Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

GoDaddy partners with Stripe for small business sales

GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, announced a partnership with Stripe, a leading online payments provider.

03 October 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Worldline to use MyBank Mandates for Sepa compliance

Worldline [Euronext:WLN], European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, introduces electronic mandate services for SEPA Direct Debits (SDD) supporting MyBank, an Online Banking ePayment (OBeP) solution for e/m/commerce.

29 September 2014

Company update/E-commerce

First Data partners eWay to expand Australian business into Asia

First Data, the global leader in payments technology and services solutions, and eWAY, a global leader in eCommerce, today announced a strategic alliance that will enable more Australian businesses to expand into Asia’s rapidly growing eCommerce markets.

29 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Visa creates 2000 full-time tech jobs

Visa is ramping up its tech investment, creating 2000 full-time technologist positions and opening a development centre in India.

24 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Amazon shuts down P2P payments service

Amazon is killing off WebPay, admitting that the person-to-person money transfer service is not good enough to keep persevering with.

16 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Visa begins tokenisation roll out

Visa has taken advantage of the hoopla surrounding Apple's application of digital account tokens to replace card numbers for online and mobile purchasing by initiating the roll out of its Token Service to US clients.

10 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Barclaycard buys The Logic Group

Barclaycard is boosting its capabilities in the lucrative rewards market through the acquisition of payments and loyalty specialist The Logic Group. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

08 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Australia's eftpos takes on PayPal with online payments system

Australian point-of-sale payments provider eftpos is moving online, testing a new system for web-purchases at supermarket chain Coles.

02 September 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Skrill Group hire's Skype's Neil Ward as chief product and marketing officer

Skrill Group today announces the appointment of Neil Ward as Group Chief Product and Marketing Officer (CPMO).

01 September 2014

News/E-commerce

Amazon hires Visa's Talwar to lead lending business

Amazon has hired Visa's North America credit card head Nick Talwar to run its business providing capital to sellers on its marketplace.

29 August 2014

Company update/E-commerce

PayPal and Braintree launch v.zero SDK to six new countries

Innovation happens everywhere. But when it’s supported by the right tools, it can happen much faster and more seamlessly. The right platform can help unlock and support innovation that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.

27 August 2014

News/E-commerce

EBay ponders PayPal spin-off - report

Shares in eBay rose nearly five per cent yesterday afternoon off the back of a media report that the online auction house could spin off its PayPal unit as early as next year.

22 August 2014

News/E-commerce

PayPal taps Venmo for one-touch in-app payments

PayPal has taken advantage of technology from its Braintree unit to build a system which lets mobile shoppers make in-app purchases with a single touch.

20 August 2014

Company update/E-commerce

Ryanair adds PayPal option

Ryanair, Europe’s favourite low fares airline, today (18 Aug) launched a new payment partnership with PayPal, providing customers, business travellers, travel agents and corporate travel departments with even more ways to book and pay for the lowest fares on the Ryanair.com website.

18 August 2014

News/E-commerce

Braintree could soon accept bitcoin

EBay is preparing to integrate bitcoin into its Braintree payments service, according to the Wall Street Journal, giving the crypto-currency a firm nudge into the mainstream.

15 August 2014

News/E-commerce

BitPay brings in Visa, PayPal and Jumio talent

BitPay has begun putting the proceeds of its recent $30 million funding round to use, embarking on a hiring spree that sees talent from Visa, PayPal and Jumio join the digital currency startup.

14 August 2014

News/E-commerce

Alibaba strengthens Alipay ties ahead of IPO

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sold its SME loan business to the parent of Alipay in a move designed to increase the profits made on any future sale of the payments unit.

13 August 2014

News/E-commerce

Rocket Internet scores EUR333m investment for emerging markets payments push

German Internet-focused VC and incubator Rocket Internet has sold a 10% stake to Philippines-based telco PLDT for EUR333 million in a deal that will also see the two firms team on building online and mobile payments services in emerging markets.

07 August 2014

News/E-commerce

Visa takes on PayPal with Checkout button for Web and mobile payments

In its latest attempt to crack online and mobile payments, Visa has unveiled a system which lets virtual shoppers complete purchases with a couple of clicks.

17 July 2014

News/E-commerce

Weve CEO Sear joins Skrill

Weve CEO David Sear is moving to online payments outfit Skrill where he will take on the newly created position of chief commercial officer.

09 July 2014