223 results about this entity
Period: 25 May 2007 - 08 Feb 2024
News/crypto
The Libra Association, the organisation developing Facebook's cryptocurrency project, continues to hoover up top talent from the traditional financial services space, hiring former HSBC man Ian Jenkins as chief financial officer and CRO.
15 October 2020
News/retail
Jesse McWaters, Mastercard’s vice president of global digital public policy, believes the way people think about Big Tech companies entering financial services are mistaken.
08 October 2020
Former HSBC Europe CEO James Emmett has been recruited by Facebook's cryptocurrency project to act as managing director of Libra Networks.
17 September 2020
The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has suggested that the Euro Zone's central bankers are close to making a decision on whether to press ahead with the development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
11 September 2020
News/payments
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dismissed a case accusing WhatsApp of abusing its dominate market position in messaging to move into the country's payments space.
19 August 2020
Facebook has created a new group, led by David Marcus, to house all of its payments and commerce work, according to Bloomberg.
10 August 2020
The central bank of Brazil has suspended Facebook's WhatsApp payment service within ten days of its roll out, citing competition issues in the mobile payment space.
24 June 2020
Facebook has launched its WhatsApp payments service in Brazil, enabling people to send money and make purchases from within the chat app.
15 June 2020
News/people
As it looks to get regulators onside, the Libra Association has brought in Credit Suisse's head of financial crime compliance, Sterling Daines, as chief compliance officer.
10 June 2020
Facebook and PayPal have invested in Gojek, the Indonesian firm which began life as a ride-hailing app but has since moved heavily into payments and financial services.
03 June 2020
Facebook's digital wallet provider Calibra has been given a make-over, changing its name to Novi and confirming in-app integration with Messenger and WhatsApp.
26 May 2020
Mark Zuckerberg is diving into e-commerce, launching a service that lets small businesses set up storefronts on Facebook and Instagram - although buyers will often have to leave the apps to complete purchases.
19 May 2020
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