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The increasing popularity of online payment providers like PayPal and Amazon Checkout, combined with the emergence of mobile commerce, threatens to leave banks lagging in the e-commerce world, according to Cisco.
29 September 2008
UK payments firm DataCash has invested around $7 million in Smart Voucher, a digital money outfit that provides pre-paid coupons that can be redeemed for online products and services.
25 September 2008
After failing in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal, online auction house eBay is setting its sights on US users that pay by cheque and money order.
24 September 2008
Cardholder take-up of the MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa online authentication services has increased by 600% over the past two years, according to stats from UK payments group Apacs.
22 September 2008
A group of five payment network operators from Europe and North America are coming together in a bid to establish common standards and rules for global interoperability of online payment networks.
11 September 2008
Canadian pre-paid card outfit Mint Technology has become the latest firm to tap Facebook, targeting teenage gamers through the social networking site.
03 September 2008
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is looking to halt attempts by online auction house eBay to force sellers in the country to offer PayPal as a payments option on sales listings.
20 August 2008
Although the UK's high streets have been hit hard by the credit crunch, sales via the Internet are continuing to soar and will eventually account for more than half of all retail transactions by 2026, according to UK comparison site uSwitch.
12 August 2008
Person-to-person payments outfit PayPal has appointed Scott Guilfoyle as its new senior vice president of platform services.
06 August 2008
PayPal has launched a reloadable pre-paid Visa card for the UK market that can be used to pay for purchases in traditional retail stores as well as via the Internet.
01 August 2008
Internet retailer Amazon is taking on PayPal and Google in the e-payments market by launching two new services that enable online merchants to use its payments functionality on their e-commerce sites in the US.
30 July 2008
Despite the economic gloom, UK online shopping sales in the first half of 2008 were up 38% - to £26.5 billion - on the same period the previous year.
18 July 2008
The UK's House of Lords is calling on the government to make banks legally responsible for losses incurred by customers through electronic fraud.
08 July 2008
EBay has abandoned plans to force Australian customers to use the PayPal service to make payments on its online auction site.
03 July 2008
UK high street bank Lloyds TSB has come under fire for issuing Visa debit cards to children as young as 11 without seeking parental consent.
30 June 2008
Online retail spending by consumers in Latin America and the Caribbean soared 40% in 2007 to hit US$10.9 billion, according to a study commissioned by Visa.
27 June 2008
Ten years after the service was first launched, PayPal says it now processes some $2000 in payments every second and transactions conducted via its system represent about nine per cent of e-commerce globally.
24 June 2008
Google, Microsoft and PayPal are among a group of technology firms that are joining forces to promote the use of virtual online identity cards - rather than user names and passwords - for conducting transactions via the Web.
The European Union (EU) is set to introduce new rules that will crack down on e-commerce companies that conduct business across member states but force customers to make purchases on country-specific Web sites.
20 June 2008
EBay is postponing plans to force its Australian customers to use the PayPal service following the intervention of the country's competition watchdog, but says it will challenge moves to block its new payments policy.
16 June 2008
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