ClickandBuy International Ltd is an e-commerce business that allows payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. It is one of the largest online payment service provider

Payment Service Provider

A payment service provider offers merchants online services for accepting electronic payments by a variety of payment methods including credit card, bank-based payments such as direct debit, bank transfer, and real-time bank transfer based on online banking...

s on the Internet. Their website claims ClickandBuy now has over 13 million customers who can pay at over 16,000 merchants – including the Apple iTunes Store, AOL, MSN, Napster, Orange, Parship, bwin, McAfee, and Steam.

Originally established in 1999 in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Germany, they later established operations in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 with head offices in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 and under the regulation of the Financial Services Authority

Financial Services Authority

The Financial Services Authority is a quasi-judicial body responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its board is appointed by the Treasury and the organisation is structured as a company limited by guarantee and owned by the UK government. Its main...

 (FSA). On 25 March 2010 it was announced that Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe....

had acquired ClickandBuy International Ltd.

External links

• http://www.clickandbuy.com/WW_en/payment/index.html
• http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=21223
• http://www.telekom.com/dtag/cms/content/dt/en/838228
• http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/clickandbuy-the-european-paypal-lets-facebook-users-set-up-shop/