FinTech

Bitcoin has been doing extremely well for the past nine months. The currency really came to fruition during the initial time of the coronavirus pandemic, and it has been on a serious roll ever since, recently striking a new high of roughly $56,000 per unit. However, despite all the glitz and glam the currency has been attaining, financial giant JPMorgan believes that it’s fintech and not bitcoin or crypto that has garnered true recognition during the time of COVID....

At the time of writing, bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – has surged to a new all-time high, having broken $50,000 and now trading for just over $51,000. To be fair, the asset has done this once or twice in the past, but it was always followed by a quick drop to the high $48,000 range, suggesting that bitcoin either didn’t have the momentum we all thought it did yet, or the change happened way too fast.Bitcoin Has Shot Up AgainBitcoin has shown in previous...

Bei Paypal fand ein Investorentag statt. Dabei hat CEO Dan Schulman nicht nur die nächsten Schritte zum Ausbau des boomenden Bitcoin-Ausbau angedeutet. PayPal plant eine neue Smartphone-Anwendung. Die sogenannte „Super-App“ soll Investitions-Optionen für Aktien und andere Vermögenswerte bieten und den Kryptohandel weiter ausbauen. Als Orientierung für PayPal 2.0 dienen...

Ever since Tesla purchased more than $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin last week, many more large-scale companies are getting the confidence they need to either examine bitcoin payments or invest in the currency outright. The latest major firm to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon is driving service Uber, which says that it’s considering allowing BTC payments in the future.Uber Is Hopping Aboard the Bitcoin TrainThe idea of bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments has been something of a conundrum over the...

PayPal will probably avert from investing its cash into Bitcoin. Despite the recently expanding interest from institutions in digital assets, the US payment giant will not get into the crypto whirlpool, said the firm’s Chief Financial Officer.Admitting Cryptocurrency’s Values but Still Won’t InvestAlthough it sees enormous opportunity in the development of digital wallets, PayPal will most likely not allocate portions of its cash into Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. According to a recent...

Visa – one of the largest credit card companies in the world – has announced plans to roll out cryptocurrency-buying services soon.Visa Is Working to Make Crypto the Future of MoneyOver the years, the credit card firm has become one of bitcoin’s biggest supporters despite not thinking much of digital assets for a time. Since then, however, it has forged relationships with approximately 35 separate bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related firms and hopes to make it so that digital currency can take...

Man denkt immer, PayPal sei ein Internet Startup. In Tat und Wahrheit macht PayPal mehr Umsatz als Mastercard! Just sayin' Der Anbieter für Zahlungen PayPal steigt nun big in den Handel mit Kryptowährungen ein. Die Kunden aus den USA können in Zukunft über die Plattform PayPal Bitcoin und weitere Kryptowährungen verkaufen, kaufen und diese aufbewahren. Ab dem Jahr 2021 soll es nun möglich sein, bei Händlern über PayPal mit diesen...

In a Q4 2020 investor update, PayPal revealed that it recorded fourth-quarter and fiscal year financial results that were far beyond its expectations. The company noted that it was its strongest fiscal year, with high payment volume and new accounts further strengthening its scale.PayPal recorded a massive surge in the number of active accounts on its platform, with a whopping 16 million active accounts in Q4 2020 alone. For fiscal 2020, the company added 72.7 million net new active accounts,...

Visa, the world’s leading payment processor with millions of merchants in its network and hundreds of millions of users, might add cryptocurrencies to its payments network.Visa Jumps on the Crypto BandwagonVisa, the multinational financial services corporation, might be joining the cryptocurrency bandwagon.In the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2021 earning call, the CEO of the company, Al Kelly, said that they are in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful, and applicable.”In...

Der Schweizer Markt gehört zu den am schnellsten wachsenden Märkten von Revolut in Europa. zusammen mit Ländern wie Italien, Portugal, Irland, Rumänien und Polen. Revolut beantragt eine Banklizenz. Der britische Konto- und Kartenanbieter will künftig auch klassische Bankdienstleistungen wie Kredite und Sparbücher anbieten und möchte daher seine bisherige E-Geld-Lizenz...