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Online auction site eBay is adding two new approved payments methods for its US customers after striking deals with Australia's Paymate and UK-based Moneybookers.
09 January 2009
Visa has partnered with banks in China and Taiwan to introduce an SMS-based one-time password system for cardholders to authenticate themselves when making online purchases.
17 December 2008
Police in Dubai have arrested three men accused of stealing more than Dh223 million (around £40 million) after obtaining credit card information used in online transactions.
16 December 2008
UK start-up Voice Commerce Group has launched a payments processing service for TV and IPTV advertisers that lets customers phone up and buy products by 'signing' for the transaction with their voice.
15 December 2008
US e-commerce merchants expect online fraud to cost them a record $4 billion this year, up from $3.7 billion in 2007, according to a survey from electronic payments outfit CyberSource.
10 December 2008
Attempted online fraud on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving and one of the US's busiest shopping days - was up 40% on the previous year, according to Retail Decisions (ReD).
04 December 2008
Ukash, a digital money outfit that provides pre-paid coupons that can be redeemed for online products and services, is launching in South Africa as it looks to tap the country's large unbanked population.
27 November 2008
Over 60% of Brits who bank online believe they face a greater security threat now than when they first signed up to the service, according to a poll for vendor Xiring.
26 November 2008
Person-to-person online payments outfit PayPal has introduced an optional SMS text message-based two factor authentication system for customers logging into their accounts.
24 November 2008
Person-to-person online payments outfit PayPal has launched localised sites in Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore, enabling customers to conduct transactions in their local currencies.
20 November 2008
Consumers shopping online are increasingly turning away from traditional financial institution-controlled credit and debit cards to embrace cash-based alternative payment options, according to an analysis by US-based Javelin Strategy & Research.
11 November 2008
Ukash has inked a deal with Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica which will see the digital money outfit's vouchers available 24 hours a day from 70,000 telephone kiosks across the country.
31 October 2008
Digital money outfit Ukash says the credit crunch has helped it record a 130% increase in the number of pre-paid vouchers issued in the UK and Europe this September over the same period last year as online shoppers rein in their spending on credit cards.
20 October 2008
The global economic crisis could be good news for one eBay seller who has just placed the domain name afterthebailout.com up for auction on the site - with a starting price of $1 million.
Nearly two thirds of all US consumer payments are now made electronically as Americans increasingly turn away from cash and cheques, according to research from BAI and Hitachi Consulting.
06 October 2008
Online auction house eBay has signed a definitive agreement to acquire alternative online payment scheme Bill Me Later for around $820 million in cash and $125 million worth of outstanding options.
A specialist police unit dedicated to fighting cybercrime and Internet fraud is set to launch next year after the UK government and London's Metropolitan Police Service committed funding to the project.
01 October 2008
The increasing popularity of online payment providers like PayPal and Amazon Checkout, combined with the emergence of mobile commerce, threatens to leave banks lagging in the e-commerce world, according to Cisco.
29 September 2008
UK payments firm DataCash has invested around $7 million in Smart Voucher, a digital money outfit that provides pre-paid coupons that can be redeemed for online products and services.
25 September 2008
After failing in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal, online auction house eBay is setting its sights on US users that pay by cheque and money order.
24 September 2008
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