Purchases could be paid for with Facebook Credits, the virtual currency payment system Facebook introduced in 2009, added Serbinis.
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Big Fish also added 12 currency payment options, so that the company now supports payments in 16 different currencies.
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InsideFacebook recently cited Guy Rom, a Facebook engineering manager who works on Credits, as saying that the Facebook currency is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant.
It's spoken differently in places like Chile, Mexico and Peru, so we'll make investments in currency, payment types, unique graphics and vernacular for each market we go into.
With three international patents pending, the API uses a universal payments interface, meaning that it works with any payment processor, in any currency, in the world.
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Bitcoin, without an intermediary, already solves P2P marketplace payment issues with a decentralized P2P digital currency that is both fair to buyers with optional anonymity and fair to sellers with finality of payment.
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The Terras would trade in every currency in the world on world markets, and payment due could then be in the Terra value of each currency.
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Except for the Chinese yuan, which is non-convertible, payment can be received in any currency.
Under the same pilot scheme, the regulators have approved another HSBC client to reduce its cross-border foreign currency cash management to a single payment.
If there becomes reason to question that value, people can switch from dollars to gold currency (most easily through electronic payment systems like debit cards).
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That is because there is no natural income flow, unlike with bonds, in which investors receive a regular interest payment, said Thomas Kressin, who heads currency strategy for Pacific Investment Management Co. from Munich.
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Technology and utilities stocks rallied in Europe, as investors bought up cheap defensives ahead of a week that may hold more news from Greece on its next move to prepare for another aid payment or perhaps pull out of the eurozone currency and begin to restructure its debt.
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Governments that view it as an alternative currency and as an official means of payment can discourage people from holding it via the tax code.
Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, has become an increasingly popular form of payment since its inception nearly four years ago.
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Recently, Amex has continued to make moves in the social media space into gaming, the company acquired the virtual currency company Sometrix in hopes of integrating their Serve mobile payment system into the payment path of the 450 games in over 200 countries that Sometrics supports.
Critics of bitcoin as a currency are quick to point out that not many merchants accept it as a payment type yet.
Mr. Chan predicted that the next phase of offshore yuan trade would involve "more balanced flow between the mainland and Hong Kong, " with Chinese currency moving in both directions as more Chinese exporters ask to accept yuan in payment for their goods from overseas buyers.
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The bank, along with most of the other major UK High Street lenders, has also been found culpable in recent years of mis-selling unnecessary payment protection insurance to mortgage borrowers, and overly complex, over-priced interest rate and currency hedges to small businesses.
There is some currency hedging and when the shops make big advance orders for Christmas products, for example, they will buy the currency to pay for them straight away, even if they do not need to make the payment for several months.
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