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Atlas Venture Capital acquires "The Bank" 

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Written by Xavier Mohr   
Friday, 10 August 2007
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This new acquisition will become an asset to the ever-growing AVC., but will remain privately owned by the group. During this period, for 30 days, withdraws from The Bank will be limited to 100,000L a week until the acquisition is complete.

The Bank is also announcing a new and innovative service to The Bank customers. World Wide Connect, owned by Lonnie Dagger, has also been purchased by Atlas Venture Capital to provide a Mastercard debit card service to all of The Bank customers. This card will enable people to deposit money into their debit accounts which can then be used with a real life Mastercard to buy lunch, or whatever else they desire, in the real world. There will be no transactions fees for this service, which is bonded by Lloyds of London. This is a first for Second Life and will really change the face of banking in the metaverse.

"These two acquisitions for Atlas Venture Capital will make the Bank a market leader in the finance community. No one else has tried to implement such a service to SL residents before, and it opens the door to an increased cross over between SL and real life, offering an additional portal for the withdrawal and deposit  of funds into and from hard cash," say Jasper Tizzy, CEO of Atlas Venture Capital.

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SLReports.net User   | 2007-08-10 07:49:05
Limiting deposits to L$100,000 a week? Does this mean another bank is crashing?
jasper Tizzy   | 2007-08-10 07:57:42
No, 100k a week is not a sign of a crash. Anyone who is a customer at The Bank knows this bank is far from any type of crash.
Strange Ranger   | 2007-08-10 08:43:41
I'm very intrigued by the debit card, here. What would be even "more" interesting is if the MasterCard would draw funds directly out of the Linden balance in-world.

... or maybe it does?
Andy Grant   | 2007-08-10 10:15:08
"No one else has tried to implement such a service to SL residents before" Realy ? ...

Nice move from Tizzy, however he's completely uninformed, he's the 4th person to aim for that not first. The first bank that offered this service is firstmeta, and it's already open for service, 2nd is BNT wich acquired M2B and plans offer CC, 3rd is JT Financial with similar plans. So in best case Tizzy will be the 2nd to offer this kind of service.
jasper Tizzy   | 2007-08-10 10:33:09
To reply to Andy, this is a real life Mastercard Debit Card - not a Linden Credit Card. This is for usd currency to buy lunch or make your car payment in real life. Again we have yet to see any real Mastercard in second life. Bonded and Insured by Lloyds of London. )
Xavier Mohr     | 2007-08-10 10:54:16
Jasper, I don't get it though... is the debit card funded from the L$ balance? X
Andy Grant   | 2007-08-10 11:49:46
Thats exactly what firstmeta has to offer, two ways banking pay in lindens or collect lindens and buy a lunch in rl

Despite the fact you're not first, i still congratulate you ithink it'll be huge sucess, Jasper, keep up the good work :-)
jasper Tizzy   | 2007-08-10 19:18:45
Andy your wrong. Sorry.... FirstMeta is a SL credit card. We are a real life credit card. It takes a few million USD to get a mastercard program like what we have. Look again and you see it is not a real life hold in your hand credit card, it is a sl prim credit card. And I work with BNT daily, and they also dont have what we have. LOL
We will be a success, this is the 1st rl mastercard that you can put your L$ into usd and on the card from "The Bank" atm machine in sl. Then go pay for lunch with the mastercard.
SLReports.net User   | 2007-08-12 19:24:00
where or when can i get one?
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