2472 articles tagged with this keyword
News/E-commerce
American Express has hired eBay executive Neal Sample to join the technology team responsible for its digital commerce platform, Serve.
03 April 2012
PayPal has replaced Scott Thompson, who quit as president in January, with its current mobile chief David Marcus, who joined the eBay unit last year when it acquired his direct carrier billing operator Zong.
29 March 2012
The EC is planning to create a European cybercrime centre to help protect the continent's citizens and businesses from a threat that claims one million victims around the world every day.
Visa Europe is set to take a 15% equity stake in Mobile Money Network (MMN), a joint venture between Monitise, retailer Best Buy Europe and Carphone Warehouse founder Charles Dunstone.
07 March 2012
Bank Machine and Ukash have struck a deal that will enable Brits to withdraw cash at ATMs without their cards.
02 March 2012
Telco Orange has signed a deal that enables it to incorporate Visa pre-paid accounts within its mobile money service for customers in Africa and the Middle East.
29 February 2012
Boku has unveiled a platform that lets customers make online and contactless in-store point-of-sale payments through their mobile network operator.
23 February 2012
MasterCard has launched a mobile money partnership programme designed to bring financial services to underbanked people in developing markets.
PayPal is opening a European operations centre in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, creating 1000 jobs over the next four years.
21 February 2012
Bitcoin's tribulations continue, with e-wallet provider Paxum ceasing all business involving the virtual currency after coming under pressure from MasterCard and banks, and major exchange TradeHill shutting down.
20 February 2012
MasterCard is set to open a global technologies office in Dublin, creating 130 jobs in the Republic of Ireland's capital.
15 February 2012
MasterCard has forged an exclusive deal with Silver Tail Systems to provide Web merchants with better tools for detecting online shopping fraud.
08 February 2012
Transactional advertising outfit TrialPay has secured $40 million in a funding round joined by payments giant Visa.
31 January 2012
Following the lead of rival Visa, MasterCard has set out plans to push the United States into abandoning mag-stripe cards in favour of EMV chip technology.
A Dutch retail association has hit out at ING, claiming ongoing problems with the bank's iDEAL payments system has cost its members millions of euros.
25 January 2012
American Express has licensed its Serve digital wallet platform to Chinese mobile top-up provider Lianlian Group and made a $125 million equity investment in the firm's overseas unit.
18 January 2012
Around £1 in every £3 in the UK was spent on Visa cards in 2011, with growth in debit and e-commerce payments fuelling a strong year for the European card scheme, which is now training its sights on mobile services.
17 January 2012
Jumio, a US start-up that has developed a system to turn Web cams and smartphone cameras into credit card readers, has raised $25.5 million.
12 January 2012
The European Commission has published its green paper on how Europe can break down barriers to an integrated market for card, Internet and mobile payments.
11 January 2012
PayPal has taken another step in its journey to the high street, beginning a pilot of its new point-of-sale technology with US retail giant Home Depot.
09 January 2012
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.