REX: Zen’Up Making the Most of the Bourquin Law
FACTS The InsurTech Zen'Up –which specialises in digital insurance services– reports on their activity one year after the Bourquin Amendmen...
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Digital Insure Launches a Digital Tool for Brokers
The French InsurTech Digital Insure launches “Multinet Inside”: a digital platform enabling brokers to compare borrowers’ insurance policies more...
Afi Esca Adds Mobile-Based Digital Signing for Borrowers’ Insurance
The insurance company Afi Esca keeps focusing on paperless processes and digital contract signing applied to borrowers’ insurance options. They a...
Wedou Rolls Out a Bot for Borrowers’ Insurance
On September 1st, the InsurTech Wedou launched the first chatbot for borrowers’ insurance in France. This service called “eWedou” helps mortgage ...
Borrowers’ Insurance: Yearly Cancellation Already Has a Cost for Banks
Since January this year, and in compliance with the Bourquin Amendment, consumers are entitled to renegotiate their borrowers’ insurance when the...
Borrowers’ Insurance: Allianz New Online Simulator Helps Customers Save Money
Allianz France –subsidiary of the German insurance company– aims for the market of borrowers’ insurance. They unveiled an online simulator helpin...
Borrowers Insurance: Agéa Trains their Teams
As customers can now cancel their borrowers’ insurance contract after an initial period of twelve months, brokers, financial advisors, banks, len...
Finance Management Specialist Launches “The Approved Card”
The US personal finance management specialist Suze Orman launches a prepaid top-up card in partnership with MasterCard to help consumers master t...
Interchanges: Merchants Attacking Fed Reform
In the US, three national merchant federations and two retailers have filed a complaint to oppose the debit interchange reform set by the Federal...
Card Fees: to Impact Customer Loyalty
According to the Research Intelligence Group, one third of the US banking customers may plan to change bank if asked to pay additional debit card...
Card Issuing: BofA Introducing Additional Monthly fee Starting 2012
As of 2012, Bank of America will start charging some current account holders five dollars per month for credit card service. This additional c...
Interchange: Fed Watered-Down Interchange Caps
The US Federal Reserve finally set the cap at 21 cents per debit card transaction, rather than the 12 cents limit proposed in its January consult...
SEPA Migration: Compromise on Regulation Draft
A new legislative step, the ECOFIN Council adopted a compromise on the European Regulation draft setting SEPA migration end-dates. This agreement...
Google Focussing on Customer Loyalty
Ingenico confirmed Google’s NFC-enabled terminals order. These POS terminals will be able to receive and process discount coupons downloaded by c...
Visa Enters Square Board
Visa is now part of Square’s board through capital investment. The young company sells a white square magnetic stripe reader enabling iOS termin...
Visa Bets on the Durbin Amendment
During Dallas-Auto Finance Risk Summit, Visa promoted the use of debit cards. Car loan organisations are invited to accept monthly reimbursements...
Cards: Parliamentary Investigation on Merchant Fees
Christine Lagarde, French Minister of the Economy, asked three Members of Parliament to investigate on Merchant Service Charges paid by merchants...
Senate Amendment to Delay Debit Interchange Cap
A bi-partisan Senate bill aims to set a two-year delay to cap the interchange fee on US debit card. US Fed’s regulation project, under consultati...
Payments: Bank’s Revenues Fall 7%
According to a study conducted by the BCG, bank revenues derived from retail payments dropped 7% per year on average between end 2008 and end 201...
Analysis: Prepaid Solutions Pushed by the Durbin Amendment
An American consulting company explains how the revision of US card business models can stimulate the offer of prepaid card accounts by the banks...
