Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

PayPal posts strong Q3 revenue growth

Global technology platform and digital payments leader PayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PYPL) today announced strong third quarter results for the period ended September 30, 2016.

21 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Visa Direct gains momentum

Today Visa (NYSE:V) announced that Visa Direct continues to gain momentum as a faster payments solution through key partnerships with FIS and Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (JKHY) for person-to-person (P2P) payments, and Stripe, Hyperwallet and Ingo Money for faster business and government disbursements.

21 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Moneygram debuts online merchant payments interface

MoneyGram (MGI) today announced MoneyGram Kameleon, a revolutionary turn-key product that offers a customized website for agents looking to offer a seamless money transfer and payment experience, is now available to all U.S. retailers, financial service providers and telcos.

21 October 2016

News/E-commerce

Visa tells Europe to be ready for 3-D Secure 2.0 by April 2018

As EMVCo prepares to unveil a major update to the 3-D Secure specification for authenticating online transactions, Visa says that it expects to set a migration deadline for European merchants of April 2018.

21 October 2016

News/E-commerce

French bank mobile payment apps Wa! and Fivory merge

A pair of mobile payment services backed by two of France's biggest banks - BNP Paribas and Crédit Mutuel - are merging.

20 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Payolution’s ‘buy now, pay later’ service goes live in UK with online retailer Odlo

payolution, a specialist in white-label e-commerce payment solutions, today announces the UK launch of its ‘buy now, pay later’ service.

19 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Mastercard veteran Horst Muller joins allpago’s advisory board

allpago, a leading payment service provider in Latin America, today announced that it has appointed Horst Müller, formerly regional vice president at Mastercard, to its advisory board.

17 October 2016

News/E-commerce

Hackers hit 6000 web stores to steal card data

Crooks have injected malicious code into 5925 online stores, enabling them to steal payment card details, according to a Dutch developer.

14 October 2016

News/E-commerce

Nordea ditches Swipp m-payments for Danske Bank's MobilePay

Nordea is abandoning Swipp, the Danish mobile payments JV it runs with local banks, and hitching its wagon to rival Danske Bank's MobilePay service.

13 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Apple Pay launches in New Zealand with ANZ

ANZ New Zealand today brings its customers Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient.

13 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Klarna rolls out online retailer financing

Today, Klarna, one of Europe’s leading payments providers, has announced the latest wave of partners to offer its financing solution in the UK.

13 October 2016

News/E-commerce

Facebook co-founder Saverin sued over Jumio bankruptcy

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is being sued by a shareholder in Jumio over alleged “misrepresentations and ineptitude” related to the digital ID verification outfit's bankruptcy filing earlier this year.

12 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Judopay makes hires ahead of US push

Judopay, the London based AppCommerce payments platform, today announces key appointments to a new-look leadership team, set to drive the consolidation of Judopay’s leadership in the in-app mobile payments space across EMEA, expansion in the US and also into new mobile and in-app sectors.

11 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

RS2 Software and Alpha Payments Cloud team up in Thailand

Payments processor RS2 Software plc has announced a partnership with Alpha Payments Cloud, a global leader in providing access to payment, risk and commerce solutions to international banks and merchants.

10 October 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Peach Payments embarks on African expansion strategy

Peach Payments, a fintech startup that makes customer payments to online merchants seamless and secure, is now processing more than R1-billion in transactions per year and expanding into Kenya and Nigeria with plans for other African countries.

05 October 2016

News/E-commerce

MasterCard rolls out selfie payments across Europe

MasterCard is launching its Identity Check Mobile technology in 12 European countries, enabling online shoppers to authenticate themselves through facial recognition and fingerprints.

04 October 2016

News/E-commerce

On first anniversary, US becomes Visa's largest chip card market

A year after the official launch of chip payment technology in the US, Visa is claiming steady progress, with the country already its largest EMV card market and fraud rates falling sharply.

30 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

EMVCo and PCI Security Standards Council team on 3-D Secure 2.0

Technical body EMVCo and PCI Security Standards Council have announced that they are collaborating to support the upcoming launch of 3-D Secure 2.0 (3DS 2.0).

29 September 2016

News/E-commerce

Mastercard opens developer gateway

Mastercard is opening up to developers through the launch of a single gateway to a host of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) covering payments, data, security and 'new and experimental' areas such as virtual reality.

28 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Braintree transactions grow 25-fold under PayPal

In September of 2013, we announced that we were being acquired by PayPal. We promised that our vision for the future of payments and white glove service would not change, and that our goal to provide easy access to all the payments tools needed to build beautiful, innovative commerce experiences would be bolstered by us joining PayPal.

28 September 2016