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Attempted online fraud on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving and one of the US's busiest shopping days - was up 40% on the previous year, according to Retail Decisions (ReD).
04 December 2008
Ukash, a digital money outfit that provides pre-paid coupons that can be redeemed for online products and services, is launching in South Africa as it looks to tap the country's large unbanked population.
27 November 2008
Over 60% of Brits who bank online believe they face a greater security threat now than when they first signed up to the service, according to a poll for vendor Xiring.
26 November 2008
Person-to-person online payments outfit PayPal has introduced an optional SMS text message-based two factor authentication system for customers logging into their accounts.
24 November 2008
Person-to-person online payments outfit PayPal has launched localised sites in Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore, enabling customers to conduct transactions in their local currencies.
20 November 2008
Consumers shopping online are increasingly turning away from traditional financial institution-controlled credit and debit cards to embrace cash-based alternative payment options, according to an analysis by US-based Javelin Strategy & Research.
11 November 2008
Ukash has inked a deal with Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica which will see the digital money outfit's vouchers available 24 hours a day from 70,000 telephone kiosks across the country.
31 October 2008
Digital money outfit Ukash says the credit crunch has helped it record a 130% increase in the number of pre-paid vouchers issued in the UK and Europe this September over the same period last year as online shoppers rein in their spending on credit cards.
20 October 2008
The global economic crisis could be good news for one eBay seller who has just placed the domain name afterthebailout.com up for auction on the site - with a starting price of $1 million.
Nearly two thirds of all US consumer payments are now made electronically as Americans increasingly turn away from cash and cheques, according to research from BAI and Hitachi Consulting.
06 October 2008
Online auction house eBay has signed a definitive agreement to acquire alternative online payment scheme Bill Me Later for around $820 million in cash and $125 million worth of outstanding options.
A specialist police unit dedicated to fighting cybercrime and Internet fraud is set to launch next year after the UK government and London's Metropolitan Police Service committed funding to the project.
01 October 2008
The increasing popularity of online payment providers like PayPal and Amazon Checkout, combined with the emergence of mobile commerce, threatens to leave banks lagging in the e-commerce world, according to Cisco.
29 September 2008
UK payments firm DataCash has invested around $7 million in Smart Voucher, a digital money outfit that provides pre-paid coupons that can be redeemed for online products and services.
25 September 2008
After failing in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal, online auction house eBay is setting its sights on US users that pay by cheque and money order.
24 September 2008
Cardholder take-up of the MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa online authentication services has increased by 600% over the past two years, according to stats from UK payments group Apacs.
22 September 2008
A group of five payment network operators from Europe and North America are coming together in a bid to establish common standards and rules for global interoperability of online payment networks.
11 September 2008
Canadian pre-paid card outfit Mint Technology has become the latest firm to tap Facebook, targeting teenage gamers through the social networking site.
03 September 2008
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is looking to halt attempts by online auction house eBay to force sellers in the country to offer PayPal as a payments option on sales listings.
20 August 2008
Although the UK's high streets have been hit hard by the credit crunch, sales via the Internet are continuing to soar and will eventually account for more than half of all retail transactions by 2026, according to UK comparison site uSwitch.
12 August 2008
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