Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Visa and Oracle to offer merchants feedback on digital advertising

Visa Inc., in partnership with Oracle, today introduced Visa Advertising Solutions, a new suite of products to help merchants understand whether their digital advertising efforts are influencing consumer purchase decisions online and in-stores.

27 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Rakuten.com partners with Payoneer for cross-border payments

Rakuten.com, a leading US eCommerce marketplace, has announced its collaboration with Payoneer, an innovative online payments company transforming the way businesses send and receive cross-border payments.

26 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Commerzbank partners Wirecard to offer financing to e-commerce merchants

The Wirecard Group, a leading supplier of electronic payment and risk management solutions, has entered into a partnership with Commerzbank AG. Wirecard enlarges the portfolio of Commerzbank with easy to integrate online payment solutions for e-commerce, as well as risk management.

23 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Payza launches direct credit card processing to European e-commerce firms

Payza, a global payment platform, has announced today that qualified online businesses and merchants in Europe are eligible for the No Monthly Fee Payza Business account to process Visa and MasterCard payments for rates starting at 2.9%.

22 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Visa upgrades Verified by Visa for a new age of -ecommerce

As more and more shoppers make their purchases online, keeping e-commerce fraud in check — while minimizing interruptions to good customers — is a priority for everyone in payments.

21 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Android Pay comes to TSB

Android Pay is now available to TSB’s debit and credit card customers, providing them a fast, simple and secure way to make payments via their Android device.

20 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Braintree lets European merchants accept UnionPay

At Braintree, we are focused on driving the future of commerce forward by expanding our diverse portfolio of products that lets our merchants accept any payment method their customers want to use.

16 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Time embraces Apple Pay

Time Inc. (TIME) announced today that it is bringing its customers Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient.

14 September 2016

Company update/E-commerce

PayU acquires India's Citrus Pay for $130 million

PayU, the global online payment service provider, today announces that Citrus Pay, a leading Indian payments technology player, will become part of its Indian operation.

14 September 2016

News/E-commerce

Klarna and Arcadia let online shoppers buy now, pay later

Swedish online payments giant Klarna has teamed up with retail group Arcadia to launch a 'buy now, pay later' service for online shoppers in the UK.

13 September 2016

News/E-commerce

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