Global Payments to Offer Bitcoin Payment Acceptance
This relationship with BitPay allows Global Payments to incorporate the cryptocurrency into its product suite and to offer bitcoin payment acceptance to its worldwide merchants.
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BlueSnap Partners With iGlobal Stores
With a simple integrated checkout page, merchants will be able to automate international tax and shipping calculations, reduce logistics costs and meet legal obligations while providing a localized checkout experience in more than 180 countries.
Alipay Sees Strong Growth in Cross-border Shopping
Alipay, China’s largest e-payments provider, has been cutting deals to get non-Chinese e-tailers to adopt it as a payment option. Alipay, which now settles transactions in 14 currencies and 34 countries, created this infographic containing some interesting stats surrounding the company’s growing cross-border business.
Amazon Payments Unveils a Mobile POS Solution
Amazon Local Register will offer brick-and-mortar world a lower swipe fee than banks. And it will also give Amazon a glimpse at how omnichannel consumers shop.
Data Breaches Signal Increased Need for EMV Adoption in the U.S.
While the U.S. is at a disadvantage for not having migrated to the EMV standard yet, we also have the advantage of being able to look at the example set by other countries, and analyze and learn from how they managed to upgrade.
eBay: 79% of Global Shoppers Prefer PayPal
PayPal’s global business generated $986 million in revenue in the second quarter, and international revenue grew at a rate of 19% year over year. Here’s a look at what’s sparked the 11th consecutive quarter of global growth for PayPal.
PacNet Services to Highlight International Payment Processing at Growing Global 2014
PacNet Services, an international payment processing company and leading supplier of payment services for global ecommerce, today confirmed their attendance at Growing Global 2014, running July 15 and 16 in Long Beach, CA.
Rockport Sees Growth in Mobile Sales with Google Wallet
Since instituting Google Wallet Instant Buy in 2012, Rockport has seen 90% of consumers who begin a mobile purchase using the application to complete it, compared to just 3% for mobile purchases overall.
Bongo International Now Accepts Bitcoin
Global ecommerce and international logistics solutions provider Bongo International announces that they are the first in their field to accept Bitcoin, the decentralized P2P currency.
International Consumers Represent Two-Thirds of Global Ecommerce Sales
Payscout details the growing global ecommerce industry, which the company says American small and medium-sized businesses are failing to capitalize on due to the difficulties that lie in foreign currency processing.