Tag Archive: USA

Visa Customers Spent More Than US$1 Billion on Crypto-Linked Cards in 2021

2021-07-09

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2021-07-09

Visa revealed that its customers had spent more than US$1 billion on its crypto-linked cards in the first half of 2021. The payments giant reported that it had partnered with 50 leading crypto platforms on card programmes that make it easy to convert and spend digital currency at 70 million merchants worldwide.

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PayPal Allows American Customers to Use Cryptocurrencies for Purchases

2021-03-31

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2021-03-31

PayPal announced the launch of Checkout with Crypto, where US customers will be able to choose to check out with crypto seamlessly. Building on the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency with PayPal, customers using Checkout with Crypto can check out safely and easily, converting cryptocurrency holdings to fiat currency, with certainty of value and no additional transaction fees.

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Peter Regli – unwissend? ferngesteuert? verblendet?

2015-05-14

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2015-05-14

Peter Regli, Divisionär ausser Dienst (a D), ehemaliger Unterstabschef Nachrichtendienst der Schweizer Armee (USC ND), ehemaliger Leiter des Nachrichtendienstes der Flieger- und Fliegerabwehrtruppen, ehemaliger Assistent in der Schweizer Botschaft in...

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Weltwoche nimmt Blogbeitrag zu Gold von unbequemefragen.ch auf

2014-10-16

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2014-10-16

Da habe ich nicht schlecht gestaunt, als sich Markus Schär von der Weltwoche vorgestern Abend bei mir über Twitter gemeldet und verkündet hat, dass er bei seinem Artikel über die Goldverkäufe der SNB sehr prominent meinen Blogbeitag zitiert. Nochmals...

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Q1 GDP: Japan +1.0%, AUS, Swiss +0.6%, US +0.45%, Germany +0.1%, Italy -0.5%

2013-05-30

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2013-05-30

  Update June 26: The Swiss economy has grown more quickly than the United States in Q1 2013. Japan is in the lead of the global comparison with 1.0% quarterly growth, Australia and Switzerland follow with 0.6%, the US has 0.45% QoQ (or 1.8% annualized), Germany 0.1% and Italy slowed by -0.5%. Weakest currency, strongest … Continue...

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