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Period: 25 May 2007 - 08 Feb 2024
News
Regulators, politicians and other crypto players have all responded to yesterday's unveiling of Facebook's Libra project and suggested that the social media giant's digital currency plans may face several challenges.
19 June 2019
Social media platform Facebook has unveiled further details of its much-anticipated digital currency offering, which it hopes will transform financial services.
18 June 2019
Facebook has reportedly landed Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Uber as founder members of its forthcoming stablecoin ecosystem.
14 June 2019
Facebook is finalising a digital payments system called ‘GlobalCoin’, which is expected to be available across 12 countries by the start of 2020.
24 May 2019
Facebook has reportedly met with Visa, Mastercard and a number of bulge-bracket financial institutions in the hope of securing a $1 billion investment for its secretive cryptocurrency project,
03 May 2019
News/payments
Facebook Marketplace users in America can now pay for their purchases directly on the platform and then get their goods shipped to anywhere in the country.
02 May 2019
Facebook is shutting down its P2P payment service in the UK and France after the Messenger-based service failed to gain traction with consumers.
16 April 2019
Facebook's plan to introduce its own digital coin that people can send and receive, across borders, over WhatsApp is so advanced that talks are already underway with cryptocurrency exchanges about selling the new token, according to the New York Times.
01 March 2019
In another hint of its intentions in the payments space, Facebook has been advertising for a 'Technical Program Manager, Marketplace Payments Blockchain'.
15 February 2019
Facebook has reignited speculation about its plans in the payments space by aqui-hiring the team behind London-based blockchain startup Chainspace.
05 February 2019
Royal Bank of Canada has become embroiled in a privacy scandal engulfing Facebook after it emerged that the social network appeared to provide a raft of Big Tech companies with privileged access to user accounts.
19 December 2018
Research
03 December 2018 167 downloads
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