Solaris acquires Contis to form a Banking-as-a-Service champion
Solarisbank, the German banking platform is expanding in Europe. After raising €190 million in a Series D financing round, at a valuation of...
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Regulatory insight on the challenges of strong authentication and SMS OTP
FACTS The ACPR recently reminded PSPs of their obligation to reimburse all fees related to unauthorized bank card transactions within one b...
Lydia Announces another Funding Round, Attracts Tencent
FACTS The Paris-based mobile payment FinTech Lydia announces a €40 million financing round.
REX: Good Start for Ma French Bank
FACTS La Banque Postale highlights initial results for their challenger bank Ma French Bank. They already report higher results than expect...
Le Marché: Lydia Structuring their Marketplace
FACTS Lydia has been making headway in France with their P2P payment solution. They now unveil a marketplace for financial services. This l...
Lydia and Banque Casino Unveil an Instant Credit Offer
FACTS The P2P payment specialist Lydia partners with Banque Casino on launching an instant consumer lending service, for 30,000 Lydia cardh...
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...
Card Fraud: France Still in Top 3 of Main Targets in Europe
Card fraud-related losses in Europe significantly decreased between 2012 and 2016 as authentication measures improved. The ECB just released thei...
Cross-Border Payments: PayU Acquires Zooz
PayU –payment subsidiary of Naspers Group– acquires the Israel-based start-up Zooz. This announcement occurs just after their rival PayPal led a ...
ADN’co Payments Insight – September 2014
Apple Pay: first blasts hitting an ongoing revolution? UNITED STATES – Apple unveils three new products and a payment service called Apple ...
Mobile Collection: Square’s Monthly Pricing
Square now lets merchants collecting up to 250,000 dollar every year pay 275 dollar per months and avoid its generally charged 2.75% processing f...
Annual Report on Payment Cards’ Security
This year’s Observatoire de la sécurité des cartes de paiement, released on 2nd July, highlights an overall fraud rate of 0.077% for 2011, up to ...
Social Networks: Partnership between Socure and ValidSoft
The US developer Socure and the Irish ValidSoft, subsidiary of the strong authentication specialist Elephant Talk Communications, have partnered ...
MasterCard Designing Fraud Detection Tools for E-merchants
MasterCard plans to propose a new real-time CNP fraud detection service to its e-merchants starting May 2012, Expert Monitoring Fraud Scoring for...
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...
Card Fraud: UFC Que Choisir Worried about Increasing CNP Fraud Figures
French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir is worried about current French online card fraud figures: its recent study reminds that online card ...
Cards: New SEPA Cards Standardisation Volume
The SEPA Cards Standardisation Volume version 6.0 released by the EPC provides technical update and adds further card standards for Europe (Book ...
Authentication: Visa certifies Entersect
Visa has certified Entersect’s authentication solution for online card transactions and CNP fraud prevention. According to the South African Bank...
Fraud Detection: The U.S. Bank Proposes New Detection Alert
In line with its programme designed to improve real-time follow-up of financial transactions, the U.S. Bank no longer limits its mobile alerts to...
Compliance: Visa Pleading for EMV
Visa intends to fasten the adoption of EMV in the US. According to this player, opting for dual mag-stripe/smartcard cards could help prepare the...
