
Payments News in Brief – November 2019
Players’ Strategy CHINA – Wirecard sets to acquire all shares in Allscore Payments Services. This agreement, amounting to €72.4 million, gi...
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Players’ Strategy CHINA – Wirecard sets to acquire all shares in Allscore Payments Services. This agreement, amounting to €72.4 million, gi...
FACTS The Paris-based start-up Libeo, specialising in suppliers’ invoice management and payment, raised €2 million.
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – Active.Ai teams up with Visa to provide banking institutions with interactive AI-powered solutions (e.g.:...
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – BNP Paribas observed a sharp increase in their number of active mobile users for Hello bank! As well as consiste...
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – Nickel claims 4,800 agents (1 in 5 newsagents) or 60% increase year-over-year. Goal: attract 10,000 agents by 20...
INSTALMENTS – PayPlug Enters the Game The French start-up PayPlug (bought out in the end of 2016 by BPCE) launches an instalment option for ...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – As they reported strong process in turnover for 2018, the FinTech Treezor (owned by Société Générale since Septe...
FACTS The Credit Management Service provider AsiaCollect, which operates in Southeast Asia, just introduced a tool, called SmartAgent, for ...
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – PayPal falls short of expectations and reports $4.23Bn instead of $4.24Bn for Q4 2018. Even so, they stil...
FACTS Arkéa launches a mobile conversational agent for distance selling. This tool embeds a payment option for corporate e-commerce special...
Players’ Strategy INTERNATIONAL – nexo (international standard for accepting cross-border card payments) kept making progress and attracted...
FACTS The French POS device maker Ingenico unveils a payment solution for conversational agents using IMB’s AI technology and Natural Langu...
Players’ strategy INTERNATIONAL – N26 is now available in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Poland. Launched in 2013 in Germany, they keep focusi...
A conversational agent was introduced by OUI.sncf in December 2017 to help their users find and book train tickets (online and on their mobile ph...
Banque Casino unveiled a Messenger-based chatbot a year ago. They now report additional results regarding this service, which appears efficient i...
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – According to Bloomberg, Google and Mastercard would have entered a partnership last year on tracking card...
The Malian microfinance agency PAMF (Première Agence de Microfinance au Mali) partners with Orange, via their payment and money transfer service,...
Players’ Strategy INDIA – As their mobile money transfer app keeps growing successful in India, Google is getting ready to implement this s...
The neo-banking player Compte-Nickel was bought out a year ago by BNP Paribas. It is now rebranding to just “Nickel”. This service distributed th...