time friend who had just returned from a business trip to the USA to discuss various business development opportunities on two sides of the big point. He was wondering why certain types of innovation are typically initiated in the USA and not in the EU (or ROW). He pointed at PayPal as an example. I think I understand where his question is coming from and at first glance would agree to the gut feel expressed with this question that the conditions in the EU for innovation especially in payments are less favourable. But once you start thinking about it various inroads are possible:
(3 minutes reading time) When electronic wallets are discussed between people within the payments industry there always seems to be one big white elephant in the room: Apple. Intuitively many [...]
(4 minutes reading time) Basically we only know a few things about Clinkle. Firstly it is a payments start-up based in San-Francisco promising “something that’s fundamentally different from everything else [...]
Payments are about the logistics to transfer money (value) from one to an other. Governments have long tried to control the mechanisms to pay as payments are an important part [...]
Whether Bitcoin will hit the mainstream still remains to be seen, but if it wants to it has to become much more easy to be set up and used. Setting [...]
The traditional point-of-sale (POS) payments terminal resides physically at the counter-top of the merchant. The terminal it self is a dedicated device where the hardware and software are bundled together [...]
Een tijdje geleden laadde ik Bitcoins op mijn wallet d.m.v. een paypal betaling. Toen ik vandaag nieuwe Bitcoins wilde kopen kon ik via mijn portemonnee op blockchain.info bitcoins aanschaffen via [...]
[translation original post] Bitcoins are like digital paper banknotes without the paper (NB Paper banknotes are numbered, coins are not numbered, bitcoins ARE numbers). An oxymoron seemingly, but it is [...]
