Latest E-commerce News: Finextra Research

Singapore to let banks move into e-commerce

Singapore is changing its regulations to make it easier for banks to move into non-financial but complementary business areas such as e-commerce.

28 June 2017

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Visa invests in Klarna

Visa is set to buy a stake in Klarna as part of a planned strategic partnership with the Swedish payments firm focussed on pushing online and mobile commerce in Europe.

27 June 2017

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Visa launches $100,000 fintech challenge for Middle East and North Africa

Visa has announced that its Everywhere Initiative, an innovation program designed to encourage the development of the “next big thing” in payments, will expand into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

21 June 2017

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Android Pay lands in Canada and Taiwan

Android Pay has arrived in Canada, with several of the country's biggest banks making the mobile payments service available to Mastercard and Visa credit cardholders as well as Interac debit card users.

31 May 2017

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Square Virtual Terminal lands in the UK

Square has launched its Virtual Terminal service in the UK, enabling sellers to take payments directly on their computers.

31 May 2017

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Emirates NBD opens online shopping mall

If e-commerce conglomerates like Alibaba can move into banking, what's to stop banks moving into e-commerce? That's the thinking behind SkyShopper, a new online mall launched by Emirates NBD which aims to tap into the UAE's booming internet shopping market.

26 May 2017

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UK SMEs missing out on £1.6bn by not accepting 'next gen' payments

Small and medium sized enterprises are missing out on an estimated £1.6 billion by not accepting next generation payments technology such as one-click ordering and 'conversational' transactions, according to research from Barclaycard.

19 May 2017

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Google and PayPal partner for mobile shopping by fingerprint

Android Pay users that have linked their PayPal accounts will soon be able to pay for goods when mobile shopping using the Chrome browser with just just a touch of their fingerprint.

18 May 2017

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DrnkPay app blocks credit cards if you've had too much to drink

A new mobile app is promising to help users avoid drunken late night impulse spending by linking credit and debit cards to a breathalyser and, if too much has been imbibed, barring certain purchases.

17 May 2017

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Kreditech secures EUR110 million investment from PayU

Germany's Kreditech has secured a EUR110 million investment from online payment processor PayU.

10 May 2017

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PayPal launches Business in a Box service for SMBs

PayPal has unveiled a new service, called Business in a Box, which brings together a host of tools designed to help small firms start and run their online operations.

01 May 2017

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Alibaba's Ant Financial merges with helloPay Group

HelloPay Group, the online payments platform used on South East Asian e-commerce platform Lazada, is to merge with Alibaba's Ant Financial and be rebranded into AliPay.

19 April 2017

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PayPal forges mobile payments deal with Google

Consumers in the US will soon be able to use PayPal in Android Pay to make purchases at retailers in-store, in-app and online.

18 April 2017

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Android Pay gets inside bank apps

Google has teamed up with several banks - including BofA - to let customers add cards to Android Pay from within their apps.

12 April 2017

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Minecraft gets own currency

Minecraft, the hugely popular sandbox video game owned by Microsoft, is introducing its own currency for a new marketplace of add-ons built by third-party developers.

10 April 2017

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First Islamic fintech gets UK regulator's approval

A London-based start-up claims it is the first shariah-compliant fintech to be given regulatory approval in the UK.

10 April 2017

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Ingenico gamifies the checkout

Ingenico is bringing scratch cards, slot machines and wheels of fortune to online checkout screens and instore eftpos in an effort to improve conversion rates for merchants.

06 April 2017

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Visa and top UK banks get behind launch of Amazon Business

Visa and four of the UK's leading banks are partnering with Amazon on the launch of a new commercial marketplace for businesses shopping on the popular e-commerce site.

04 April 2017

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Amazon targets unbanked with new cash option

Amazon has launched a service that lets Americans top up their accounts by handing over cash at the physical locations of partner retailers.

03 April 2017

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Ride-hailing app Grab buys Indonesian payments firm Kudo

Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab has struck a deal to buy Indonesian digital payments outfit Kudo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

03 April 2017