Category: E-payment & Data Security

April 15, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, retailers have pivoted to give consumers more choices via their mobile apps. Incognia examined multiple retailers, including Best Buy, Costco, Walmart and Target, for traits ranging from the number of clicks and fields required to […]

April 6, 2021

Consumers across the globe spent $900 billion more at online retailers in 2020 compared with the prior two-year trend, according to a report released Tuesday by the Mastercard Economics Institute. Shoppers are heading back to restaurants and returning to stores […]

April 5, 2021

It has been a year of momentous change for the payments industry. Previously, emerging trends have seen a massive acceleration as a result of the pandemic. Years of transformation transpired in just a few months with rapid shifts in both […]

April 1, 2021

Humans have been dynamically evolving the concept of loans and credit in commerce for hundreds of years — culminating in the explosion of consumer credit cards in the 20th century. However, the practice of using credit is gaining traction even […]

March 31, 2021

PayPal has announced it is giving customers the chance to ‘checkout with crypto’ at its 29 million merchants for everyday purchases. The service, which is currently only available to consumers in the US, will enable the payment of goods with […]

March 9, 2021

PayPal has announced plans to acquire cryptocurrency security firm Curv in a move which suggests the payment giant could soon allow customers to pay using digital currency. According to Decrypt, which first reported the deal, PayPal has been in talks […]

March 1, 2021

The internet facilitates every aspect of our lives, which has only become more obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we spend much of our time online, confidence in internet security remains quite low. Research by PwC suggests that 69% of […]

February 15, 2021

Ebay sellers will soon be forced to link their bank accounts to their profiles in order to continue selling as it pushes ahead with its separation from PayPal. In February last year Ebay announced that it was ending its deeply […]

February 1, 2021

Nearly 200 online retailers offering payment via “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) schemes have been found to be in breach of UK consumer law. Which? has found 170 retailers, promoted by the UK’s largest BNPL companies, with potentially illegal returns […]

January 21, 2021

At a CES 2021 session featuring privacy experts from Amazon.com, Google and Twitter, panelists agreed that, while data transparency is critical, a “patchwork” of privacy rules across areas may increasingly undermine the benefits of the internet. “We learned [in 2020] […]