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  • PayPal launches cryptocurrency services for UK customers

    August 23, 2021

    Online payments giant PayPal has announced its UK customers will be able to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies using its platform. In an update being rolled out this week customers will be able to acquire a selection of four crypto currencies – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash – using their Paypal accounts. Users will [...]

  • PayPal ditches late fees for buy now pay later purchases

    August 18, 2021

    PayPal will stop charging late fees when customers miss payments on buy now, pay later (BNPL) purchases worldwide, in an effort to attract customers amid booming market competition. As of October 1, purchases from customers in the US, UK and France will no longer be subject to late fees, while the company’s BNPL services in [...]

  • Exclusive: Rising fintech star and former PayPal tech lead on his new payments venture

    July 8, 2021

    Wise £8bn launch on the London Stock Exchange yesterday underpins how the capital’s fintech scene is booming, with a clear investor appetite for payment platforms such as Wise. Another fintech company in this space that has flourished in the last twelve months is Osu, an instant payments app that was created specifically for the self-employed [...]

  • Twitter launches ‘tip jar’ to let users send money to favourite accounts

    May 7, 2021

    Twitter has launched a new “tip jar” feature which will allow people to send money to others on the site. To begin with, only a select group of people will be able to receive tips, including journalists, experts and content creators. The social media giant says the feature is “an easy way to support the [...]

  • PayPal to allow US customers to use cryptocurrencies in online shopping

    March 30, 2021

    PayPal is set to allow its US customers to use their cryptocurrency assets to pay online, a move that may signal a shift towards digital currencies for online shopping. Formally announcing the move later today, PayPal will allow customers to convert bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin into fiat currencies at checkouts, the company told [...]

  • Paypal profit surges as it cashes in on online shopping boom

    February 3, 2021

    Paypal posted a surge in profit in the fourth quarter as the Covid-19 pandemic sparked a sharp rise in online shopping. The payments processor posted net profit of $1.6bn (£1.2bn) for the last three months of 2020, up 209 per cent on the same period the year before. It came on revenue of $6.1bn, which [...]

  • Mastercard and Visa join Paypal and others in abandoning Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project

    October 12, 2019

    Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe have all pulled out of Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, Libra. It comes a week Paypal announced they were withdrawing from Libra and is a huge blow to the social network’s plans to launch what it envisioned as a global currency. Read more: Paypal become first firm to drop out of Facebook’s [...]

  • Paypal first firm to drop out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

    October 5, 2019

    Paypal has pulled out of an alliance attempting to launch Facebook’s digital currency Libra. The payment firm announced its decision on Friday in a statement but did not reveal why the decision has been made. The cryptocurrency and its digital wallet, Calibra, were revealed by Facebook in June. Read more: Libra co-founder hits out at [...]

  • Nigel Farage attacks Electoral Commission as ‘full of Remainers’ after review of his party’s funding

    May 21, 2019

    Nigel Farage has launched a blistering attack on the elections watchdog after it began a review into his new party’s finances. Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, claimed the Electoral Commission is “absolutely full of Remainers” and is part of an “establishment” attack on his new outfit. On Monday, former Prime Minster Gordon Brown called for an [...]

  • Why Airbnb, Paypal and Spotify are paying hackers to break their security

    May 2, 2019

    Top global chief executives have willingly forked out more than $50m (£38m) to hackers amid growing concerns about cybersecurity threats. Bosses have paid so-called ethical hackers to help tighten up their cyber defences in a bid to avoid expensive and embarrassing data breaches. Read more: Government to roll out new cybersecurity laws for IoT products [...]

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