Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Company update/payments

BR-DGE connects with American Express for open banking payments

BR-DGE, the rapidly growing payment orchestration provider, has announced a partnership with American Express to enhance the Open Banking capabilities for merchants.

10 May 2023

Company update/payments

Neonomics open banking checkout tech goes live in Denmark

Neonomics, a leading Nordic open banking provider, has expanded the launch of their core open banking driven Checkout solution to the Danish market.

09 May 2023

Company update/payments

Standard Chartered expands plartnership with Tazapay

Standard Chartered and global payments platform Tazapay today announced a global partnership to deliver best in class payments and commerce enabling experiences as part of the Bank’s broader initiative to provide curated financial services on B2B platforms.

08 May 2023

Company update/security

Moonsense lands $4.2 million in seed funding

Fraud prevention innovator Moonsense has announced they have raised $4.2 million in seed funding and the general availability of its user behavioral and network intelligence solution to help organizations future-proof their fraud detection and prevention.

04 May 2023

News/payments

Stripe to power Microsoft Teams payments for businesses

Microsoft has teamed up with Stripe to let North American businesses accept payments directly in Microsoft Teams.

01 May 2023

News/retail

NextGen Nordics: Managing innovation risk with regulation and education

Rounding out the NextGen Nordics’ afternoon sessions, Anna Milne, editor at Finextra, took to the stage for a fireside chat with Einar Eidsson, product director, for buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider, indó iceland.

27 April 2023

News/payments

Amazon Pay rolls out Citi Flex Pay to give credit card users instalment option

Citi credit card holders can now pay in instalments when using Amazon Pay during checkout at thousands of online shopping sites.

27 April 2023

News/retail

Klarna unveils AI-powered personalised shopping feed

Klarna continues to broaden its scope beyond BNPL, unveiling an AI-powered shopping feed, a "personal shopper" and new selling tools for retailers and creators.

25 April 2023

News/markets

IFGS 2023: Singapore seeks coordinated and global approach to fintech

In the fireside chat with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), chief fintech officer, Sopnendu Mohanty, discussed the current financial landscape in Singapore and the fintech developments in the region with moderator Sasha Qadri.

19 April 2023

Company update/payments

E-commerce checkout platform Rally raises $12 million

Rally, the leading composable checkout platform for ecommerce merchants, announced its $12M Series A investment, led by March Capital with additional participation from Felix Capital, Commerce Ventures, Afore Capital, Alumni Ventures, and Kraken Ventures.

19 April 2023

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UOB signs MoU with e-commerce platform Lazada

UOB and Lazada Group have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on retail products and banking solutions for their combined customer base in five key Southeast Asian markets, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

18 April 2023

Company update/payments

Adyen brings Unified Commerce to Malaysia

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today launches its Unified Commerce solution in Malaysia to help businesses flexibly meet ever-evolving consumer expectations.

18 April 2023

News/devops

IFGS 2023: Andrew Griffith MP announces AI and open finance ambitions for UK

Economic secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Griffith MP, spoke in a keynote speech outlining the government’s ambitions for the fintech industry during day one of the Innovate Finance Global Summit 2023.

18 April 2023

Company update/payments

Floodlight raises $6.4m

Floodlight, the smart business account for e-commerce, announced today that it has raised a $6.4M seed funding round.

17 April 2023

Company update/payments

Riskified and Deloitte help e-commerce merchants analyse fraud exposure

Riskified (NYSE:RSKD), a leader in eCommerce risk intelligence, today announced its partnership with Deloitte, a leader in fraud and financial crime advisory services, to empower merchants with real-time insight into how their chargebacks, approval rates and fraud costs compare to similar companies in their space.

13 April 2023

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Digital River debuts pay later options from Afterpay and Clearpay

Digital River, an experienced global commerce enabler for established and fast-growing brands, today announced it is now offering Afterpay and Clearpay to address growing consumer interest in buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) options.

11 April 2023

News/payments

South Africa's Peach Payments raises $31m

South African online payments firm Peach Payments is looking to enter new markets after securing $31 million in funding led by Apis Growth Fund II.

05 April 2023

News/payments

Citi Digital Money Symposium: How are FIs leveraging data to meet consumer demand?

Finextra attended the Citi Digital Money Symposium, which brought together experts from all over the industry to discuss innovation and emerging trends across the online payments sector in 2023. The conference looked at the challenges that could arise as the payments ecosystem becomes increasingly digital.

31 March 2023

News/payments

Singapore and Malaysia launch cross-border QR-code merchant payments

Singapore and Malaysia have linked their payment systems, enabling shoppers to make purchases across borders by scanning QR codes.

31 March 2023

Company update/payments

Alipay launches incentive plan to support service provider partners

On March 29, 2023, the Alipay platform announced an incentive plan worth 10 billion RMB (approximately 1.45 billion USD) to further support its service provider partners (ISVs).

29 March 2023