Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Western Union expands digital trading platform to new markets

Western Union Business Solutions, a business segment of The Western Union Company (WU) and a leader in global payment services, today announces enhanced capabilities to its WU® EDGE digital trading platform, including expansion of the platform’s fee-free* network, and availability into seven new markets: Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.

18 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Lloyds Bank launches mentoring service for fintechs

Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest UK high street bank to launch a mentoring service for fintech startups.

18 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

MasterCard goes all in on digital with MasterPass

In an important industry milestone, Mastercard today unveiled the foundation for the future of commerce with the new Masterpass global digital payment service.

14 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Yandex puts checkout on live chat

Yandex.Checkout has launched built-in chat payments for online stores.

14 July 2016

News/E-commerce

The best is yet to come for Europe's payments firms - Citi

The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.

14 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Europeans keen to secure payments with biometrics

More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.

14 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Samsung Pay launches in Puerto Rico

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico.

12 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Android Pay comes to Grubhub and Seamless

Grubhub, the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform, today announced the availability of a new payment option for its customers. Grubhub and Seamless diners can now pay for delivery or takeout orders placed via their Android app using Android Pay.

12 July 2016

News/E-commerce

PSD2: German regulator rules restriction of e-payment services by banks violates competition law

With PSD2 looming, German regulator Bundeskartellamt has ruled that the country's banking industry is violating competition law by putting up barriers that hinder competing online payments services.

08 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Stripe brings Managed Accounts to Europe

Today, we’re thrilled to launch Managed Accounts for Stripe Connect to marketplaces based in the U.K., Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway.

07 July 2016

News/E-commerce

European mobile banking adoption surges

The prevalence of mobile banking in Europe is soaring, with nearly half of phone owners now managing their finances through their handsets, new research commissioned by ING suggests.

07 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

UnionPay International launches YouJiHua cross-border commerce portal

On July 6, UnionPay International and its first partners jointly launched "YouJiHua", the world's first open cross-border marketing platform developed by a bankcard scheme.

06 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Kreditech launches online POS financing

The consumer finance technology company Kreditech has announced its new business line, Online Point-of-Sales (POS) Financing, with its first client, PayU Global BV. PayU Global BV, a leading payment services provider and the e-payments division of Naspers Ltd., deploys Kreditech’s B2B2C solution.

01 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

First Data and Silicon Valley Bank form partnership

As technology companies mature from startups through growth-stage to global corporations, they need strong partners that can support their growth and understand their rapidly evolving business needs.

29 June 2016

Company update/E-commerce

MasterCard to Simplify e-commerce for Microsoft Dynamics users

MasterCard announced today it will collaborate with Microsoft to bring simple and secure e-commerce payments to Microsoft Dynamics users.

29 June 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Indopay taps ACI Worldwide for e-commerce expansion

ACI Worldwide (ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and PT Indopay Merchant Services (Indopay), a subsidiary of Indonesia banking solutions provider PT Abhimata Persada, today announced that ACI’s UP eCommerce Payments solution will drive Indopay’s expansion into the eCommerce market in Indonesia and across Asia.

16 June 2016

Company update/E-commerce

IBM to offer Apple Pay on the Web to online clients

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will offer Apple Pay on the web to its online clients, bringing their customers easy, secure and private payments in Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac with a single touch.

14 June 2016

News/E-commerce

Apple Pay comes to the web

Apple is extending its payments service to the web, enabling shoppers that use its Safari browser to complete purchases by touching the fingerprint reader on their iPhones.

13 June 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Vitaxel Group and Bitspark sign MoU for push into Malaysia

Bitspark Limited, the world’s first cashin cashout remittance service leveraging Bitcoin and Blockchain technology in partnership with Vitaxel Group, the holding company of the first MLM Company from South East Asia to promote exclusive travel, entertainment, lifestyle and health products through eCommerce and its own online shopping mall, today signed an MOU to pursue bringing Bitspark’s remittance platform to the Malaysian market.

10 June 2016

Company update/E-commerce

ID TECH releases UniPay III for mobile payments

ID TECH, a leading manufacturer of secure payment solutions, mobile payment, point of sale peripherals, and digital signage, has announced that the UniPay™ III has been released to production.

10 June 2016