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Amazon stock plummets amid cloud slowdown

Amazon reported that its cloud growth has slowed, as business customers reduce spending amid market uncertainty.

28 April 2023

Panera Bread trials Amazon palm reading tech

Fast food giant Panera Bread is piloting palm reading technology from Amazon that lets customers pay and access the chain's loyalty programme.

22 March 2023

News/regulation

RBI fines Amazon Pay over KYC non-compliance

India's central bank has fined Amazon Pay around $375,000 for non-compliance with pre-paid payment instruments and KYC rules.

03 March 2023

Company announcement/retail

Better Mortgages rolls out 'Equity Unlocker' for Amazon employees

This purchase season, Amazon employees have a new reason to celebrate.

01 March 2023

News/payments

Stripe scores major Amazon deal

Stripe has become a strategic payments partner for Amazon in the US, Europe, and Canada, processing a "significant" portion of the tech giant's total payments volume across its businesses, including Prime, Audible, Kindle, Amazon Pay, Buy With Prime, and more.

23 January 2023

Company announcement/security

Amazon joins up with the Take Five to Stop Fraud campaign

To mark International Fraud Awareness Week (13-19 November 2022), UK Finance’s Take Five to Stop Fraud campaign and Amazon today launch the ‘Can you spot fraud?’ quiz, to help businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises, stay safe from fraud.

14 November 2022

News/retail

Amazon launches merchant cash advancement programme

Amazon has joined forces with Parafin to launch a merchant cash advance service that ties repayment to future sales.

01 November 2022

News/payments

Amazon adds Venmo as payments option

Ahead of Black Friday, Amazon is adding PayPal's Venmo as a payment option for US shoppers.

26 October 2022

News/retail

Amazon launches UK home insurance comparison site

Amazon has introduced an online home insurance comparison service in the UK, signing up three of the country's largest providers as participants.

19 October 2022

Company announcement/payments

Ebury enrols in Amazon's Payment Service Provider Programme

Ebury, a global fintech, is delighted to announce that it has become a member of Amazon’s Payment Service Provider Program meaning that sellers using Amazon sites can continue to collect payments in different regions and currencies through Ebury’s platform.

04 October 2022

News/payments

Amazon and Affirm bring BNPL payments to Canada

Amazon and Affirm are extending their buy now, pay later partnership to Canada, enabling shoppers to pay for their purchases in instalments.

26 September 2022

News/cloud

UK communications watchdog launches cloud competition probe

Ofcom has announced its probe into cloud service providers Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The investigation will look into these providers, which generate around 81% of revenues in UK public cloud, to ensure the market is working properly and not limiting innovation or growth.

23 September 2022

News/crypto

ECB taps CaixaBank and Amazon for digital euro prototypes

The European Central Bank has picked five partners - including CaixaBank and Amazon - to help it develop a digital euro prototype.

16 September 2022

Finextra TV/cloud

Mainframe Modernisation: The Cloud Shift

Bjoern Langmack, Global App Modernization & Migration leader, Deloitte and Steve Steuart, Global Head of Mainframe Migration and Modernization, AWS, discuss the steps needed before deciding to modernize mainframes on the cloud, why now is the right time to modernize, how is the industry responding, and some of the key challenges to migrating and modernizing mainframe workloads.

11 July 2022

News/payments

Amazon Egypt rolls out BNPL options

Amazon has collaborated with Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech platform, vaIU, to launch affordable payment options for Amazon Egypt.

04 July 2022

Finextra TV/cloud

Mainframe modernisation: Overcoming hurdles to achieve agility

For mainframe modernisation to be successful, financial institutions must remedy industry challenges that have permeated the space for several years. Steve Steuart - Global Head of Mainframe Migration and Modernization, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Keval Mehta - FS Cloud Lead, Accenture, discuss how financial institutions can best develop their mainframe modernisation strategies and what the digital endgame looks like.

29 June 2022

Company announcement/payments

Amazon extends credit card deal with Chase

Chase today announced a multi-year extension of the co-branded Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature credit card.

01 April 2022

Company announcement/payments

Computop integrates new Amazon Pay interface for express checkout

Online merchants who process their payments via Computop Paygate can now offer their customers a faster checkout via Amazon Pay.

24 February 2022

News/payments

Amazon reaches global deal with Visa over card fees

Amazon has dropped its threat to stop accepting Visa cards across its global operations after reaching an agreement with the card scheme.

17 February 2022

News/regulation

Major tech antitrust bill advanced by US Senate vote

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 this week to advance a major tech competition bill, says CNBC.

21 January 2022