Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

UBA to launch virtual card platform across African markets

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced a deal with Ixaris and its Nigerian partner “Ojapay” to deploy a virtual card platform across its twenty African markets.

28 October 2014

Company update/E-commerce

American Express launches SafeKey in South Africa

American Express has announced the availability of its 3-D Secure authentication tool SafeKey in South Africa, intended to improve the security of online transactions.

23 October 2014

News/E-commerce

Apple Pay launches

Apple Pay enjoyed a relatively smooth launch in the US today, with customers of some of the country's biggest banks able to use their iPhones to make purchases at a host of bricks-and-mortar and virtual stores.

20 October 2014

News/E-commerce

Apple Pay to launch on Monday; banks rush to sign up

Apple Pay will launch in the US on Monday, enabling Americans to use their iPhones to make payments at the likes of Target, Uber, Groupon, and Starbucks.

16 October 2014

News/E-commerce

W3C standards body looks to improve web payments

The World Wide Web standards organisation, W3C, is bringing together banks, retailers and tech firms in an effort to develop standards for payments on the open web.

15 October 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Payvision eases PCI compliance with ControlScan partnership

Payvision, an independent global card processor and one of the fastest-growing Global Acquiring networks in the payments industry, and ControlScan, a leading provider of integrated security and compliance solutions, have today announced a partnership to assist PSPs, ISOs and their merchants in understanding and meeting the requirements needed to validate and maintain Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance in a faster and more efficient way.

14 October 2014

News/E-commerce

Japanese messaging outfit Line moves into payments

Japanese messaging giant Line has become the latest social media player to enter the payments market, unveiling a service for both online and in-store transactions.

13 October 2014

News/E-commerce

Pay-by-fridge: Canadians ready for mobile money and more

Forget mobile payments, many Canadians are ready to shop through their internet-enabled fridges and chips implanted in their fingers.

08 October 2014

Company update/E-commerce

GoDaddy partners with Stripe for small business sales

GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, announced a partnership with Stripe, a leading online payments provider.

03 October 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Worldline to use MyBank Mandates for Sepa compliance

Worldline [Euronext:WLN], European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, introduces electronic mandate services for SEPA Direct Debits (SDD) supporting MyBank, an Online Banking ePayment (OBeP) solution for e/m/commerce.

29 September 2014

Company update/E-commerce

First Data partners eWay to expand Australian business into Asia

First Data, the global leader in payments technology and services solutions, and eWAY, a global leader in eCommerce, today announced a strategic alliance that will enable more Australian businesses to expand into Asia’s rapidly growing eCommerce markets.

29 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Visa creates 2000 full-time tech jobs

Visa is ramping up its tech investment, creating 2000 full-time technologist positions and opening a development centre in India.

24 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Amazon shuts down P2P payments service

Amazon is killing off WebPay, admitting that the person-to-person money transfer service is not good enough to keep persevering with.

16 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Visa begins tokenisation roll out

Visa has taken advantage of the hoopla surrounding Apple's application of digital account tokens to replace card numbers for online and mobile purchasing by initiating the roll out of its Token Service to US clients.

10 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Barclaycard buys The Logic Group

Barclaycard is boosting its capabilities in the lucrative rewards market through the acquisition of payments and loyalty specialist The Logic Group. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

08 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Australia's eftpos takes on PayPal with online payments system

Australian point-of-sale payments provider eftpos is moving online, testing a new system for web-purchases at supermarket chain Coles.

02 September 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Skrill Group hire's Skype's Neil Ward as chief product and marketing officer

Skrill Group today announces the appointment of Neil Ward as Group Chief Product and Marketing Officer (CPMO).

01 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Amazon hires Visa's Talwar to lead lending business

Amazon has hired Visa's North America credit card head Nick Talwar to run its business providing capital to sellers on its marketplace.

29 August 2014

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal and Braintree launch v.zero SDK to six new countries

Innovation happens everywhere. But when it’s supported by the right tools, it can happen much faster and more seamlessly. The right platform can help unlock and support innovation that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

27 August 2014

News/E-commerce

EBay ponders PayPal spin-off - report

Shares in eBay rose nearly five per cent yesterday afternoon off the back of a media report that the online auction house could spin off its PayPal unit as early as next year.

22 August 2014