32% of UK online sales made via mobile devices One in three of all sales that are made online in the United Kingdom take place on either a smartphone or a tablet. Visits to online stores via these mobile devices currently account for almost half of traffic. Especially in the... read more →

Pay after delivery: the present situation in the Netherlands The Dutch in general have a good reputation when it comes to paying their bills. Therefore paying by invoice and thus after delivery has been very common. Nonetheless the larger Dutch banks founded iDeal, an online payment method that forces consumers... read more →

Europe loses its share in the Russian ecommerce market The European influence on the Russian ecommerce market is declining rapidly. And it’s losing its share to Chinese companies, as their growth in Russia had been fueled thanks to the devaluation of the ruble. The Russian currency has fallen nearly 40%... read more →

Ecommerce in Spain grew to €3.6 billion in Q1 2014 The total turnover of the ecommerce industry in Spain has reached 3.6 billion euros in the first quarter of 2014. When we compare this with the ecommerce turnover in the same period last year, a growth of 27% is noticeable.... read more →

The future of global payments Robust growth has returned to the global payments industry. After a fallow period following the financial crisis of 2008, we forecast payments revenue will grow by 8 percent each year through 2018, at which point annual revenue will reach $2.3 trillion and account for 43... read more →

The online shopping habits of Polish internet users As is common nowadays in almost all developed countries, Polish internet users also don’t limit themselves to a PC when making a purchase online. There is even one in every 25 users who has at least once done some online shopping using... read more →

45% growth in Polish cross-border ecommerce in 2014 There was a growth of 45% in the cross-border ecommerce industry in Poland this year. With this growth rate, it grew harder than the cross-border ecommerce industry in European countries like Romania, Greece and Hungary. Polish consumers would shop more abroad if... read more →

Belgian government wants to boost ecommerce Ecommerce offers many opportunities on the European market and it’s important that Belgium manages to keep a “piece of that pie” for itselves. That’s one of the things Minister Alexander de Croo told the audience during the first edition of E-commerce Xpo. The government... read more →

MasterCard plans 2015 debit card launch in Canada MasterCard plans to launch a debit-card service in Canada next year to take advantage of the growth in digital payments.This renewed effort – the company scrapped an initial plan to enter Canada in 2010 – reflects MasterCard’s attempt to grow its business... read more →

Polish ecommerce industry is worth €6.94bn in 2014 It’s estimated that the value of the Polish ecommerce market will be worth 6.94 billion euros (29 billion zloty) in 2014. That’s 1.2 billion euros more than the Polish ecommerce industry value in 2013. Nowadays, more than 60 percent of Polish Internet... read more →