So in future, when I talk about PayPal, don’t forget that we’re also talking about their national equivalents such as iDEAL, Yandex.Money and Alipay. Similarly with Facebook, don’t forget that there’s also Mixi, Hyves, Orkut and Friendster.
The implications of these services on core banking is exactly the same which is that we are seeing the creation of many disruptive, fresh and incredibly successful web services for social and P2P finance … leading, in future, to social B2B finance.

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