Webmoney Transfer, the highly trusted and recognized leader in global digital currency, has just passed a major milestone of 6 million accounts. Lookout PayPal….It was just March, that Webmoney passed 5 million accounts, so they are rapidly advancing their global client base much faster than any other digital currency.  This is more than 1 million new users in just the past 6 months. Webmoney is a joy to use and offers thousands of easy-to-find funding locations around the globe.

While extremely popular in Russia and CIS countries, Webmoney is accepted and used around the world. The company has working arrangements for funding their accounts with paysafecard, UKash, cashU and others. Their electronic eWallets known as ‘purses’ are recognized and used as real electronic money. The newest purse is WMG or Webmoney gold and the digital units are 100% backed by gold stored in vaults located in the United Arab Emirates.

The top execs at Webmoney Transfer have been extremely busy this year. In May of this year their Webmoney Keeper Mobile product won a National E-Finance Innovations Award for 2008. Earlier in April, Webmoney along with VISA co-sponsored the annual Digital Money Forum-2008 in London. This is always very popular event for the digital money world. In March, Webmoney was an organizing partner at the Russian Internet Forum RIF-2008.

Below is a picture from the RIF-2008 event showing Dmitriy Medvedev, the newly elected Russian president visiting with Peter Darakhvelidze, Director of Corporate Affairs. Mr. Darakhvelidze was kind enough to grant us an interview in the April Webmoney issue of DGCmagazine. Click here to read the interview.