Payments

Klarna continues to be a European success story. The Swedish ecommerce payment provider saw its revenue grow by almost 40 percent to hit 2.2 billion Swedish kronor, or 233 million euros. Meanwhile, profits also increased by 39 percent and are now worth 75 million Swedish kronor, which corresponds with 8 million euros.

After the launch of One Touch for Web in the US, PayPal's payment feature will now expand to the United Kingdom as well as Canada. With One Touch, consumers can pay on the Web with a single click after their first login.

Shoper has launched a new solution for online shop owners called Shoper Payments. The Polish ecommerce platform now has its own online payment system, which is available to everybody that has an online store running on Shoper's software.

ING today has introduced digital direct debit mandates for its customers. The Dutch bank is the first to offer this service in the Netherlands. Businesses and government agencies are now able to let their customers pay online by authorizing for payments to be collected from them in the future.

Paymill has launched its partner program, where merchants, agencies and payment experts can offer customers help with the integration of Paymill. The online payments company says partners will also get a personal consultant for themselves and their customers.

Germans hate to bug a pig in a poke. That's why buying on credit, where the consumer only pays after he received the goods, is the most popular payment method in German ecommerce. But online payment methods in Germany should be safer, while not limiting the usability of the end user.

Almost three in ten online transactions in Europe happen via a mobile device. In terms of mobile payments, the smartphone is more popular than the tablet. Especially in the United Kingdom, making online payments using a mobile device is popular.

eBay and PayPal have confirmed their plans to allow merchants to accept bitcoin payments through third-party processor Braintree. In September last year, PayPal already announced it would accept Bitcoin via integration with Braintree, but now it's official. In a long SEC filling it talks about accepting the crypto currency.

Every country has its own way of paying online. Of course, credit cards and PayPal are popular payment methods in many parts around the world. But do you know which online payment method Germans prefer? Or what's more popular than credit cards and direct debit in the Netherlands? This infographic shows you.

Payment gateway Realex Payments has been sold to Global Payments. Realex Payments processes over 29 billion in payments for thousands of online and mobile businesses worldwide and will continue to do this as part of Global Payments, a provider of payment technology services. The transaction is valued at 115 million euros.

Ingenico Payment Services and Hybris are working together. Via its own platform, customers of ecommerce software provider Hybris have access to end-to-end services from Ingenico, such as payment processing, alternative payments, fraud prevention and acquiring services.

It's great to see new shopping technologies arise on the horizon, but this also means consumer expectations have shifted. They now want online retailers to offer them an enhanced and more consistent shopping experience across channels.

The Swedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe is now accepting bitcoin payments. This announcement was done at the same time news came out bitcoin trading platform Safello is looking for funding... via FundedByMe. Safello will also process all bitcoin payments on this crowdfunding platform.

Verifone, an American provider of technology that enables electronic payment transactions, has today announced it will open an office in Brussels, Belgium. From here it wants to offer platforms and solutions for secure online payments to customers in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Online retailers and consumers in the Nordics now can use another service for invoice payments. After the huge success of Klarna, it's time for Avarda, a joint venture from Intrum Justitia and TF Bank. It aims to become the leading provider of payment solutions for online purchases in the Nordic countries.