Paypal payments to India blocked

| February 9th, 2010 | By: Anurag Sahu | Category: Business

San Francisco: Online payments’ service Paypal has halted personal payments to India following new government regulations that were designed to crack down on money laundering.

Paypal Monday did not cite a specific reason for the suspension apart from concerns raised by PayPal’s “business partners and stakeholders”. The company noted that commercial payments to merchants in India would continue as normal.

The move is expected to have a serious impact on the thousands of Indian freelancers who are paid via Paypal for web design, writing and software development, PC World reported.

The move is reportedly related to the Indian government’s crackdown in November 2009 on international banking transactions, when it instituted new reporting and verification requirements on all banks and financial institutions to prevent international money laundering.

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