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Digital currency is an integrated part of our present life as ecommerce is ever growing and the internet users are increasingly getting interested in shopping online and in dealing with virtual economy. Ecurrecy services, or payment systems, are very popular today as they allow people to enter financial relationship online in an easy and convenient way. Ecurrencies enable people to store money in online wallets or accounts in currency units that best fit their interests.

Online payment system WebMoney reported the liquidation of the Uzbek guarantor of its ecurrency units called WMY which are equivalent to the Uzbek sum banknotes. As it is reported on the company website though TILLO-GARANT Ltd was liquidated “pretensions are accepted within 2 months since the date of the notification.” It means that now customers cannot make any transactions using WMY units, neither they can open WMY wallets.

Online payment service WebMoney reported its achievements in Ukraine in 2009 saying the epayments turnover was 1,397 million hryvnas ($172,256,473) as compared with 663 million hryvnas in 2008.

“Analyzing the results of 2009 we should note that we achieved much success in expanding our service coverage,” said Nikita Senchenko , a development management at WebMoney Ukraine. “At present time the number of kiosks for funding WebMoney wallets is 20,000.”

 An online payment service Moneybookers has introduced a new prepaid card to enable users to access their cash in Moneybookers eWallet directly at any ATM or point of sale where MasterCard is accepted.

Users of the Moneybookers MasterCard prepaid card issued by Newcastle Building Society will not have to split funds and separately preload the card. Instead, the Moneybookers MasterCard synchronises automatically in real time with the funds in the customer's Moneybookers eWallet.