{"id":58540,"date":"2022-03-05T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T10:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58540"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:17:57","slug":"paypal-and-revolut-halt-operations-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/paypal-and-revolut-halt-operations-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal and Revolut halt operations in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The payments company PayPal has suspended its operations in the Russian Federation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/paypal-shuts-down-its-services-russia-citing-ukraine-aggression-2022-03-05\/?taid=62230dfd9fa2ce00010fa7a6&#038;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&#038;utm_medium=trueAnthem&#038;utm_source=twitter\">Reuters<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, since March 3 Russian users have been unable to register for the service.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PayPal chief Dan Schulman, the move is linked to Russia&#8217;s military aggression in Ukraine. He added that since the invasion began the service has helped raise more than $150 million for charity.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal will support withdrawals from accounts for a period of time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/AlfaBank\/1098\">\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0438\u043b<\/a> to transfer funds to its cards without restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/136402\/revolut-bans-transfers-in-russia-and-belarus\">The Block<\/a>, a similar decision was taken by the British fintech startup Revolut. As of March 4, the service no longer supports transfers within Russia and Belarus and top-ups from cards issued by financial institutions in those countries.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The payments company PayPal has suspended its activities in the Russian Federation. The British fintech startup Revolut has halted operations in Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[182,1396,27],"class_list":["post-58540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-paypal","tag-revolut","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58542,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540\/revisions\/58542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}