Demand for PayPal’s crypto offering exceeded all expectations, CEO says
In the next five to 10 years, there will be more changes in the financial system than over the past two decades, PayPal's CEO predicted. The demand for cryptocurrency exceeded PayPal’s initial expectations after the firm launched crypto trading in late 2020, according to the company’s CEO.“Demand on the crypto side has been multiple-fold to what we initially expected. There’s a lot of excitement,” PayPal president and CEO Dan Schulman said in a Sunday interview with Time magazine.Schulman said that existing financial infrastructure needs modernization because it’s “inefficient today” due....
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