“Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the mobile payment service owned by PayPal. It’s the latest deal inked by Amazon to give customers another way to pay for products on its marketplace. Earlier this year it partnered with Affirm to let customers buy products in monthly payments. PayPal announced the deal as part of its third quarter earnings. Venmo processed $60 billion in total payment volume for the quarter, up 36%.”

“Klarna , a leading global retail bank, payments and shopping service, today announced an expansion of its partnership with ContextLogic Inc. (d/b/a Wish ) (NASDAQ: WISH ), one of the world’s largest mobile e-commerce platforms. The partnership, which will initially allow flexible payment options to consumers in the US, is part of a broader drive by Wish to expand ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ (BNPL) offerings to its users across its platform.”

“Spotify this morning announced a new partnership with e-commerce platform provider Shopify that will allow artists on its service to connect their Spotify profiles with their Shopify stores, allowing them to market their merchandise directly to fans through the Spotify app. After connecting their Spotify for Artists accounts with their Shopify online store, artists will be able to sync their product catalog to Spotify to showcase whichever products they choose on their profile in the streaming music app.”

“Spreedly, the provider of the leading Payment Orchestration platform, today announced that as part of its partnership with Stripe, Spreedly customers are now able to seamlessly onboard to Stripe. Stripe Connect, will enable the adoption of advanced fraud fighting features and other value-added services. This opportunity for joint customers is available as part of the previously announced Partnership Program for Payment Service Providers .”

“Digital River , an experienced global ecommerce enabler for established and fast-growing brands, today announced it has launched its own integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud on Salesforce AppExchange, empowering users to integrate Digital River’s comprehensive checkout solution with Salesforce. The new app allows B2B merchants to combine Salesforce’s powerful commerce capabilities with Digital River’s merchant of record model and global payments, fraud, tax and compliance services – all through one comprehensive solution”

“Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the upcoming availability of Payment Services for Adobe Commerce , the industry’s leading end-to-end commerce application for B2B, D2C and hybrid use cases. By integrating Payment Services to their digital storefronts, Adobe merchants of all sizes will soon have access to a robust, secure, and integrated payment solution that can easily be managed from their Adobe Commerce Admin, instead of having to do the work of integrating with third-party payment providers.”

“JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and Checkout.com, the global payments processing platform, today announces the next evolution of their partnership with the rollout of J/Secure(TM) 2.0 which is compliant with EMV(R) 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) to Checkout.com’s merchants in the UK.As Europe’s leading payment service provider for enterprises, Checkout.com is the first licensee partner in the UK to go live with J/Secure(TM) 2.0, JCB’s authentication programme for card-not-present transactions.”

“Spreedly, the provider of the leading Payments Orchestration platform, today announced that the volume of transactions leveraging a fraud management service via its Payments Orchestration platform has more than tripled over the last year. Merchants and platforms use Payments Orchestration to improve their digital customer experience and maximize transaction ROI. Spreedly enables customers to connect to the ideal mix of services to support their payment strategy. Spreedly’s marketplace of services includes an array of fraud-fighting applications. With a single integration to Spreedly’s Payments Orchestration platform customers can quickly and easily test and leverage fraud management tools with a “build once” approach.”

“TikTok is moving into e-commerce. The company announced this morning an expanded partnership with e-commerce platform Shopify, as well as a pilot test of TikTok Shopping among select Shopify merchants across the U.S., U.K., and Canada in the weeks to come. The social video platform first announced its plans to partner with Shopify last October, with the introduction of new tools that allowed Shopify merchants to create, run and optimize their TikTok marketing campaigns directly from the Shopify dashboard, as well as new integrations within the TikTok For Business Ads Manager.”

“Pay Links enable small businesses to create a link to a secure checkout page, share it with their customers across email, social media, text or generate a designated QR code and get paid within minutes. Businesses can customize their Pay Links with product images and a logo, so customers have a seamless brand experience. Virtual Terminal turns any device with a web browser into a payment terminal, enabling small business owners to take payments over the phone. As part of GoDaddy Payments, both Pay Links and Virtual Terminal accept all major credit and debit cards including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover for a low transaction fee with no long-term contracts, no monthly minimums or any hidden fees.”

“Santander (SAN.MC) , the euro zone’s second-largest bank by market value, said on Monday its payment fintech unit, PagoNxt, would start to serve customers in 30 countries in Europe under the Getnet brand. The initiative is part of a wider strategy aimed at boosting the bank’s revenues at a moment when European lenders are struggling with pressure from low interest rates while trying to fend off competition from technology firms.”

“Fiserv Inc. , a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced the integration of a cutting-edge fraud prevention solution into its e-commerce payment gateway to reduce the fraud-related chargeback risk for Mexico’s online commerce. The Vesta fraud prevention platform helps secure online payment transactions, reduces the decline rate, and includes a “Zero Chargeback Guarantee.”

“Starting this August, businesses in the US who use participating platforms will have the ability to enable Facebook Pay as a payment option directly on their websites, giving their customers the ability to speed through checkout without having to re-enter their payment information. We’re starting the rollout with Shopify merchants and expect to expand availability with more platforms and payment service providers over time.”

“Without leaving their GoDaddy Online Store, customers are now able to automatically create a Google Merchant Center account, sync their catalog to create free product listings on Google, and promote their products on Google. In addition to free listings, GoDaddy customers now have integrated capabilities to launch Smart Shopping campaigns to promote products across more surfaces on Google, including Google Search, Google Images, Google maps, YouTube and Gmail.”

“BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, today announced a new integration with Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) that allows BigCommerce U.S. merchants to more easily fulfill their ecommerce orders using Amazon’s order fulfillment services whether they sell on Amazon or not.”

“Wish has been granted a Payments Services License by the Dutch Central Bank, paving the way for the e-commerce giant to process all EU payments on its platform. The license will enable Wish to process transactions and increase control over the payments value chain in a compliant manner, while also reducing reliance on third parties.Wish will initially use the license to pay its EU merchants directly but will explore other payment services in the future.”

“Trust Swiftly launches the first-ever identity verification platform featuring 15 different methods of authentication that safely approves real e-commerce customers while stopping fraudsters fast. By combining multiple verifications, Trust Swiftly provides legitimate customers the most efficient and enjoyable experience possible while fraudulent actors are quickly identified. The platform is customizable and allows users the capability to feature as many of the verification methods as they see fit.”

“BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), a leading global Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, today announced it has extended its European presence from the U.K., into the Netherlands, France and Italy. With BigCommerce, merchants will have access to a flexible, enterprise-grade ecommerce platform built to sell on a local and global scale. This latest growth phase comes almost a year since the company’s IPO in August 2020 and three years since the company first put down roots in EMEA with an office in London in 2018.”

“Today at Shopify Unite 2021, we announced our largest set of platform investments to date. With a lens into the future where every merchant can tell their unique story, we are reinventing the internet’s commerce infrastructure like never before and calling on developers to help us build that future together.  We’re not just betting on a world full of merchants, but on a world full of developers and technical entrepreneurs. Our infrastructure updates—from Storefronts and Checkout to the Theme Store and our Partner Ecosystem—give developers and merchants even more power to create, customize, scale, and monetize on Shopify.”

“Nuvei Corporation (“Nuvei” or the “Company”) (TSX: NVEI and NVEI.U), the global payment technology partner of thriving brands, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary has signed an acquiring agreement with Discover® Global Network, the payment brand of Discover. Nuvei has secured the partnership at a critical time as the shift to eCommerce continues to surge, satisfying the demand for greater connections between online merchants and Discover Global Network. The enhanced card acceptance offering allows businesses to provide an improved online shopping experience that can help increase sales and attract more clients from across the globe.”

“SpotOn , a leader in fully-integrated restaurant management systems, today announced a new integration with Order with Google to bring an even easier online ordering option to its restaurant clients. This integration enables customers to seamlessly order from SpotOn’s restaurant clients directly through Google Search and Maps, using SpotOn Order.”