Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Modern customers, modern payments: Addressing a changing e-commerce landscape

14 January 2025

Company update/payments

Telr and Apaya target digital commerce growth in Mena

Telr, the award-winning online payment gateway in the MENA, serving over 30,000 merchants across the region, today announced a strategic partnership with Apaya, the leading commerce automation platform in the Middle East and Africa.

09 January 2025

Company update/security

Irish data privacy firm Dataships closes $7 million Series A

Dataships, an Irish data privacy software and services company which specialises in automating GDPR and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) compliance for eCommerce clients, today announced that it has closed a $7 million (€6.8 million) Series A funding round.

09 January 2025

News/regulation

Latin American payments platform dLocal wins UK licence

Latin American cross-border payments platform dLocal is expanding in the UK after securing an authorised payment institution licence from the FCA.

09 January 2025

News/payments

Bank-backed EPI processes first e-commerce transactions

The European Payments Initiative (EPI), a bank-backed venture that was initially set up to build a rival to Mastercard and Visa in Europe, has completed its first e-commerce transactions, paving the way for a full-scale roll out later this year.

07 January 2025

News/payments

DLocal explores sale - Reuters

Unicorn Latin American cross-border payments platform dLocal is exploring a potential sale, according to Reuters.

06 January 2025

News/payments

Digital payments on the rise in Europe, but cash still king at POS

While the use of digital payments continues to rise in the euro area, cash is still responsible for more than half of all point-of-sale transactions, according to a European Central Bank study.

06 January 2025

News/regulation

UK regulator PSR plans cap on cross-border card fees

The Payment Systems Regulator is pushing ahead with plans to introduce a price cap on the fees Visa and Mastercard charge UK merchants when European shoppers make online purchases.

13 December 2024

News/payments

10 trends that will impact payments in 2025, according to Mastercard

In this preview of a Mastercard report being released in early 2025, leaders at the card processer say that generative AI is emerging as critical to boosting fraud protection rates by as much as 300%.

13 December 2024

Company update/E-commerce

Klarna now available at checkout on Apple Pay in-app and online in Canada

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, is now available to users in Canada checking out on Apple Pay online and in apps with iPhone and iPad on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 or later.

11 December 2024

Company update/payments

BofA rolls out Paze online checkout option to cardholders

In time for the holiday season, all eligible Bank of America credit and debit cards are now enabled with PazeSM, a fast and streamlined online checkout solution.

06 December 2024

Company update/security

Mastercard Payment Passkey debuts in Latin America

Mastercard has partnered with Sympla, the leading events platform in Brazil, and Yuno, a global payments orchestrator based in Latin America, to bring its Payment Passkey Service to the region and accelerate secure online checkout for shoppers.

05 December 2024

News/inclusion

US agencies provide advice for combatting elder financial exploitation

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and state financial regulators issued a joint statement this week.

04 December 2024

News/crime

5 most common fraud methods in 2024, according to AIB

‘Smishing’ accounts for 94% of all fraud cases from January to October this year.

04 December 2024

Company update/payments

MyFatoorah partners Mastercard on Middle East digital payment gateway platform

MyFatoorah, a leading payments platform and the only payment service provider (PSP) licensed in all GCC countries offering payment solutions across the Middle East, has announced its strategic collaboration with Mastercard to introduce new digital payment gateway platform, powered by Mastercard Gateway.

29 November 2024

Company update/payments

Yuno enables Mastercard Click to Pay

Yuno, a leading global payment orchestrator, announces that Mastercard's Click to Pay at checkout is now available to all Yuno clients.

27 November 2024

News/crime

53% of APP victims were satisfied with their bank’s response

To mark International Fraud Awareness Week, Payments System Regulator (PSR) has released research on the impact of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud on UK consumers.

22 November 2024

News/payments

Google Pay integrates with Afterpay and Klarna

BNPL firms Klarna and Afterpay are both set to become payments options on Google Pay in the US.

20 November 2024

Company update/payments

City Bank revamps e-commerce acquiring business with Compass Plus Technologies

City Bank, one of Bangladesh's leading financial institutions, has successfully migrated its e-commerce acquiring business to a cutting-edge payment gateway from Compass Plus Technologies.

19 November 2024

Company update/payments

Boku and Amazon Japan ink payments deal

Boku (AIM: BOKU), a leading global provider of mobile payment solutions, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new commercial agreement (“New Agreement”) with Amazon Japan G.K. (“Amazon JP”) to supply digital wallet and other local payment methods to Amazon JP.

18 November 2024