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  • The biggest difference between ideas like this and a PayPal — and PayPal is a phenomenal idea, Square is too — is that those are built on top of networks like Visa and MasterCard. We're building our own
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      Gary Edwards on 15 Nov 11
       
      Fascinating plan for totally disrupting the Banksters Credit Card Golden Goose industry.  Good explanation of how things work, and how Dwolla will disrupt things.  PayPal and Square are based on existing credit card transaction processing system.  They make their money adding on to the basic credit card charge.  Dwolla replaces the credit card processing system with a bank direct model.   Here's the thing: Credit Cards charge sellers 3% of the transaction.  Dwolla charges a transaction fee of $0.25.  Yes, 25 Cents.
  • All banks are connected by one ACH system.  Credit card companies utilize that same system to pay off your credit card charges.  Banks internally set along that same system to move money in their own banks.  This system in its own right is riddled with flaws — tons of fraud issues and waste and delays.  If you've ever had a payment take a few days to clear, its because they're waiting on that ACH system. We want to fix that system between the banks, take out the delays and make it instant.  If we can create this ubiquitous cash layer of distribution between consumers and merchants and developers and financial institutions, that actually fixes the problem.
  • We don't believe in credit cards.  We believe in authorization and in lower cost transfers.  Our generation actually understands that when you buy sh*t, it comes out of your bank account and you have to pay for that.
  • Gary Edwards on 15 Nov 11
     
    Incredible interview with Ben Milne of Dwolla, the PayPal and Square killer that promises to take a huge chunk out of the Credit Card transaction industry.  Incredible must read!  This is page 2 out of four.  Starts at: http://bit.ly/vzVUy3 excerpt: How does Dwolla work and how is it different from PayPal? With Dwolla, payments are made directly from your bank account.  No credit or debit cards are allowed.  And because they don't exist in the system, we don't have to bring the fees into the system.  You can spend any amount of money and when you do that, the person on the other end doesn't have to pay 1, 2, 3 or 4%. They only pay $0.25 a transaction, which is especially helpful when it's $1,000, $2,000 or $5,000 transactions.  Obviously PayPal becomes very cost prohibitive with those larger transactions.   The biggest difference between ideas like this and a PayPal - and PayPal is a phenomenal idea, Square is too - is that those are built on top of networks like Visa and MasterCard. We're building our own.
Gary Edwards

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  • really strategic investors, which is what we did. One of our investors is a financial institution; one is a financial services company. 
  • Our investors do credit and debit processing for banks.  So when you get a credit card from your bank, it's being issued by companies like them.  Our investors are also distributing our product to financial institutions.  So we've been building a payment network, and we can do it legally because of who our investors are.
  • Gary Edwards on 15 Nov 11
     
    Page one of this extrordinary Business Insider interview of Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla.  Lots of highlights on this 3 page article.  An absolute must read.  Dwolla is using the Web and mobile Web connectivity to truly disrupt the massive Credit Card transaction and payment industry.  Built on top of the legacy Bank ACH payment and reconciliation system used by all Banks. This is awe-sum!  A recent economic study claimed that 40% of all transactions is "interest payment".  For Governments, it's 50%.  The Banksters are getting their vig at every turn, with Credit Cards accounting for much of the productivity-sales formula of invest, build, service, and sell.
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Mobile banking pioneer mFoundry nabs $18M from MasterCard, Intel Capital and others - 1 views

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  • Gary Edwards on 05 Dec 11
     
    Good stuff. The Internet-payment sector is really heating up: Square, PayPal, mFoundry and my favorite - DWOLLA. The credit-card-payment-industry is still in control, but you can see from the heavy investments they are making in Web based systems, that the mobility phenomenon has them concerned. Dwolla is my favorite because of the innovative way they connect direct to the bank accounts of users, cutting the transaction and reconciliation cost from credit card standard 2.75% o a FLAT $0.25 cents!!!! Outstanding. Could prove very disruptive.
  • Gary Edwards on 05 Dec 11
     
    Simple, formerly known as "BankSimple" recently won an award as one of the 20 best stratups of 2011. Backed by Visa, Simple aggregates end user bank accounts, proving a single interface. Promises to get rid of bank fees entirely, and become a NEW Mobile Bank. Not sure this can be doen with Visa sitting in the drivers seat.
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