An Entrepreneur is defined as “someone who sets up a business or starts a new venture, taking on financial risks in the expectations of making a profit”. Entrepreneurship meanwhile is the process of envisioning, designing and setting up the new business. The promise of profits is the reason behind many startups and yes there have […]

The early months of 2017 have been a very interesting time for Bitcoin. On January 2nd, Bitcoin maintained a value of $1,000 USD for the first time and only 5 months later it set its current record value of over $3,000. For a cryptocurrency that was worth only 25 cents per coin in 2010, this […]

At the start of 2017, the global cryptocurrency market cap, that is, the total value of all cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin, was just under $18 billion USD. This was already a very promising increase from just $7.1 billion the year before. Compared to what was about to come however, even that increase seems minuscule. […]

Firoz Patel, Executive Vice President at Payza, speaks with Alastair Greener at the Telegraph Studios for Business Reporter’s Future of Payments campaign to talk about the future of e-commerce, both in Europe and abroad.

It’s telling that one of the most popular colloquial terms for a cryptocurrency is “altcoin”, a portmanteau of “alternative” and “bitcoin”. Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, has become so ubiquitous that it is the definition of its own category. But the future of Bitcoin is currently in question and, because of this uncertainty, many traders are […]

2017 has only just begun and it’s already an exciting year for Payza. Wednesday night at the Merchant Payments Ecosystem Conference in Berlin, Payza was announced as the winner of the MPE 2017 Online Payment Method Award. “2016 was a banner year for Payza,” said Firoz Patel, global executive vice president of Payza, who accepted […]