Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Capital One venture arm joins $33 million funding round in Riskified

Riskified, the world's leading e-commerce fraud-prevention solution, announced today that it secured an additional $33 million of growth stage funding, bringing the company's total funding to $64 million.

29 June 2017

News/E-commerce

Singapore to let banks move into e-commerce

Singapore is changing its regulations to make it easier for banks to move into non-financial but complementary business areas such as e-commerce.

28 June 2017

News/E-commerce

Visa invests in Klarna

Visa is set to buy a stake in Klarna as part of a planned strategic partnership with the Swedish payments firm focussed on pushing online and mobile commerce in Europe.

27 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Ingenico ePayments partners with French fintech SlimPay on Sepa Direct Debit

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, today announced that it has teamed up with French recurring payments specialist Slimpay to support a SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) solution the company is developing for online merchants to simply and securely create and manage the e-mandates required to process SDD payments.

27 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Direct Pay Online acquires PayThru South Africa

Direct Pay Online (DPO) Group, through its South African subsidiary DPO SA, have today announced the acquisition PayThru South Africa, a cloud-based payment gateway that specializes in the integration of mobile devices.

27 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

JCB enters processing partnership with e-commerce PSP MoneyNetInt

JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd, has entered into an agreement with MoneyNetINT Ltd, the global foreign exchange and international payments company, to process JCB transactions for MoneyNetINT e-commerce merchants situated in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).

27 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

First Data introduces local payments offering

The rise of global commerce is creating an increasingly borderless economy, and businesses need to provide the payment method their customers prefer, regardless of regional and cultural preferences.

26 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Wirecard releases AI-powered omnichannel ePOS Suite

Artificial intelligence is shaping the future of retail. Smart algorithms and data analyses are creating sustainable performance benefits across all levels of the retail supply chain.

26 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Stripe lands in six new European countries

Today we’re excited to launch in six more European countries, making all of our products fully available to businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

23 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

SumUp launches omnichannel payment suite

Mobile point-of-sale provider SumUp has announced a major extension of its offer with the launch of a number of new payment functionalities that allow businesses to accept payments online. Merchants can now process payments through a payment form that is sent via SMS to customers as well as via SumUp’s Virtual Terminal in the SumUp Merchant Dashboard on their computer. In addition, merchants can also accept online payments through an integration of SumUp as a payment tool in their web shop.

22 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Ebanx integrates with Chilean payment methods WebPay and Multicaja

Ebanx, a local payments processor in Latin America that already allowed global merchants to reach more than 20 million consumers in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Colombia has completely integrated with the Chilean payment methods WebPay and Multicaja.

21 June 2017

News/E-commerce

Visa launches $100,000 fintech challenge for Middle East and North Africa

Visa has announced that its Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the “next big thing” in payments, will expand into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

21 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

FuturePay joins Salesforce partner programme

FuturePay today announced that it has joined the Salesforce Partner Program in support of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, the fastest path to unified commerce. Commerce Cloud enables brands to provide personalized experiences for shoppers that span web, mobile, social and in-store.

19 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

PSCU turns to Ethoca to battle rising tide of card not present fraud

PSCU is proud to announce a partnership with Ethoca, the leading global provider of collaboration-based technology solutions for card issuers and merchants, to help reduce losses from card not present (CNP) fraud.

07 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Bango enables carrier billing for Amazon purchases

Bango (AIM: BGO), the leading mobile payments company, announces that it has enabled a new payment method for Amazon customers in Japan.

06 June 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Poll: 94 million Americans store their card information online

Concerns about identify theft and credit card fraud aren’t stopping most Americans from storing their credit and debit card information online, a new CreditCards.com report reveals.

01 June 2017

News/E-commerce

Android Pay lands in Canada and Taiwan

Android Pay has arrived in Canada, with several of the country's biggest banks making the mobile payments service available to Mastercard and Visa credit cardholders as well as Interac debit card users.

31 May 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Zain partners Mastercard to boost mobile payments in Jordan

Zain has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, to boost digital payment services in Jordan through ‘Zain Cash’ mobile wallet service powered by Mastercard.

31 May 2017

News/E-commerce

Square Virtual Terminal lands in the UK

Square has launched its Virtual Terminal service in the UK, enabling sellers to take payments directly on their computers.

31 May 2017

Company update/E-commerce

Visa begins build-out for 3-D Secure 2.0

Visa (NYSE:V) today announced upcoming enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account.

30 May 2017