Malakoff Humanis offers My Little Placement
The Social Protection Officer Malakoff Humanis recently announced its acquisition of a majority stake in the capital of a start-up specializing in savings and financial investments: My Little Placement. This strategic decision allows the French social protection group to modernise and diversify its offer.
FACTS
- Malakoff Humanis therefore announced its acquisition of a majority stake in the capital of Mon Petit Placement in order to consolidate its position in the savings market.
- Malakoff Humanis will now hold 65% of FinTech's capital, with its CEO holding 15% of the shares. Mutualist France, which became a subsidiary of Malakoff Humanis in April 2024, owns 20% of the shares.
- In particular, this decision is motivated by Malakoff Humanis' ambition to participate in the democratization of savings and investment solutions, and to target young people, who represent 40 per cent of Mon Petit Placement's clients.
- The management team of Mon Petit Placement, which remains a shareholder, will continue its piloting work independently.
ISSUES
- Consolidate approach : The strategic decision taken today by Malakoff Humanis represents a consolidation for the global positioning of the group rather than a real strategic evolution. Indeed, La France Mutualiste invested Nearly 5 million euros in the Lyon FinTech in October 2023.
- Changing its offer : Already, at the time of the participation of La France Mutualiste in Mon Petit Placement, the objective of the two actors was to create synergies between their groups. My Petit Placement now distributes La France Mutualiste's life insurance and pension savings plan (PER) products, a winning bet, while in 2024, La France Mutualiste's life insurance products and individual PER represented more than 50% of the start-up collection. In addition to this commercial relay, France Mutualist uses FinTech's expertise to ensure its digital transformation. And today, Malakoff Humanis hopes to capitalize on the same positive effects of this alliance of forces.
PERSPECTIVE
- The investments in FinTechs in Europe have dropped Recently, from $26 billion in 2022 to $9.2 billion in 2023. The situation was also underlined for the French market by the Observatory FinTech.
- If signs of recovery In 2024, Malakoff Humanis and Mon Petit Placement's rapprochement demonstrated the ever-increasing interest in synergies between traditional groups and FinTechs, and the winning character of this type of strategy.
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