PayPal Stops Personal Payments In Singapore

techcrunch.com 19 Feb '13, 7am

PayPal Stops Personal Payments In Singapore

PayPal’s wording seems to suggest that users will still be able to receive payments from “sales and trading”, so this shouldn’t hurt individuals selling on eBay (which owns PayPal). However, many of the smaller blogshops in the region are run by individuals, and those transfers are to personal accounts. Blogging platform, LiveJournal, has said it has a global pool of over 50,000 blogshops. It said that the transaction volume of Singapore blogshops was $80 million in that year alone.

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PayPal will stop allowing personal payments in Singapore on February 20 due to “regulatory instructions” #ouch [link]
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