Volume: 2 Issue: 5
(May 2008)
Keywords:
australia
ebay
paypal
competition
p2p
peer-to-peer
payment
Authors:
roger featherston
natasha cox
jaani riordan
Organisations:
mallesons stephen jaques
Jurisdictions:
australia
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has blocked an application by eBay to restrict payments made on the online auction site to PayPal, a company owned by eBay. In this article, Roger Featherston, Natasha Cox and Jaani Riordan, of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, consider the implications of this preliminary decision.
Q&A: Marc Brûlé discusses the Canadian Royal Mint's MintChip project
Q&A: FinCEN and virtual currencies: the coming of clarity and ambiguity Q&A: Tony Anderson, Partner at Pinsent Masons, on the new regulator for the UK payments systems sector Q&A: O2's move into mobile commerce Q&A: Sarah Carter, General Manager, Social Business, at Actiance, about banks on social media Interview with Joseph I. Rosenbaum, Partner at Reed Smith LLP, on mobile payments & financial institutions