Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Satispay connects smartphones to cash registers

Satispay, a young Italian company that has radically redefined mobile payments, has reached a new milestone by allowing a direct and fast communication between the stores’ cash registers and the app on their customers’ smartphones.

22 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal reports Q2 earnings rise

Global technology platform and payments leader PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016.

21 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Rivals Visa and PayPal set out on 'new path'

PayPal has agreed to make it easier for customers to pay with their Visa cards in exchange for long-term "fee certainty" from the card scheme.

21 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

SlimPay launches US operations to support US merchant growth in Europe

SlimPay, the recurring payments specialist that make payments simpler for customers and smarter for merchants, today announced the launch of its US operations based in San Francisco.

21 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Visa onboard for Apple Pay's Hong Kong debut

Visa, a leading global payments technology company, announced that starting from today eligible Visa cardholders in Hong Kong will be able to use Apple Pay and begin to make purchases at selected merchants.

20 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Secure Trading converts to Fexco

Secure Trading, the UK’s leading independent payment processor, has joined forces with FEXCO to deliver Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) as it targets a broader range of international markets.

20 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Barclays launches digital banking hackathon with MuleSoft

MuleSoft, provider of the leading platform for building application networks, today announced that it has partnered with Barclays to host a digital banking hackathon.

20 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Festipay launches limited edition MasterCard prepaid card at the Sziget Festival

The pre-loadable Festipay Prepaid Card, which is accepted at all MasterCard acceptance points and is proper for online use, will have its debut at the Sziget Festival.

20 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Worldpay's payments glitch rumbles on

UK payment processing firm Worldpay is experiencing ongoing problems issuing payments despite promising to work with clients to resolve the software issue.

20 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Absa launches Masterpass app

Absa has launched the Absa Masterpass App, a digital wallet powered by Mastercard, enabling South Africans to make safe and easy payments wherever Masterpass is accepted.

19 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Apple Pay lands in France

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) Today, Visa announced that Visa debit and credit cardholders from French banks Banque Populaire et Caisse d’Epargne (BPCE group) now have access to Apple Pay which launches today.

19 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Polish online payment firms Dotpay and eCard merge

Dotpay and eCard, MCI.EuroVentures fund portfolio companies, fast growing agents specialising in online electronic payments, are to join forces.

18 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Western Union expands digital trading platform to new markets

Western Union Business Solutions, a business segment of The Western Union Company (WU) and a leader in global payment services, today announces enhanced capabilities to its WU® EDGE digital trading platform, including expansion of the platform’s fee-free* network, and availability into seven new markets: Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.

18 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Lloyds Bank launches mentoring service for fintechs

Lloyds Banking Group has become the latest UK high street bank to launch a mentoring service for fintech startups.

18 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

MasterCard goes all in on digital with MasterPass

In an important industry milestone, Mastercard today unveiled the foundation for the future of commerce with the new Masterpass global digital payment service.

14 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Yandex puts checkout on live chat

Yandex.Checkout has launched built-in chat payments for online stores.

14 July 2016

News/E-commerce

The best is yet to come for Europe's payments firms - Citi

The profound change underway in the payments industry is good news for some of Europe's biggest fintech firms, including Gemalto and Ingenico, which are set to benefit from years of "secular tailwinds", according to research from Citi.

14 July 2016

News/E-commerce

Europeans keen to secure payments with biometrics

More than two thirds of Europeans want to use biometrics as a method of payment authentication, with convenience and security the main reason for its popularity, a Visa survey shows.

14 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Samsung Pay launches in Puerto Rico

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico.

12 July 2016

Company update/E-commerce

Android Pay comes to Grubhub and Seamless

Grubhub, the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform, today announced the availability of a new payment option for its customers. Grubhub and Seamless diners can now pay for delivery or takeout orders placed via their Android app using Android Pay.

12 July 2016