by Sean Robinson | Jan 23, 2018 | Business, E-Commerce, News
Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) has announced the acquisition of SID Secure EFT South Africa, the original and leading Secure electronic funds transfer (EFT) solution in the region. The deal will complement DPO’s comprehensive suite of payment solutions which includes...
by Sean Robinson | May 8, 2017 | Business, E-Commerce, News
Ten years is a very long time in the world of technology. Ten years ago, Microsoft launched their commercial version of Vista, Apple announced iTunes had just surpassed its 1 billionth downloads and Google had just overtaken Microsoft as the most valuable global...
by Sean Robinson | Apr 4, 2017 | Business, E-Commerce, News
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, SiD’s CEO David Liu looks back over the last decade and gives insight into the changes in the online payment security sector. What were you doing ten years ago? Well, if you are South African, chances are you were listening to...
by Sean Robinson | Feb 3, 2017 | E-Commerce
Kyle Rozendo, CTO at SiD Secure EFT puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global shopping cart abandonment on e-commerce websites is reported at anything between 60 and 70 percent. Yet simple tweaks to the purchasing...
by Sean Robinson | Dec 9, 2016 | Business, E-Commerce
This year’s sudden spike in online shopping on Black Friday showed the true potential of e-commerce in South Africa. But it also showed that local merchants may not be prepared for sudden spikes in e-commerce trade which will continue into the festive season – and the...
by Sean Robinson | Nov 30, 2016 | Business, E-Commerce
Increasing sophistication in card fraud is reason for concern. Not only for banks, but most especially for online merchants, who are at risk of losing their ability to trade should they be implicated in repeat fraud attempts and excessive customer disputes. While...
