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Digital currencies are going to come into the mainstream

December 2, 2020 By admin Leave a Comment

Dan Schulman: “Digital currencies are going to come into the mainstream… The time is now.”

CEO and president of PayPal, Dan Schulman, spoke about PayPal’s recent decision to incorporate cryptocurrencies. “As we thought about it, digital wallets are a natural complement to digital currencies. We’ve got over 360 million digital wallets and we need to embrace cryptocurrencies.”

Schulman spoke about how PayPal thinks about digital currencies, who he sees as competitors, the mainstream viability of cashless currencies, and the need to work hand-in-hand with regulators.

Schulman joined European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban at 100,000-attendee online conference Web Summit.

LISBON, Dec. 2, 2020 – The CEO and president of Paypal, Dan Schulman, in his first interview since Paypal’s decision to incorporate cryptocurrency, said that crypto will become an everyday payments tool, and also spoke about the fact that the global pandemic has accelerated a number of trends, including consumers abandoning cash. ” [The pandemic] has pulled these trends forward anywhere between three to five years in five to six months,” he said.

Schulman was interviewed by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross-Sorkin at 100,000-attendee online conference Web Summit.

When Ross-Sorkin asked whether the decision to incorporate crypto was already in PayPal’s roadmap for 2020, or if it changed over the course of the year, Schulman noted that “parts of it were on the roadmap and parts were not”.

“We were going to provide the capability for our customers to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies inside the PayPal wallet, because we had done market research and something like 54 percent of our base wanted that capability,” Schulman said. “What we hadn’t had on our roadmap is the ability to use cryptocurrencies as a funding instrument to purchase at any one of our 28 million merchants. We moved that up, because, once you buy cryptocurrency, you really want to be able to use it both as an investment vehicle but, importantly, as a funding source to make other purchases.”

On the volatility of bitcoin and whether people will use it as a currency if it fluctuates the way it has, Schulman said volatility had been his primary concern and why he thought that it was a “poor form of currency” with the potential to wipe out small merchants’ profits.

But what PayPal has done that’s different is to allow a consumer to know the exact exchange rate of crypto at the moment of a purchase. That way, neither the consumer nor the merchant face volatility risk.

“It bolsters the utility of that underlying cryptocurrency, and you can do more with it than just ride the ups and downs of it. In effect, you’re taking that as an instrument that can conduct commerce at our 28 million merchants.”

Looking into the future more broadly, Schulman said he sees digital currencies becoming mainstream.

“I think that if you can create a financial system, a new and modern technology that is faster, that is less expensive, more efficient, that’s good for bringing more people into the system, for inclusion, to help drive down costs, to help drive financial health for so many people… So, over the long run, I’m very bullish on digital currencies of all kinds,” he said.

About Dan Schulman

As president and CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman is focused on transforming financial services and ecommerce to improve the financial health of billions of people around the world. With extensive experience in payments and mobile technology, Dan is leading PayPal to reimagine how people move and manage money, and how merchants and consumers interact and transact. Under Dan’s leadership, PayPal was named one of the top companies on JUST Capital’s and Forbes’ JUST 100 list, and as a Fortune Change the World company for its work to tackle the biggest challenges facing society today.

Dan has been recognised as one of Fortune’s top 20 Businesspersons of the Year and he is the recipient of the 2017 Brennan Legacy Award, given in recognition of his contributions to social justice. Prior to PayPal, Dan served in leadership roles at American Express, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Priceline Group and AT&T. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s steering committee to promote global financial inclusion. Dan earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N Stern School of Business. He is also an avid mixed martial arts practitioner.

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