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Alipay+ aims to provide payment solutions for over 90 million stores globally
As global tourism moves from a year of recovery to a year of growth in 2025, merchants around the world are turning to Alipay+, Ant International's cross-border mobile payment and...
January 31, 2025
Sokin bought the Norwegian fintech Settle
Morgan Stanley-backed payments company Sokin has acquired Norwegian fintech company Settle Group AS (Settle) to enhance its technology capabilities and offers, including its flagship product, Sokin Pay. The purchase comes...
December 10, 2024
PragmaGO enters the Romanian market by acquiring 89% of Romanian Telecredit
PragmaGO, one of Europe's leading non-bank providers of SME finance in CEE, known for its innovative technological solutions developed by an internal software house (PragmaGO.tech), has started its international expansion...
October 18, 2024
PayPal officially launched PayPal Ads
PayPal has officially launched its advertising division, PayPal Ads, offering advertisers access to transactional data from its more than 400 million users. This new advertising offering will initially be available...
October 15, 2024
PayPal redesigns to launch: PayPal Everywhere
PayPal enters a new phase of its business with the launch of PayPal Everywhere, a feature that allows users to make payments in physical stores using a digital debit card....
September 23, 2024
Apple yields to the European Commission and will allow third-party payments
The European Commission (EC) informed this Thursday that it considers as good the concessions offered by Apple to open to its rivals the NFC wireless technology to which it limits...
July 12, 2024
Mangopay chooses Mark Fleming as its new Chief Commercial Officer
Mangopay will have Mark Fleming as its Chief Commercial Officer. Mark will join CEO Romain Mazeries' management team to spearhead the company's international expansion and growth into new customer sectors,...
July 10, 2024
PayPal decides to develop a PayPal Ads platform
PayPal has announced new managerial appointments to develop a PayPal Ads solution. This PayPal Ads will be a new advertising platform to strengthen the company's consumer value proposition.  Specifically, as...
May 31, 2024
PayPal payment service most offered in Italian e-commerce
PayPal Payment service is offered in 93% of Italian online stores, according to research presented by ecommerceDB.  The research took into account the top 100 online stores in 43 different...
January 7, 2022
Blockchain payment methods for e-commerce: Myths and realities for 2022
Blockchain payment methods, from a technical perspective, work perfectly well for any e-commerce. Yet the reality of e-commerce in 2021 was that of a market that barely used blockchain payment...
December 27, 2021
APEXX and Worldline partner to provide 12 Buy Now Pay Later platforms globally
London, 15 December 2021 – APEXX Global, (APEXX), the multi-award-winning global payments platform, has announced a long-term strategic partnership on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) with Worldline, a global leader...
December 16, 2021
Klarna launches one-stop shopping app
Klarna, known for its ‘buy now, pay later’ solution launches a new one-stop shopping app. Shoppers can place orders, see special offers, receive alerts on price reductions, manage payments and...
November 4, 2021
PayPal and Mastercard further expand popular debit card offerings in Europe, including the Netherlands
Amsterdam, September 1, 2021 – Today PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announce that they are continuing the international expansion of the popular PayPal Business Debit Mastercard into the...
September 14, 2021
94% of European checkouts have multiple errors
94% of the most popular e-commerce websites in Europe have five or more errors on their checkout pages. Meanwhile, 21% of European consumers abandon a purchase if the checkout takes...
September 2, 2021
The importance of offering multiple payment methods
Online retailers in the UK lose more than £1.8 billion (€2.13 billion) annually due to the lack of payment methods available for their customers. New research shows the importance of...
August 31, 2021
Klarna launches in Poland
Swedish fintech company Klarna has entered Poland last week. The company launches its ‘buy now, pay later’ service in collaboration with H&M. Klarna has been building its presence in Europe...
August 30, 2021
Top payments apps in China
China is often a frontrunner when it comes to the adoption of digital trends. Mobile payments, for example, have long become omnipresent in the Chinese everyday shopping reality. Whereas in...
August 19, 2021
Four new global brands sign on to use APEXX Global’s BNPL Connect
Addition of Atome, LayBuy, Sezzle and Tamara demonstrates the growth of APEXX’s BNPL Connect  APEXX will have integrated over 20 global BNPL providers by 2022, enabling merchants and PSPs to...
August 13, 2021
Shopify opens up more third-party payment methods
Shopify has revealed its new Payments Platform. It is a way to integrate third-party payment gateways into Shopify Checkout. Thus, merchants can add them as payment options for their customers....
July 5, 2021
Price has the greatest impact on purchase decisions
The State of Personal Commerce details how price impacts how shoppers perceive and engage with brands, across demographics. The findings reveal that while price has the greatest impact on shopper’s...
June 24, 2021
Klarna launches Comparison Shopping Service
Klarna announced the launch of their new Comparison Shopping Service (CSS) in 21 markets. Klarna CSS offers their partner retailers across Europe an increased customer reach and budget savings to...
June 17, 2021
Payvision study shows 44% of retail consumers won’t change their 'COVID-19 effect’ buying habits
Online retail spends in the Netherlands reached USD21 billion in 2020 E-commerce physical goods subscription transactions in Europe will exceed $51 billion in 2021 Mobile payment apps (OEM) usage rose...
May 19, 2021
APEXX Global partners with Esenda to revolutionise education fee payment process
London, 21 April 2021 – APEXX Global, (“APEXX”), the multi-award-winning global  payments platform, has partnered with Esenda, the disruptive payments company focused  on independent schools, to help improve the security...
April 30, 2021
Mobile payments usage in France increased to 38%
The use of mobile payments has further increased in France. The share was 18% in 2018, but has now grown significantly to 38%. Currently, half of French consumers intend to...
April 28, 2021
Payments keep going digital: 2.7 billion people to use mobile wallet apps by 2022
11% of all worldwide online shoppers currently use their m-wallets on a weekly basis In 2021 the total m-commerce will reach USD3.16 trillion and raise to USD3.79 trillion in 2022....
March 22, 2021
Klarna expands Open Banking solution
Klarna announced the expansion of its leading Open Banking solution across eight more European countries. This includes Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Klarna provides the largest...
March 9, 2021
APEXX Global launches Buy Now Pay Later Aggregator
London, February 2021 – APEXX Global, (“APEXX”), the multi-award-winning global payments platform, is launching the first of its kind Buy Now Pay Later (“BNPL”) Aggregator for merchants.  BNPL products have...
March 4, 2021
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Mollie expands to the UK
The Dutch fintech payment services provider, Mollie, has announced it will expand into the UK market. The expansion means Mollie has enhanced its services available to UK companies. These companies...
February 17, 2021
ASOS partners with APEXX to optimise global payments
Partnership will allow the online fashion retailer to increase customer conversion at lower cost and satisfy entire payment needs across global markets. APEXX Global (”APEXX”), the leading global payments platform,...
November 10, 2020
PayPal usage is the highest in the UK
Last year, in the United Kingdom there were around 330,000 daily active PayPal users, according to EcommerceDB. This makes the United Kingdom the country with the highest usage of PayPal...
October 27, 2020
Purchase on account still popular in Germany
For almost a third of all German online shoppers, purchase on account is the most popular payment method. In 2019, a total of 32.8% of all payments were made through purchase...
August 25, 2020
Monese and PayPal introduce cooperation in six new European markets
July 8, 2020 - Monese has expanded its partnership with PayPal to six new European markets. As of today, Monese customers in Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal...
July 9, 2020
Klarna launches in Spain
Klarna is a major payments company from Sweden. Nowadays, it is one of the biggest fintech companies in Europe. Their payment solution offers a variety of payments methods. The most...
July 1, 2020
More than half of European checkouts have multiple errors
The checkout page is the most important page on every e-commerce website. The checkout page is the page where visitors turn into buyers. Therefore, it is necessary to offer a...
June 15, 2020
Buy and sell contactless with new PayPal QR-code
New app feature enables secure physical payments in social distancing society. Amsterdam, May 19, 2020 - PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) introduces QR-codes for buyers and sellers. With the new...
May 27, 2020
Changes in Payvision’s leadership
Amsterdam, Netherlands – May 7, 2020 - Payvision, a global fintech and omnichannel payments provider, announced today that it has appointed Andre Valkenburg as its new CEO. Andre brings more...
May 12, 2020
Facebook and three Indonesian firms in talks for mobile payment approval
American social media giant Facebook prepares to apply for regulatory approval in Indonesia to launch mobile payments. It does this in partnership with three local digital fintech companies, reports Reuters....
April 21, 2020
Online payment fraud: $25 billion lost by 2024
Online retailers will lose more than $25 billion over payment fraud by 2024, a Juniper Research study found. This is an increase of 52% in four years. At this moment,...
April 1, 2020
Turnover Klarna grows 31%
International payment service provider Klarna reached a turnover of €677 million, up 31% compared to 2018. More than 200.000 online and offline shops use the services of Klarna. Despite the...
March 2, 2020
Most preferred payment method in Germany: PayPal
When shopping online, the German consumer prefers to pay with PayPal. More than half of the respondents (57%) in a survey said this payment method is their favourite when buying...
February 24, 2020
Thailand: expanding the cross-border payment system via QR codes
In a bid to bridge the gat between neighbouring countries, Thailand decided to leverage QR code technology to empower cross-border payment capabilities. QR - Quick Response - code technology is...
February 17, 2020
Europeans prefer cards as payment method
A study by Payments Europe, an association of global and European card-based payment solutions providers, concludes that cards are the preferred payment method in Europe. It is both preferred by merchants...
December 11, 2019
Price-comparison sites call for new Google Shopping probe
Last week, price-comparison websites hit out at Google's shopping service. Google Shopping has been attacked by 41 price-comparison companies in Europe, which have called on the European Commission to reopen...
December 9, 2019
Invisible payments to take the stage as the new commerce norm
Payvision released a new ebook exploring the future of commerce payments. The research looks into how the next generation of payments is reinventing the shopping experience, giving merchants clear insight...
November 13, 2019
Payvision offers Apple Pay to merchants in the Netherlands
Apple Pay is trending. It is a nice and simple way for consumers to get their hands on the goods and services they want in just a blink of an...
July 25, 2019
Google Pay adds PayPal integration for online merchants
Online merchants that accept Google Pay in 24 countries are now able to accept payments from PayPal through the mobile wallet, reports TechCrunch.   Last year, users who added PayPal as...
July 3, 2019
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