Category: E-payment & Data Security

April 19, 2022

As a technology vendor, I have rare insight into the day-to-day of online retailer consumer traffic. So I regularly help customers identify and fight a hidden drag on their growth: ad fraud. I spend hours speaking with customers about their […]

April 14, 2022

Privacy has always been a hot topic, but recently temperatures have been rising. From the Facebook Files to Netflix’s documentary The Social Dilemma, we now understand more than ever how social networks and search engines utilize our data not only […]

April 6, 2022

I log hours — daily — speaking with customers about their e-commerce businesses and their dizzying array of challenges. These range from product design to logistics — among their largest costs — to digital marketing. As a vendor with a […]

March 23, 2022

President Joe Biden warned private businesses of potential cyberattacks from Russia in response to economic sanctions the U.S. has imposed, asking businesses to invest in the “technological capacity to deal with cyberattacks.” In remarks before Business Roundtable’s CEO quarterly meeting, […]

March 22, 2022

Reach, a combined payments, tax and fraud platform designed to improve handling of cross-border commerce transactions, has received $30 million in its latest funding round. The solution provider will use the funding to scale up its development teams with a […]

March 9, 2022

Expect buy now, pay later to be a juggernaut in payments for years to come. That’s according to the 156-page 2022 Global Payments Report released March 2 by the Worldpay unit of Fidelity National Information Services, also known as FIS. […]

February 23, 2022

No matter how fast the modern payment ecosystem is developing, the pursuit of the best customer experience isn’t going anywhere. To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying […]

February 17, 2022

Cybercriminals have targeted the retail sector over the past 12 months, with a 264% surge in ransomware attacks on ecommerce and online retail businesses. The figures from SonicWall’s biannual report revealed that cyber attacks and IT security threats have surged […]

January 6, 2022

Which? has called for stricter safeguards surrounding buy now, pay later (BNPL) and the potential risks. The consumer group wants to stop shoppers from choosing BNPL payment solutions without knowing the risks that come with it. A study conducted by […]

January 6, 2022

Over the past year and a half, traditional shopping has completely transformed. The pandemic shook up the retail industry as shoppers avoided brick-and-mortar stores and dedicated their attention online, putting a heightened emphasis on e-commerce. In fact, e-commerce sales grew […]

January 5, 2022

China’s central bank has launched a pilot version of its digital wallet which will house the country’s digital yuan currency in a bid to increase the usage to more people. Currently the app is available on China’s Android and Apple […]

January 3, 2022

As early as February 2021, industry analysts predicted the year’s holiday ecommerce sales would climb to $206.88 billion, accounting for a record 18.9% of all holiday retail revenue and representing an 11.3% increase over last year’s ecommerce earnings. These numbers […]

December 7, 2021

By testing its split payments feature in Facebook Messenger, Meta further enmeshes its app in consumers’ social and financial lives. Two years ago, the company integrated Facebook Pay across Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. Earlier this year, the company began testing […]

December 1, 2021

Most of the infosec community gave thanks after the long holiday weekend as the vast majority of e-commerce, retail and critical infrastructure providers returned to work Monday without a major ransomware attack or other major data breaches. Much of the […]

November 5, 2021

As global e-commerce continues growing at its feverish pace, retailers are understandably excited and embracing innovative solutions to ride the wave. But alongside that massive growth lurks the always villainous fraudster. There’s good news though – technology is making it […]

October 1, 2021

Barclaycard is launching a new integrated Foreign Exchange solution that will enable Barclaycard corporate customers to accept payments in their local currencies. The new solution uses a pre-determined fixed FX rate which reduces the impact of volatility to clients With […]

September 20, 2021

Payment processing has been viewed as a commodity like copper or crude oil. And like a commodity, choosing which payment processor has been a decision based on “lowest cost.” While that logic may have made sense when the credit card […]

September 14, 2021

Digital wallet usage has continued to soar skyrocket lockdown restrictions were lifted across the UK, as the nation reaches a “tipping point” in how it chooses to pay for goods. Nearly two thirds (62 per cent) of Brits said they […]

September 10, 2021

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? The truth is, it’s not a new idea, but what is different is the accelerated drive toward digital transformation and the advantages of cloud computing. Payment orchestration is no longer optional. […]

September 9, 2021

Digital wallets are estimated to account for $11 billion of online spend by 2026, according to figures from emerchantpay. The study, which has been published to examine consumer behaviour post pandemic shows that there will be stark differences in attitudes […]