A changing landscape

The next few years will end up changing how both e-commerce and e-payments are defined, writes Quinton O’Reilly

Marc O’Dwyer, chief executive, Big Red Cloud Picture: Jason Clarke

When you think about e-commerce or e-payments, the likely image is going to somewhere like Amazon, picking an item and then buying it through a portal. The reality is that newer ways of carrying out online transitions or handling finances are going to emerge over the next few years, and the landscape may change drastically between then and now.

The best place to start is an EU directive which came into effect this ...