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Digital Euro aims to be a simple currency
The European Central Bank has unveiled its vision for its future central bank digital currency. The institution talks about a consumer applicatio...
FDJ now offers to pay rent in tobacco shops
La Française des Jeux (FDJ) is continuing its push into the payments sector and has announced the launch of a solution that will allow peo...
The Bank of Spain approves the issuance of the first ever digital euros by MONEI
Spanish fintech MONEI has announced that the Bank of Spain has authorised the licensed payment fintech to issue a euro stablecoin, EURM, in its s...
Lemonway and Hokodo partner to offer payment solutions to marketplaces
Lemonway, the leading pan-European payment processor for marketplaces, and Hokodo, the UK's Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech, have announced ...
Splitit to power AliExpress' fractional payment offering in Europe
White label fragmented payment solution Splitit has announced a partnership with Alipay to offer a 'pay after delivery' option to shopper...
In short: Railsr soon to be acquired?
Flutterwave (an African payment fintech) and a consortium of Railsr shareholders are in the running to buy the UK fintech, despite a difficult fi...
Klarna partners with Ingenico for in-store BNPL
Klarna has partnered with payment terminal company Ingenico to extend its buy now, pay later service to the in-store checkout. The partnership wi...
e-CNY payment becomes available offline
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has added a feature to its yuan digital payment app that allows users to continue making offline payments u...
BNP Paribas chooses Libeo for invoice digitization
After two years of preparatory work in collaboration with the bank, Libeo has won a major partnership with BNP Paribas. The fintech specialising ...
Soldo provides prepaid cards for UK social services
Expense and expense management platform Soldo has won the tender to provide payment solutions for Crown Commercial Service (CCS) prepaid cards, e...
Moneytrack raises a further €2 million
Moneytrack has developed a platform for organising transactions based on expenditure rules, using smart contracts. Operating on a blockchain, its...
Feedback: Lemonway aims to be profitable by 2023
Pan-European payment institution Lemonway continues to grow in Europe with revenues of €7.7 billion, up 39% in 2022. According to the fintec...
Amazon expands its Buy with Prime "-as-a-Service" program
Launched in April 2022, "Buy with Prime" was previously reserved for certain merchants selected by the American giant. As of 31 January...
In brief: Lyf makes it easier to pay for parking
Parcus and Lyf have joined forces to develop a post-payment service in Parcus car parks and to facilitate hourly parking with a completely demate...
Smartpay launches open banking credit in Japan
Japanese fintech Smartpay has launched a new service that will allow customers to pay for goods online in instalments, directly from their bank a...
Allianz, Santander and Two join forces to launch a BNPL offer dedicated to large accounts
After merchants and small businesses, large companies are this time the target of the new fractional payment offer created by the credit insuranc...
Welcome.Place launches a payment card for refugees in France with Visa
Enfuce, a Finnish fintech, has announced the launch of a pilot project with the charity neo-bank Welcome.Place. The aim is to distribute prepaid ...
PIX changes its capping rules
New rules for Pix transaction limits start to apply from the beginning of 2023. With these changes, transactions in the instant payment system CB...
Worldline and Splitit reconcile BNPL and credit cards
Worldline and fractional payment service provider Splitit have partnered to develop a card-based staggered payment solution for Worldline's n...
