Ecommerce, online & mobile payments

The value of fintech-related mergers and acquisitions hit $10 billion in the last three months, with deals involving payments firms dominating, data from investment bank Berkery Noyes shows.

New payment security guidelines to apply to online retail from August 2015 Out-Law.com The European Banking Authority (EBA) said its proposed new internet payment security guidelines (33-page / 321KB PDF) "are expected to contribute to fighting...

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British consumers are taking the lead across Europe and spending substantially more online than those in France and Germany as the online shopping phenomenon continues to gather speed. According to the latest industry research, twice as many Brits (27%) have shopped online during the last three months than the French (14%) and nearly three times more than the Germans (10%).

UK bank-backed mobile payment service Paym has confirmed that 20 new institutions have signed up to use the service, with first direct the first into ...

The pound in our pocket is increasingly being displaced by the plastic in our wallet says the UK Cards Association, with new figures showing that the number of debit and credit card transactions made in a single month passed one billion for the first time in August.

(The Paypers) 59% of UK consumers prefer to make purchases online to the detriment of physical stores, evigo.com reports.

With the huge data breaches at Target and Home Depot fresh in the memory, MasterCard has launched a tool designed to protect against cyber attacks on banks and processors.

The rapid development witnessed by UK online shopping is expected to generate over 1.35 billion deliveries by 2018 which leads to a 29% market increase.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) have joined forces to boost the security of retail payments.

Apple Pay will launch in the US on Monday, enabling Americans to use their iPhones to make payments at the likes of Target, Uber, Groupon, and Starbucks.

Online sales grew at their slowest rate in September for more than a year as an Indian summer dissuaded shoppers from stocking up their winter wardrobes, BRC figures showed today.

The UK is an ecommerce powerhouse in terms of spend per head. However, more than simply heading online for their shopping needs, consumers often marry the digital and physical. Buying online and collecting in-store, in particular, is already a big deal, and according to research, it's only going to get bigger.

Forget mobile payments, many Canadians are ready to shop through their internet-enabled fridges and chips implanted in their fingers.

Non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly 10% percent to reach 366 billion transactions in 2013, fueled by strong growth in developing markets and mobile payments, according to the 10th annual World Payments Report from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).