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PayPal Moves To Luxembourg and Becomes A Licensed Bank?

May 15, 2007 by Mark  
Filed under Finance

It sounds strange but the Telegraph is reporting that PayPal has been granted a banking license in Luxembourg and is moving their headquarters to the tiny country. Back in 2004, PayPal became a licensed Electronic Money Issuer and had operated under the FSA. In March of this year, Google was also granted this same FSA license in the UK. The move to Luxembourg means PayPal will no longer be authorized by the Financial Services Authority.

eBay who owns PayPal has been fighting back new competition for those retail online dollars. In recent months Google Checkout, nicknamed ‘The PayPal Killer’ has gained in popularity with retail merchants around the globe.

However in places like the UK, PayPal is still on top of Internet commerce. In Britain, more than half of the population is now online and half of that group uses PayPal. Throughout Europe and the UK, PayPal has captured over 50 million users so I suppose the move into banking was just a matter of time.

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9 Responses to “PayPal Moves To Luxembourg and Becomes A Licensed Bank?”
  1. Blondmark says:

    What a scam! Paypal moving from its Richmond Surrey headquarters to Luxembourg and severing all its UK ties. This means its UK customers can no longer serve proceedings on them when Paypal steal money from their accounts.

    How do I know? Because Paypal recently stole hundreds of pounds from my account, and when I contacted them to issue proceedings, they informed me that they no longer have any UK address to serve proceedings at, or a UK firm of solicitors authorised to accept proceedings. Instead, they told me, I should get in touch with their Luxembourg office.

    A brilliant scam shielding Paypal from legal action from any of their UK victims!

    So if you live in the UK and Paypal steal money from your account too, you will have no legal redress whatsoever.

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