BPCE wants to democratize student loans
COPD Most recently announced its ambition to democratize student loans by offering funding exempt from personal security and without any conditio...
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Klarna launches a BNPL-based gift card service
Klarna has announced the roll-out of an innovative gift card service in the UK. This offer, accessible via the app, enables cards to be paid for ...
Zopa abandons its core business
Zopa, a specialist in peer-to-peer lending, has gradually established itself as a leading UK FinTech company. It reached an advanced stage of dev...
Qonto cautiously opens up to cryptocurrencies
The neo-bank for professionals Qonto has just evolved its services by allowing its customers to invest part of their cash in crypto-currencies. B...
Revolut hits record losses
The British neo-bank Revolut has just published the results of its activity for 2020. Its recently posted profitability is now giving way to sign...
Feedback: Orange Bank continues on an uncertain trajectory
FACTS The Orange Group presented the results of its global activity for the year 2020, taking the opportunity to review the results of its ...
BPCE: Digitalising Mortgages
FACTS Caisse d’Épargne Bourgogne Franche-Comté unveils a new format for subscribing mortgages.
The FinTech Alma Aims for Small Merchants
FACTS The French FinTech Alma was founded earlier this year by Stripe’s former DG Italy, Louis Chatriot. They just raised €3.3 million to b...
Volkswagen Tests a Subscription Offer with Drover
FACTS The financial arm of Volkswagen’s British subsidiary, Volkswagen Financial Services, launches a car subscription service in partnersh...
Open-Banking: Yolt Hits the BtoB Market
FACTS Yolt –account aggregation service by ING– aims for BtoB market segments, in addition to their APIs enabling individual customers to a...
News in Brief – November 2018
Players’ strategy INTERNATIONAL – N26 is now available in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Poland. Launched in 2013 in Germany, they keep focusi...
Insurance: Amazon Lands in France with Aviva
Aviva France partners with the e-commerce leader Amazon, whose Amazon Pay solution will include an online subscription service for insurance poli...
Yolt Aggregation Service by ING Launches in France
ING recently invested in the BtoB aggregation service Cobase and keeps focusing on increasing Yolt’s reach in Europe, as they just made it availa...
Afterpay Enters the US market
After their “Buy now – Pay later” business proved successful in Australia, Afterpay is aiming for the US market through a partnership with Urban ...
OCBC: Voice Banking Services Using Google Assistant
OCBC stands out as one of the first banks globally (and first in Singapore) to implement a voice based banking service using Google Assistant. A ...
“Prêt Express” by La Banque Postale: Near-Instant Credit Online and in Branches
Over the past few weeks, La Banque Postale has been experimenting a near-instant granting process for consumer credit applications in their branc...
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...
Fraud Situation in the UK
A new report released by the UK Fraud Prevention Service, CIFAS, highlights a 9% increase in fraud rates in 2011 in the UK (vs. 2010): personal a...
Social Networks: Facebook Data Security Policy Again Put to Question
Canadian researchers from the University of British Columbia have been focusing on the possible use of automated tools to retrieve data stored on...
ATM Fraud: Thermal Camera an PIN code Retrieval
During the USENIX Security Symposium from 8 to 12 August 2011, researchers of the University of California presented their recent study Heat of t...
