1- Yes, if it’s use is limited to your services, a license would not be needed. (this does not constitute legal advice, pls check for yourself for a definite answer)
2-1 If you happen to operate your exchange and you “sell” mojo token for people to spend on your plattform you probably need a banking partner only insofar that you need a business account for that. I am not sure whether this necessarily requires an integration with the bank directly. But again, this also depends on the juristiction that you are in and how exactly you service is structured.
I’ll be meeting with a potential important banking partner next Friday morning in order to talk about how to integrate Taler’s Exchange into Aipress24.From your opinion, what should be the good questions to ask ?
Hi Erick,
the most relevant point would be the interfaces offered by a potential banking partner, so that you can connect the GNU Taler Exchange with your bank account.
One way of doing that would be via EBICS (see 11.1. Nexus Manual — GNU Taler). Similar interfaces would work too, but would need integrational work.
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and experience shows that not all banks are cool with such services running on top of their accounts. So it would probably by a good idea to check that as well.
Thank you very much LeoW
Just to keep you informed. The executive of the French bank I met with last week seemed interested by our project of placing Taler at the heart of Aipress24. So he’s willing to introduce me to the CEO of their PSP subsidiary. I’m waiting for the go between.
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Hi @ErickHaehnsen!
Do you have any news from them?
As you can see in GNU Taler Regional Availability, we learned this summer that GLS will only operate Taler payments in euros from german merchants.
Thus, I opened this topic to widen our scope: Taler en Belgique, en France ou au Luxembourg?. It would be much appreciated if you have any opportunity to contribute to this effort.
Hi @Ada,
Thank yoiu for your information. No Ada, till now, I don’t have any news from NGI Taler on this point. I regret that GLS retraints its operations in Germany. It means that every company or platform using GNU Taler will have to find alternative Banking Partners for its domestic market. I’m afraid that there will be no mutualised benefits for all GNU Taler merchants or platform. I used to have talks with a major French Bank, but like any bank, they want first taht we implement the GNU Taler technology before before going forwards. In other words, it means that if an European-wide bank accepts to work with us, it will have a market at the scale of Europe. As far as I’m concerned, I answered the second open call of last october. I’m still waiting for an answer. If our project is part of the laureates, we’ll move more intensively to contract with a robust banking partner for our journalistic platform.
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We do as well… There might be some updates in the next few months as GLS is a member of a broader consortium of like-minded european banks so 
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Well, we can also still hope that someone will lead the effort of operating an Exchange in France. A single one is required to allow any Taler Merchant (which is much less of an effort to operate) in its regional scope to use it.
I’m sorry that you still didn’t get a reply. I just wrote an email to get more insights about your situation so we’ll keep you tuned ASAP. Very sorry for the inconvenience and good luck for your project anyway 
Don’t worry, i’m feeling quite comfortable with your questions because they are related with a common interest ! If I succeed first at being a laureate of NGI Taler and then at convincing the major bank in France (operating at the scale of Europe), it would be a great benefit for all the merchants of the GNU Taler community. Of course, it would also be very cool for all the merchants. I mean I would play not only for myself but for the whole community.
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