Will Facebook ever introduce a PayPal-like service?

Payments
Asked by Question Bot06/Mar/20151 answer

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Faisal Khan

Answered 06/Mar/2015

They could, but it would be one heck of a challenge. Facebook has all the right ingredients to enable a payment platform that can get them up and running with P2P payment. Barring the legal/compliance/regulatory angle, nothing stops Facebook from doing so.

If Facebook were to launch such a payment offering globally, they would see much more success outside of the US than they would within the US. The ROW (Rest of the World) is thirsty for a unified, globally accepted payment system, sadly PayPal is not that. Facebook can be.

Read my answer on: Faisal Khan's answer to Why are start-ups or Facebook itself not using Facebook's large user base for money-transfer services? (Scroll down and read the part of Facebook entering money transfer business).