Payments Monitor

Good morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 20th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Smartcard and security technology company Oberthur announced it will be filing for an IPO on Euronet Paris exchange. The IPO value has not been announced, but it will be close to the previous value of Euro 2 Billion (which was taken from the value assigned to Oberthur when it was a target of a failed private equity acquisition). Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled that Apple Music has 15 Million Users out of which 6.5 Million users are paying subscribers. Spotify by comparison has 75 Million active users and 20 Million paid subscribers. YouTube is seriously mulling about providing a payment wall for exclusive content on its video streaming platform. YouTube feels a paywall would not be out of scope, provided content that can suddenly reach 100s of million of users is available exclusively on YouTube. All this represents a reflection of the exclusive movies Netflix ha