Re:Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
by sylvinus on Sunday September 30, 2012 @04:24PM
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Hasn't Amazon implemented their own?
Re:Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
by tisme on Sunday September 30, 2012 @04:39PM
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Do you have an amazon credit card?
As far as I know they use GE as the issuing bank, they may have other deals in place.
As far as I know - but this may very well be wrong or at least out of date - amazon does not have a banking license and the network used is VISA.
This seems to confirm that:
Re:Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B?
by paulsilver on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:11AM
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I've got an Amazon credit card (in the UK) and it's a Mastercard run by MBNA.
I would guess Amazon have looked at replacing as much of the payment chain as they can and done the parts that are profitable to replace. But they have a long way to go before the enormous hassle of becoming a bank is going to be attractive and possible.
The credit card processing chain is quite complicated, with banks, card companies, ISPSs, processors and merchants all having fairly clearly delineated roles. A merchant - no matter how big - implementing the whole chain is unheard of.
Visa, MC and other cc companies care a lot more about their reputation than they'll even care about a company like this.
Much larger fish have been put on the bbq over less substantiated claims of fraud.