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Facebook Messenger adds chatbot payments support

Facebook is taking its recently launched Messenger chatbot platform to the next level, letting bots accept payments without having to send users to external sites.

12 September 2016

News/E-commerce

Visa turns spotlight on payments at Toronto International Film Festival

Visa is hoping to bring a little Hollywood glamour to the world of payments, using the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) as a showcase for its latest technology.

12 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

American Express joins $19 million Signifyd funding round

Signifyd, the fastest-growing provider of fraud protection for e-commerce businesses, today announced it has secured $19 million in capital from Menlo Ventures, TriplePoint Capital and American Express Ventures.

09 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Affirm tailors financing programmes for e-commerce retailers

Affirm, Inc., the company started by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin to deliver consumers honest financial products, announced that Affirm Multiple Financing Programs (MFP), which enables ecommerce retailers to tie financing options to different products, product categories and cart types, are now available.

08 September 2016

News/E-commerce

Apple Pay set for Japan launch thanks to Felica support

Apple Pay is adding support for the Felica contactless RFID technology in preparation for its launch in Japan at the end of next month.

07 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Android Pay comes to Chase Visa cardholders

Beginning today, Chase Visa consumer credit and debit cardholders can now use Android Pay to make simple and secure payments in stores and in mobile apps.

07 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

MasterCard bigs up MasterPass

As the share of digital payments in Europe keeps on growing to reach 38% of payments by 2020, the continued transformation of Mastercard to an even more digital company is driven by the rapid growth, support and success of Masterpass, the company’s digital payment service.

07 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

OT Motion Code cards make headway in Japan

OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products and services, and Toppan (Toppan Printing), one of Japan’s leading printing companies, announced during the FIT exhibition in Tokyo, their partnership to provide Japanese cardholders with OT MOTION CODETM, a dynamic cryptogram payment card, and with COSMO OTP, a payment card that generates One-time passwords (OTP).

07 September 2016

News/E-commerce

PayPal targets the high street through MasterCard deal

Following a similar agreement with Visa, PayPal has struck a deal with MasterCard that will help the e-commerce specialist step up its attack on the bricks-and mortar market.

06 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal names Paul Parisi GM, Canada

PayPal announced the appointment of Paul Parisi as the new general manager of PayPal Canada, effective today. Paul is a results-focused Canadian leader who joins PayPal with a strong record of more than 17 years in the payments industry.

06 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Sound payments: China Unionpay to issue 'Audio Bank Cards'

On August 22, 2016, Qilong and Shenzhen Qianhai Exce-card Technology ("SQEC") entered into a strategic agreement, pursuant to which both parties will coordinate with banks to issue China Union Pay audio bank cards (the "Audio Bank Cards"), which can make sounds when the buttons on the Audio Bank Cards are pressed.

01 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Payworks revamps for next generation payments

Today, Payworks officially announced the launch of Pulse, a next generation payment gateway technology.

30 August 2016

News/E-commerce

Samsung Pay hits 100m transaction mark on first anniversary

A year after launch, Samsung Pay has been used to make around 100 million unique transactions in seven countries, with the electronic giant's home market of South Korea leading the way.

24 August 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Blockchain Foundry for e-commerce launched

Blockchain Foundry Inc. today announces its establishment as a leading developer of blockchain solutions for businesses and individual consumers.

22 August 2016

News/E-commerce

Singapore makes cashless payments push

Singapore is set to introduce a payments system similar to the UK's Paym, which will let people send money using only recipients' mobile numbers, as part of a concerted effort to wean the city state off of cash.

19 August 2016

News/E-commerce

Online shopping fuels sharp rise in UK card fraud

UK card fraud losses climbed by 18% in 2015, the sharpest rise in Europe, driven by online shopping and data breaches.

04 August 2016

News/E-commerce

Alibaba and AXA form insurance pact

AXA has formed an alliance with Alibaba that will see the French insurance firm develop products and services for the Chinese e-commerce behemoth's customers.

29 July 2016

News/E-commerce

MasterCard and PayPal hold talks about alliance - FT

MasterCard and PayPal have engaged in a "constructive dialogue" about a possible strategic alliance, according to a report in the Financial Times.

29 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

African banks losing their share of payment space - report

Traditional banks are poised to lose as much as 50% of their ownership of the payment space by the end of 2016.

29 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Vietnam banks to start issuing JCB credit cards

JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced that Takashimaya Company, Limited (Takashimaya) and the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) will start issuing JCB credit cards on July 30, 2016.

29 July 2016