India’s digital payments company Paytm said it got new funding from its shareholders but also some new investors. SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, Ant Financial and Discovery Capital will, therefore, together with new investors advised by T. Rowe Price Group Inc. fund Paytm to get it in front of its competitors as the country’s finance sector is slightly beginning to grill.From Ant Financial they said they have been searching for investment opportunities in Southeast Asia in order to...
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We live in a paradoxical world in that it is both expanding and shrinking at the same time. The rise of high-speed internet allows us to instantly communicate across the globe, stream movies and TV shows, shop from the comfort of our couch, dig through the archives of famous museums and libraries, and watch events in other countries unfold in real-time. The flip-side of such openness is that a small number of corporations are increasing their stranglehold on how we live our lives. As such,...
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Coinspeaker Larger Bearish Sentiment Sees Bitcoin Tumbling to a Lower Handle Despite the fact that the crypto community has a number of good news, Bitcoin price is still moving down. Larger Bearish Sentiment Sees Bitcoin Tumbling to a Lower Handle Continue reading at Coinspeaker
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Coinspeaker PayPal Announces Acquisition of Honey Science Corporation PayPal has announced that they reached an agreement for acquiring Honey, the money-saving browser extension and app. PayPal Announces Acquisition of Honey Science Corporation Continue reading at Coinspeaker
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Read More »HODLer: PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Admits That He Owns Bitcoin
The CEO of PayPal, one of the world’s largest and most established online payment processors, has revealed in an interview that he owns Bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies. He also talked about Libra and why his company decides to withdraw from the project.PayPal’s CEO Owns BitcoinIn a recent interview with Fortune, the CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, shared his views on cryptocurrencies and revealed interesting insights about the work his company is doing in the field.He said that there is a...
Read More »YСombinator’s Crypto Compliance Startup Raises $4.2M from Investors Including Paypal Ventures
A San Francisco -based startup TRM Labs, which emerged from YCombinator and looks at blockchain analysis as a tool for the ensuring of compliance, has received $4.2 Million in funding from various investors that included PayPal Ventures. The big problem with compliance for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology is that most banks and financial institutions would rather not deal with the intricacies and the technological hoops which they would have to leap through before they get a clear...
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Die Bank of America hat beschlossen, das Bankkonto von Roelof Botha, einem der besten Risikokapitalgeber der Welt und ehemaligen CFO von PayPal, zu schließen. Roelof Botha gehört eigentlich zu den Personen, um die sich Banken streiten müssten. Für die Bank of America trifft dies scheinbar nicht zu. So wird man einen Kunden los und zukünftig eventuell noch weitere. After being a customer of...
Read More »Bank of America Shuts Down PayPal ex-Executive’s Account
An ex Paypal official complained that Bank of America has notified him of shutting down his account soon without any explanation given. Actually, the bank did say it “carefully reviewed his banking relationship”, whatever that supposed to mean. Former Paypal’s CFO Roleof Botha said he was utterly surprised when he saw the notification about closing down his account. And, not just that, Bank of America was so kind so it gave Botha 30 days to “take his money and run”.After being a customer of...
Read More »Won’t Happen With Bitcoin: Bank of America Shuts Down Ex-PayPal CFO’s Bank Account
One of the largest US banking institutions, the Bank of America, has recently decided to close the account of the former CFO of PayPal. The decision came without an explanation, despite the fact that he had been a client for over 20 years. Needless to say, Bitcoin’s censorship-resistant nature is one of the things that bring it up as a viable alternative in scenarios of the kind.Bank Of America Shuts Down An AccountThe former CFO of PayPal and current partner at Sequoia, Roelof Botha, shared...
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