We’ve got a two-part Friday fintech news special series today. In fact, you might call our posts –  WorldPay, WePay, you pay and we all pay by mobile.

Our Fintech Friday, Part One looks at e-commerce news including JPMorgan’s purchase of WePay and a report from WorldPay that says the UK will be the third biggest e-commerce market in the world by 2021. You’ll also get an update on the lagging fintech investment in Japan and IBM Watson and robots helping investment firm EquBot LLC trade ETFs more effectively.

Fintech Friday, Part Two is highlighting mobile payments news from around the world. There’s a report on how Apple Pay and bitcoin may someday soon battle for payments supremacy. You’ll also want to catch the news about Tel Aviv headquartered PayKey’s launch of a new mobile keyboard for payments.

Enjoy our Fintech Friday double-header and make sure to catch some baseball on the weekend.

Friday Fintech News: Global e-commerce gets growing with fintech

A new WorldPay report says UK e-commerce will be worth more than $268 billion by 2021, making it the third largest e-commerce market in the world. The decline of payments cards is not surprising given the high penetration of mobile payments technology and fintech companies in the UK. JPMorgan acquires tinted payments network WePay. Robots are helping EquBot LLC trade ETFs with the help of IBM Watson’s huge data crunching capacity.  Read more…

Friday Fintech News: Mobile payments picking up the pace globally

Mobile payments news highlights include new developments from IBM Watson, Venmo, Apple Pay in India, bitcoin payments, a new mobile payments keyboard from PayKey and “International Pay Back a Friend Day.” IBM is partnering with Stellar and using its lumens coin and blockchain technology to build cross-border payments in the Pacific region. Venmo users can now pay online at an additional new 2 million PayPal affiliates. . Read more…