Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

North American mobile payments usage stagnates

Apple and Google may have boosted awareness of mobile payments in North America over the last year, but actual usage has remained flat, according to a survey from Accenture.

20 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

PayPoint launches mobile SDK

PayPoint, an international leader in payment technologies, today announces the availability of its new mobile software development kit (SDK).

20 October 2015

News/E-commerce

MasterCard tokenises MasterPass

MasterCard is promising to boost security for online and in-app shoppers by tokenising its MasterPass digital wallet.

19 October 2015

News/E-commerce

UK set to make 120 million payments a day by 2024

Brits will make 120 million payments a day by 2024, as a steep decline in the use of cash is offset by the rise of contactless cards and the Faster Payments service, predicts an industry trade association.

15 October 2015

News/E-commerce

MasterCard brings Safety Net hacker-fighting tool to Europe

MasterCard has brought its Safety Net technology, which taps into the card giant's global network to help protect banks and payment processors from hackers, to Europe.

15 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Computop and CardinalCommerce team up to fight e-commerce fraud

Computop, a leading payment service provider (PSP), and CardinalCommerce, the global leader and pioneer in the remote payments industry since 1999, today announced a global strategic partnership that will help retailers improve their authorization rates and reduce their fraud risk.

14 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal expands return shipping service

Today, PayPal announced the expansion of Return Shipping on Us, a service that refunds return shipping costs to consumers on eligible online purchases using PayPal from around the globe.

13 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Wirecard Checkout Portal advances on Eastern Europe

Wirecard is rolling out its Checkout Portal in Eastern Europe and will be offering payment solutions in combination with Google services.

13 October 2015

News/E-commerce

China and India drive non-cash payments growth

Global non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly nine per cent in 2014, as massive emerging markets such as China and India begin to go electronic and mobile money takes off in developed countries, according to the latest annual World Payments Report from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland.

06 October 2015

News/E-commerce

From biometrics to one-time passcodes, MasterCard preps Identity Check suite

MasterCard is rolling out a suite of card security measures for online commerce - from 'pay by selfie' biometrics to SMS-delivered one-time passwords - under the brand Identity Check.

06 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Visa Checkout comes to delivery.com

delivery.com, one of the nation's leading online ordering platforms and delivery services, recently announced that it will begin offering Visa Checkout on its website and mobile apps.

05 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Alipay comes to Checkout.com

Checkout.com’s collaboration with Alipay expands its offering of online payment solutions within its unified platform.

02 October 2015

News/E-commerce

BNP Paribas to pilot cards with dynamic CVV codes

BNP Paribas has become the latest French bank to pilot Oberthur's OT Motion Code technology, replacing the three-figure CVV code on the rear of a card with a small screen display that automatically changes periodically.

02 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Discover comes to Checkout.com

Online payments provider Checkout.com, and Diners Club, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, today announced that all Checkout.com merchants will have the opportunity to accept sales from cards running on the Discover Global Network starting on October 2.

01 October 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Shopping app Ibotta raises $40m

Ibotta, Inc., the leading U.S. retail shopping app that gives users cash back when they shop, received $40 million in Series C funding led by Jim Clark to help aggressively scale its mobile loyalty platform.

30 September 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Twitter expands 'buy' button

Today we’re excited to announce a number of partnerships that will make it easier for retailers of any size to sell products, digital goods, or services directly within a Tweet via Buy Now.

30 September 2015

News/E-commerce

Payments firm Adyen scores funding at $2.3bn valuation

An investment fund backed by some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, has put money into Adyen in a deal that sees the Dutch payments processing firm valued at $2.3 billion.

30 September 2015

News/E-commerce

US gears up for EMV switch deadline

Despite the fact that the majority of Americans still do not have EMV payment cards ahead of tomorrow's deadline for a switch from magstripe, an industry taskforce insists that the migration is "on track".

30 September 2015

Company update/E-commerce

Poles back contactless payments - SIA survey

Today in Warsaw during the “Accelerating the payment transformation” conference, aiming to explore the future of the payments industry in Poland, the SIA survey carried out by ARC Rynek i Opinia was presented.

29 September 2015

News/E-commerce

Alibaba takes 40% stake in India's Paytm

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba and its financial services subsidiary Ant Financial have made a further investment in Indian mobile commerce network Paytm, raising its stake in the booming business to 40%.

29 September 2015