Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Sberbank invests $500 million in e-commerce joint venture

Sberbank is to spend $500 million to take a 50% stake in Yandex.Market, the e-commerce venture operated by the Russian search engine.

09 August 2017

News/E-commerce

Online retailer Overstock starts accepting Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum

American e-commerce retailer Overstock has doubled down on its cryptocurrency bet, adding Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin to Bitcoin as payments options for nearly four million products on its site.

09 August 2017

News/E-commerce

Bread raise funds for online purchase financing service

Bread, a startup that builds customisable pay-over-time financing options for online merchants, has raised $126 million in equity and debt financing.

03 August 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Eurobank launches Masterpass wallet for online payments

Eurobank, one of the leading banks in Greece, recently launched a mobile wallet integrating Mastercard’s Masterpass, in an effort to reduce abandonment rates in e-commerce payments.

31 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal joins £4 million Cloud IQ round

Today Cloud IQ, the commerce optimisation platform, announces that it has raised a £4m round, including an investment from PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL).

31 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

BofA and PayPal team on in-store payments and account linking

Bank of America [NYSE: BAC] and PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL] today announced a strategic partnership that will soon enable Bank of America customers to transact with PayPal in stores and seamlessly link their Bank of America cards into PayPal.

27 July 2017

News/E-commerce

Ant Financial targets Malaysia through CIMB JV

China's Ant Financial is making a move on the Malaysian market, forming a mobile wallet joint venture with a subsidiary of local bank CIMB.

26 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Wirecard to offer guarantee for credit card payments

Wirecard, the leading supplier of digital payment solutions, will as of now become one of the first companies in the industry to offer a payment guarantee for credit card payments.

24 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Klarna gets Permira investment

Klarna Bank AB is pleased to announce that an investment partnership advised by Permira will acquire a strategic equity stake in the company.

21 July 2017

News/E-commerce

PayPal strikes deals with Chase and Citi

PayPal has strengthened its ties to two of America's biggest banks, forming a comprehensive partnership with JPMorgan Chase and a rewards-focussed deal with Citi.

21 July 2017

News/E-commerce

Diners can now pay for their TGI Friday's order through Amazon

Amazon is further extending its reach into the high street through a new feature that lets customers use its app to pay for in-store and order-ahead purchases.

20 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Mobile payments in Singapore move into the mainstream

The introduction of various mobile payments solutions such as mobile payWave and in-app payments have transformed the way Singaporeans conduct their daily lives – from shopping to booking a taxi to ordering and paying for food in a variety of restaurants.

18 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Visa and PayPal extend partnership to Europe

Visa (NYSE:V) and PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) today announced an extension of their strategic partnership to Europe.

18 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Worldline to acquire Digital River World Payments

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, today announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Digital River World Payments (DRWP), a leading online global payment service provider from Digital River, Inc., a leading global provider of Commerce-as-a-Service solutions.

17 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

CreditPlus applies IDnow eSign to finance shopping carts online

CreditPlus Bank, the consumer credit expert, is now using IDnow eSign to enable their customers to easily and quickly finance their shopping cart online.

13 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal introduces service to help SMBs sell abroad

We’re excited to introduce PayPal Global Sellers, our newest cross-border trade service that helps small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. increase their international presence and sales.

11 July 2017

News/E-commerce

Stripe adds global support for WeChat and Alipay

Digital payments outfit Stripe is introducing global support for Alipay and WeChat Pay, connecting business customers to the hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers that actively use these payment methods.

10 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Visa Checkout comes to Air Canada

Visa today announced the availability of Visa Checkout with Air Canada, Canada's largest airline. With Visa Checkout, Air Canada customers can spend more time planning their trip and less time filling out payment and billing information.

06 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Air Canada welcomes Masterpass onboard

Mastercard today announced that Masterpass is available on Air Canada.com and vacations.aircanada.com, helping travelers get from booking to vacation-mode even faster.

06 July 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Planet Payment and ACI Worldwide launch UnionPay International's SecurePlus

Planet Payment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLPM), a leading provider of international and multi-currency payment processing services, and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced the launch of UnionPay International’s SecurePlus, the latest in UnionPay’s solution set, that will now enable the acceptance of UnionPay debit and credit cards online, with several significant enhancements.

05 July 2017