26/6/18Spoke with Guru <removed>, General Manager of the Chennai Technology Center in India. He currently leads the technology centers in Bangalore and Chennai and is the Global Engineering Leader for PayPal's Transaction Orchestration Platform organisation. And Vikram <removed> (Product Management) was also on this conference call to try and sort out technical problems with new website layout re compliance rules and usability.
The main thing that I got from this was that because, different Wordwide banking platforms use different timings to clear payments and Paypal will not put up the cleared balance in case it is still in process and they get flack for saying that the money is there when it is not. I asked them if they could put a disclaimer in place explaining this instead of having such a convoluted system in place which they thought was a good idea? However they said that people want all sorts of breakdowns now (why , I have no idea as, it's a joke trying to get the information compared to the old website which simply carried the running balance as well as details of each transaction. They said that they would keep me in the loop re further changes, and of course that's the last I heard from anyone.
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