The company had developed several proposals for creating a virtual currency which could be used for person to person (P2P) transactions across its platforms, but cancelled its plans because it worried it could fall foul of international money laundering and currency compliance issues.
In recent news, Google has disabled the provisioning of prepaid cards for its Google Wallet mobile payment platform following several security concerns.
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