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PayPal bans Gab
Following the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PayPal banned the use of Gab, the social media platform where the suspect posted anti-Semitic messages.
Though the PayPal ban occurred the day of the shooting, many other companies banned Gab much earlier,
Stripe is also weighing a ban, while Gab's hosting provider Joyent suspended its service for Gab on Monday,
Preparing to dump cash
Sweden is building a framework for the e-krona, a digital currency that will help the county manage the decline of cash with the need to support state-guaranteed payments.
The proposed currency will be able to be held in an account at the Riksbank, stored on a card or in a mobile app.
Cheap servers
Reprise Hosting is adding Alipay as a payment option for its line of hosted "cheap" dedicated servers.
Seattle-based Reprise reports increased interest in its servers from Chinese consumers, which lead it to add the Chinese payment app. About 20 percent of Reprise's clients are based in China.
Alipay is also part of a planned expansion deeper into China at Reprise, which is adding a Mandarin site and technical support in the coming months.
That sealbag will cost you extra
The bank's new
For example, the bank will increase the fee for depositing cash with a sealbag. But it won't increase fees for ATM deposits, because the cash is counted by the ATM. Also, fees for a "certain number" of online services will also go up, because these fees have not been increased in several years, the bank said in a release.
Gupta has more than 35 years experience in India's payments industry with roles at SBI and NPCI. His appointment comes as
"Having been part of the banking and payments industry for close to four decades, I've been fortunate to experience the disruption and growth that the Indian economy has witnessed promoting digital payments," Gupta said in a press release.
From the Web
CCN | Sat October 27, 2018 - Germany central bank Deutsche Bundesbank, and Deutsche Börse have announced the successful completion of a performance test for two prototype blockchain-based securities settlement systems which they developed jointly. It was revealed that the prototype systems support settlement of regular payments, interest payments, securities transactions and repayment when bonds achieve maturity.
South China Morning Post | Sun October 28, 2018 - Cathay Pacific Airways and IT experts have warned passengers to guard against dubious cyber links, as they expected phishing activities to surge following the massive data leak. The city’s flagship carrier revealed belatedly on Wednesday night that the data of 9.4 million passengers had been illegally accessed, despite the breach being detected in March and confirmed in early May.
CCN | Fri October 26, 2018 - Central banks maintain their distance from Bitcoin but have shown interests in issuing their private digital currencies. And a new IBM-OMFIF survey revealed how this future financial infrastructure would appear. The study found that central banks are increasingly adopting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). A clear overview revealed that banks were initially reluctant in taking the said technological leap.
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