Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Brits keen on PIN authentication for online shopping - myPINpad survey

myPINpad, provider of multi-factor authentication technology for touchscreen devices, has released today a new unique consumer report. PIN: From Brick to Click looks at consumer confidence in PIN as a method of authentication for mobile commerce transactions.

01 April 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Braintree Auth launches

At Braintree, we are always looking for innovative ways to drive online commerce forward with and for our merchants and partners. Today we are excited to release Braintree Auth in invite-only Beta in the US, as part of this mission.

31 March 2016

Company update/E-commerce

BofA starts pre-selecting customers for Visa Checkout from online banking

In the latest step at simplifying consumer payments, Bank of America announced today that it will pre-select customers’ eligible Visa cards for enrollment in Visa Checkout directly from Online Banking.

31 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Swiss banks investigate common mobile payments system

Switzerland's five biggest banks are talking to retailers and financial infrastructure provider SIX Group about a joint mobile payments service.

30 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Square targets e-commerce with new API

Square is taking on PayPal and Stripe with a new e-commerce API that enables merchants to process online payments on their own self-hosted, fully developed websites.

30 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Apple preps one-touch shopping for the mobile Web

Apple is preparing to bring one-touch online shopping to the mobile Web later this year, enabling consumers with Safari browsers running on the consumer electronic group's phones and tablets to use Apple Pay and TouchID to make a purchase.

24 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Ingenico on acquisition trail

Ingenico is projecting a $500 million revenue boost from 'targeted acquisitions' in the payment space as it sets out a 2020 turnover objective of EUR4 billion.

24 March 2016

News/E-commerce

BMO introduces MasterCard selfie payments for corporate cardholders

Bank of Montreal (BMO) has teamed up with MasterCard to let Canadian and US corporate cardholders authenticate online payments with their fingerprints and selfies.

23 March 2016

Company update/E-commerce

3dcart merchants to get seamless payment support from Braintree

3dcart, the leading all-in-one eCommerce solution, today announced it is offering seamless payment processing from Braintree, a PayPal company, to make it easier for small and medium-sized retailers to succeed at selling online.

22 March 2016

Company update/E-commerce

BNP Paribas and Ingenico partner for e-commerce currency conversion service

By partnering with Ingenico ePayments, BNP Paribas is the first French bank to support its customers in their online sales development in Europe. E-merchants accept new payment methods in different currency.

22 March 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Vantiv forges card-not-present partnership with Credorax

Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and technology for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, and Credorax, a global merchant acquiring bank, today announced a partnership that bolsters the capabilities of Vantiv’s merchants to serve global consumers via card-not-present channels.

15 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Visa streamlines Checkout for faster mobile commerce

Visa has moved to make its Checkout digital payments service more mobile-friendly by letting e-shoppers complete their purchases by sliding a virtual image of a card across their screens.

11 March 2016

News/E-commerce

Administrators sell failed Powa units

Administrators have found buyers for two units of Powa Technologies, the failed payments startup that once claimed to be worth $2.7 billion.

03 March 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Wirecard acquires Romanian payment provider

Wirecard AG today acquired all shares of the Provus Group which is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania.

29 February 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Signifyd goes for growth with $20 million funding round

Signifyd today announced it has closed $20 million in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures, with additional participation from Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Bill McKiernan and Tim Eades. Pravin Vazirani, a general partner at Menlo Ventures, will also join its Board of Directors.

26 February 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Tsys and Ethoca partner to combat card-not-present fraud

TSYS (TSS), today announced an agreement with Ethoca, a global provider of collaboration-based technology that enables card issuers and ecommerce merchants to stop card-not-present fraud, recover lost revenue and eliminate chargebacks.

25 February 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Dutch banks' Ideal payments platform sees soaring growth

The iDEAL online payment product broke records again in 2015.

25 February 2016

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal expands One Touch to 143 markets; 18 million consumers opt in

One Touch™ with PayPal is one of the most rapidly adopted products PayPal has ever launched.

23 February 2016

News/E-commerce

Following Dutch thumbs up, MasterCard preps major selfie payments roll out

As MasterCard prepares to bring facial recognition payment services to the UK, US and Canada, research shows that the Dutch prefer selfies to passwords for online shopping authentication.

22 February 2016

News/E-commerce

Canada's Interac introduces tokenisation service

Canadian debit network Interac is promising to make digital payments more secure through the introduction of a token generation and management service.

22 February 2016