Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

US mobile banking on the rise - Fed study

Nearly 40% of banked Americans that have mobile phones now use their handsets to access their accounts, according to research from the Federal Reserve Board.

27 March 2015

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Optimal Payments agrees EUR1.1bn Skrill acquisition

London-listed Optimal Payments has agreed to buy Skrill Group for an enterprise value of around EUR1.1 billion in a deal it says will create a major global player in online payments and digital wallet services.

23 March 2015

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Alibaba unveils 'smile-to-pay' tech

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is developing facial recognition technology that enables mobile shoppers to replace their passwords with selfies.

16 March 2015

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Apple Pay shows steep consumer adoption curve

The Apple effect on mobile payments uptake in the US is thrown into relief by a new survey of iPhone 6 users by Auriemma Consulting, which shows that fully 42% have tried Apple Pay, with three quarters of the sample going on to make repeat purchases.

12 March 2015

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Alibaba advances on Europe with iwoca and ezbob tie-up

Alibaba has enlisted the help of two UK working capital startups to provide micro-financing to European firms wishing to buy from Chinese suppliers.

11 March 2015

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EPC lays out framework for handling card-not-present transactions

The European Payments Council has drawn up a blueprint for the creation of an interoperable card and terminal infrastructure to handle card-not-present transactions across the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa).

10 March 2015

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PayPal's Schulman lays out plan to rule the digital commerce world

Incoming chief Dan Schulman has set out his vision for turning PayPal from a button on a website into the operating system for digital commerce.

06 March 2015

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Madrid's public transport system to trial mobile NFC ticketing

Madrid's public transport system operator is working with Telefonica, Samsung and Gemalto to pilot mobile NFC ticketing.

04 March 2015

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Visa to buy offers specialist TrialPay

Visa has struck an agreement to acquire American transactional advertising outfit TrialPay. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

27 February 2015

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Startup profile: VoguePay's African ambitions

With offices in Lagos and London, VoguePay is looking to build a payment processing bridge connecting Africa's one billion people to the global market. Founders Geoffrey Weli Wosu and Michael Simeon speak to Finextra about their startup.

24 February 2015

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Stripe offers bitcoin payments through a single line of code

Digital payments upstart Stripe has added support for bitcoin, enabling merchants to accept the crypto-currency through just a single line of code.

20 February 2015

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Greek banks sign up to MyBank

The four biggest banks in Greece are to adopt EBA Clearing's MyBank service to fulfill customer online shopping transactions direct from the banks' websites.

18 February 2015

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Finextra Future Money returns for 2015

Created as the premier event bringing both the most innovative minds in banking together with the exploding FinTech community, Finextra Future Money returns to London on April 21 and 22 for an exciting two day event.

16 February 2015

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Finovate Europe 2015 - Day 2 Roundup

The second and final day of Finovate Europe saw 32 startups take the stage to try and impress a packed crowd of fintech VCs, journalists, bankers and experts. PFM, mobile payments and wealth management all made an appearance, often to a critical audience - while other firms attempted to push the boundaries of fintech, causing a huge buzz within Old Billingsgate and on social media.

11 February 2015

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Icici unveils Pockets mobile wallet

As it prepares to face a host of new competitors, Icici Bank has set out its pitch to India's millennials with a new mobile wallet called Pockets.

11 February 2015

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PayPal's offline chief quits

The man behind PayPal's move into the bricks and mortar world, Don Kingsborough, has quit the firm, admitting it has come up short in its efforts to move beyond online payments.

04 February 2015

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Google Wallet gets first payment platform partner for Instant Buy API

E-commerce payment processor WePay has integrated with Google's Instant Buy API, a service that lets Google Wallet users check out in just two clicks on mobile and web without exposing their sensitive information to third parties.

26 January 2015

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Half of US retailers unprepared for EMV migration deadline - survey

With only nine months to go until the US EMV migration deadline, more than half of retailers are not ready for the switch, according to a survey from ACI Worldwide.

23 January 2015

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Kickstarter leaves Amazon Payments for Stripe

Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has ditched long-standing payments partner Amazon and signed up with Stripe in a move designed to make life easier for both project creators and backers.

06 January 2015

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MBNA to be first UK card issuer to deploy MasterCard digital wallet

MBNA is to be the UK’s first card issuer to offer a MasterPass powered digital wallet to its customers for online shopping.

17 December 2014