E-Commerce

Click to Pay is based on EMVCo’s Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) industry standard, acting as a form of guest checkout which alleviates the need for cardholders to manually enter personal and account information to shop at unfamiliar merchants.

In too many places, identity verification and other vetting is still done manually, says Signicat's John Erik Setsaas.

Every toy, gadget and good you see on YouTube could soon be for sale online -- not on Amazon, but right on YouTube itself.

The service signals the start of a broader shift in retailers directly challenging Amazon and threatening the platform as a shopper's default choice, says Bolt's Greg Greiner.

Amazon.com Inc. is about to test whether consumers who have taken to online shopping in huge numbers during the pandemic will spend even more for deals during the company’s Prime Day sales event.

If the processor does not understand the particular needs of high-risk businesses, merchants working with them could face sudden financial disaster if accounts are terminated without warning, says T1 Payments’ Donald Kasdon.

Embedded finance isn’t an intentional attempt to overthrow banking; most companies are just trying to meet customers where they’re at when it comes to payments, says Kunai's Sandeep Sood.

Alternative payment methods such as bank transfers, e-wallets, cash-based payments and other payment types are currently the vast majority of e-commerce transactions globally, says PPRO's James Booth.

Blockchain's cross-border power eliminates the intermediary and solves the problem of rendering the traditional processing system redundant, and processes the payment on a chain with no middleman intervention, says ForumPay's Joshua Tate.

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. is offering to sell a roughly $20 billion stake in its retail business to Amazon.com Inc., according to a person with knowledge of the matter.