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“Silver is becoming very popular in Egypt, and the industry is developing everyday,” Moaz Barakat, managing director of the industry-funded World Gold Council in the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan, said. Visa Announces Corporate Responsibility Program
The program, Visa's first as a public company, has two areas of emphasis: Glenbrook Looks at Alternative Payment Options for Retailers
American Express reports financial results
Cardmember spending worldwide increased 14% to $166.4 billion (3% of that increase was due to the weak dollar) while the number of cards issued by bank partners increased 33%. Discount revenue from merchants grew 11% with average merchant discount holding steady at 2.57%. The total number of American Express cards in force worldwide grew 10% to 88 million. Worldwide lending balances on a managed basis grew 19% to $75.2 billion. UK's Advanced Payment Solutions Moves Prepaid Portfolio to Metavante
China pushed the US from the 1st place!
PayPal New President: no signs of e-commerce slowdown
 A new report on mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research suggests that most of the consumers desire high-speed transactions but only 10% are ready to start using mobile P2P payment services."Mobile P2P payments and transfers stand to transform the mobile landscape. Whether it's how we buy things, interact with friends and businesses or modifyPrecious metals dumped their preciousness
 The recession of US economy is a worm deconstructing the world economy and adding chaos on the speculative stock and futures market. As it was announced later the precious metals features for February considerably dropped 0.8 %, with $883.10/oz for gold (that by Jan.15showed the highest climb ever known to the history to $916.10/oz) and $15.97/oz for silver.
FSA rate is decreased to 3,5%. What's next? What will be with e-money and DGC?
 Events of this week more and more start to remind the shocking news from New-York that in 1929 have overturned the leading world economics like a hurricane and as a chain reaction have plunged the national economics into a deep crisis. That October due to the crash of Wall Street the USA had lost 30 billion dollars that is even more than the amount spent by the government for the whole World War I. |
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It's official! China is the largest internet population in the world, according to a recent Chinese research. Since the creation of the Internet no other nation could beat the USA in this unofficial contest. With its 220 million online users the growth opportunity for a gigantic Asian market is unlimited. According to the China Internet Research Center in Beijing 55 million internet users did
In the interview published on Monday by Les Echos, the president of PayPal - Scott Thompson disagreed with the widely discussed topic of the lowering e-commerce activity. He said: "There is no proof that e-commerce is showing signs of a slowdown". According to Thompson, PayPal is planning to receive half of its profits from clients outside of eBay.
