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For now, PayPal's crypto payments are more about satisfying regulators than providing users with crypto capabilities. Earlier today, PayPal confirmed that it would be adding crypto payments to its global platform over coming months. The rollout will begin in the United States, where PayPal also became the first recipient of the New York Department of Financial Services' (NYDFS) conditional Bitlicense, a program that the regulator announced this past summer. The devil in the detailsWhile the news is huge for crypto, PayPal will be under intense scrutiny. The nature of the conditional....
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Paypal’s cryptocurrency services are coming to the United Kingdom, as the digital payments giant is now targeting non-U.S. countries. Buy, sell and hold digital asset products could be available for Paypal’s U.K. customers in “a number of months.” Results With the Paypal Crypto Services Have ‘Exceeded’ Expectations in the US During Paypal’s Investor Day 2021 event, Jonathan Auerbach, executive chief strategy and growth officer at the digital payments firm, unveiled plans of deploying the crypto services in the region. According to the executive,....
Financial services companies Paypal and Western Union have each filed three new trademark applications covering a wide range of crypto services. Paypal’s applications are also for the payments giant’s logo.
Paypal’s New Trademark Filings for Crypto Services
Paypal Inc. has filed three new trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Mike Kondoudis, a USPTO-licensed trademark attorney, tweeted Monday:
Paypal has filed trademark applications for Paypal and its ‘overlapping Ps’ logo. The apps claim plans....
Payment processing giant Paypal announced on Thursday that “all eligible Paypal account holders in the U.S. can now buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly with Paypal.” The news follows the company’s announcement to support crypto assets at the end of October. Paypal’s New Relationship With Crypto Assets On October 21, 2020, the payment firm Paypal announced that it would soon support bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH), and litecoin (LTC). The company said the Paypal customers would be able to buy, sell, and hold the virtual assets. On November....
PayPal has some interesting feelings towards bitcoin. Apparently, while the currency itself shouldn't be up for regulation, businesses that deal in it should. The company made a submission to the Australian Senate committee investigating the regulation of digital currencies that calls for the recognition of differences between digital currencies, and the companies that facilitate digital currency transactions. PayPal's submission states: "While the currency itself should not be regulated, and transactions by individual users without the assistance of the intermediaries should not be....
Bitcoin prices rallied in the early London session after Reuters reported that PayPal would launch its crypto checkout services later on Tuesday. The payment giant, which started offering bitcoin custodial and trading services in October last year, will now allow US customers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay to PayPal’s millions of merchants worldwide. […]