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Around 60% of UK online retailers do not know whether they are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), according to a survey from Sage Pay.
02 June 2009
E-commerce outfit SocialWise has launched a system that enable children to make purchases online by "billing" their parents.
18 May 2009
Approximately two thirds of people around the world think the global recession has put them at greater risk of identity theft and fraud, according to research from IT vendor Unisys.
20 April 2009
Actus, a recently formed US holding company, is suing 20 companies, including Bank of America, MasterCard, Obopay and Visa, accusing them of infringing four patents related to an electronic payments system for e-commerce.
17 April 2009
PayPal has seen the number of visitors to its UK Web site rise by 50% over the last 12 months, strengthening its position as the country's most popular financial portal.
01 April 2009
California-based digital security firm VeriSign has launched a free application on the Apple App store that turns an iPhone into a one-time-password generator for accessing online accounts.
On the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, its creator, Tim Berners-Lee has revealed he is among the millions of users to have fallen victim to online scammers.
16 March 2009
With its core business stagnating, online auction house eBay has outlined plans to turn its attention to the fast-growing PayPal, which is expected to double revenues within three years.
12 March 2009
Bank of America is looking to attract recession-hit customers with the launch of a new Web site that allows users to earn cash back on purchases at a host of online retailers.
10 March 2009
European online payments outfit Moneybookers has been put up for sale by Bahrain-based private equity group Investcorp, according to the Financial Times.
09 March 2009
Subscription billing and payments start-up Zuora has launched Z-Commerce for Facebook, a tool that lets developers charge for applications on the social networking site.
03 March 2009
Security fears are stunting the growth of e-commerce in the UK, with refusenik consumers citing media scare stories and personal accounts of online credit card fraud as reasons for not shopping on the Web.
12 February 2009
Over 12 million Brits - one in four of the population - have fallen victim to credit or debit card fraud, according to a report from life assistance company CPP. However the figures - initially presented as a year-on-year number - have been labelled "wildly out of line" by payments association Apacs.
29 January 2009
California-based mobile payments outfit Obopay has launched three widgets that can be simply attached to Web pages to make it easy to send and receive money online.
13 January 2009
Online auction site eBay is adding two new approved payments methods for its US customers after striking deals with Australia's Paymate and UK-based Moneybookers.
09 January 2009
Visa has partnered with banks in China and Taiwan to introduce an SMS-based one-time password system for cardholders to authenticate themselves when making online purchases.
17 December 2008
Police in Dubai have arrested three men accused of stealing more than Dh223 million (around £40 million) after obtaining credit card information used in online transactions.
16 December 2008
UK start-up Voice Commerce Group has launched a payments processing service for TV and IPTV advertisers that lets customers phone up and buy products by 'signing' for the transaction with their voice.
15 December 2008
US e-commerce merchants expect online fraud to cost them a record $4 billion this year, up from $3.7 billion in 2007, according to a survey from electronic payments outfit CyberSource.
10 December 2008
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
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