Amazon Applying Hand Vein Recognition to Payments
FACTS The e-commerce giant Amazon recently filed a patent where they describe a biometric payment system relying on hand vein recognition. ...
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Formal Opening Announced for Amazon Go
Amazon has been spending years focusing on the “Just Walk Out” concept, giving thought to a wide array of technologies they now implement in thei...
Retail: Zippin following in the Footsteps of Amazon Go
A second Amazon Go location was opened in Seattle recently, and a new entrant, Zippin, leads the way in San Francisco with a similar approach. Th...
Financial Technologies: a New Brand for Ant Financial
After a $14 billion funding round, Alibaba’s financial arm introduced a new brand focusing on financial technologies. As part of their strategic ...
Hyundai Partners with Amazon on Designing the Future of Retail
A few months ago, Amazon Go was officially opened in Seattle after this first launch had been delayed, their cashierless store concept then hit C...
Sensei wants to democratize the cashless store
FACTS Cashless store model is growing in response to an increasing demand from the retailers. But for the moment, a unique model has not em...
ADN’co Payments Insight – August 2018
POS Checkout – Cashierless Stores: a Tsunami Washing over the Retail Industry UNITED STATES – Inokyo –start-up focusing on commerce automat...
ADN’co Payments Insight – July 2019
POS Checkout – In-Store Mobile Payments Gaining Ground SPAIN – Lidl tests their QR code-based mobile payment solution, Lidl Pay. Read more ...
News in Brief – August 2018
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – HiPay releases their results for H1 2018, reporting €13 million turnover (+12%) and €1.3 billion processed trans...
ADN’co Payments Insight – March 2018
POS Collection – 2018 Transitioning Towards the Cashierless Journey SAPIN – BBVA tests an “invisible” payment solution with help from some ...
Payments News in Brief – September 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
News in Brief – March 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – As they reported strong process in turnover for 2018, the FinTech Treezor (owned by Société Générale since Septe...
News in Brief – June 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – China UnionPay partners with the British start-up Tribe Payments on launching their services in Europe. In addit...
News in Brief – September 2018
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – According to Bloomberg, Google and Mastercard would have entered a partnership last year on t...
News in Brief – July 2018
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – The multi-currency transaction specialist iBanFirst launches an online exchange coverage service. This service d...
Tanda: a Social Savings App by Yahoo
More and more customers have been adopting next-generation technologies to handle financial management aspects. These customers expect both easy ...
In-Car Payment: Alexa to Pay for Fuel
FACTS During the CES 2020, Amazon announced a strategic partnership with ExxonMobil and Fiserv.
E-Commerce: Carrefour and Google Join Forces
The French retailer keeps praising a digital strategy: they already partnered with Tencent to aim for the Chinese market and an agreement with Go...
A Saturn Store with no Cash Counter
Following the launch of Amazon Go, more solutions focusing on removing the checkout step have started to surface. This concept is now landing in ...
Dutch Retail Chain Albert Heijn Experiments Cashierless Stores
More technological solutions are seeing the day to help retail players skip the typical in-store checkout step. Recently, Albert Heijn introduced...
