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Towards the 2025 insurance market
Faced with rapid societal transformations, technological advances and changing customer expectations, the insurance sector is at a strategic cros...
Bluecode presents an NFC hybridization solution for its wallet
Bluecode is a pan-European mobile payment solution for banks and retailers. Based in Switzerland, but also operating in Germany and Austria, the ...
In brief: FIS changes its strategy and divests Worldpay
Less than four years after buying it for a record 43 billion dollars, the American FIS wants to separate itself from the payment service provider...
Payment insight October 2022
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BPCE merges Payplug and Dalenys to gain strength in the payment market
The BPCE group has just revealed its new strategy to impose itself on the European payment market. And this strategy resolutely involves the conc...
When Revolut becomes a travel operator
Revolut has announced the launch of a new extra-financial service far removed from its core business. Called Stays, it will serve as a Swiss Army...
Pennylane adds GoCardless to its B2B marketplace offering
London-based FinTech GoCardless, which specializes in the dematerialization and simplification of recurring payments by direct debit, has announc...
In brief: Worldline acquires a leading player in Greece
Payment specialist Worldline has just announced that it has acquired 92.5% of the capital of Greek card payment acceptance specialist Cardlink. C...
Global Payments Acquires TSYS
FACTS The American provider of payment technology Global Payments acquires Total System Services for $21.5 billion (roughly €18.9 billion) ...
News in Brief – October 2018
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Revolut applies for a banking licence in Luxembourg. This start-up has been granted EMI status in the UK and rel...
News in Brief – June 2018
Players’ Strategy INDIA – The Indian manufacturer of retail POS solution Pine Labs announces a $125 million founding round from PayPal and ...
Nets and Concardis Forge Strategic Partnership
At this year’s Money 20/20 Europe event in Amsterdam, the Danish payment solutions specialist Nets announced a merger with the German cash paymen...
ADN’co Payments Insight – June 2017
Players’ strategies – FinTech companies following in banks’ footsteps EUROPE – Klarna has been granted a banking licence allowing them to l...
ADN’co Payments Insight – January 2015
Securing card data: a well-understood issue UNITED STATES – MasterCard and Dynamics officially unveiled their new display card allowing for...
ADN’co Payments Insight – December 2014
Interbank mobile wallets: more services for broader adoption CANADA – Two Canadian banks have unveiled their mobile wallet, UGO: an all-inc...
ADN’co Payments Insight – November 2014
Apple Pay, but not only… FRANCE – Visa prepares an HCE-based mobile contactless payment app . Tests would be scheduled to start in March 20...
Skrill Buys Paysafecard
The UK payments specialist Skrill (ex-Moneybookers, mostly owned by Investcorp) announces it has acquired the Austrian prepaid specialist Paysafe...
iDEAL’s Evolution in the Netherlands
Ever since it was launched (in 2005) on the webstore Fietspunt.nl, the Dutch solution iDEAL enabled it to process 250 million transactions. Consu...
Mobile Payment: NTT DoCoMo Acquires Werther Bank
The Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo buys a European financial institution through a controlling stake in Bankverein Werther. Implanted in th...
