Monday, June 30, 2014

PayPal goes slow on India, focuses on analytics

..............Owned by eBay, PayPal moved out of India in phases because of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulations that treated it as a quasi-financial body since it offers services like the online wallet that allows users to store money in the online account. RBI wanted PayPal to transfer the money to banks within a pre-determined timeframe instead of holding the money in its online account. In effect, it only allowed PayPal to function as a payment gateway, limiting the scope of its platform. “RBI placed some restrictions because they didn’t want frauds to happen,”..............

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