
Payments News in Brief – December 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Monese lets their UK customers open joint accounts and starts featuring joint accounts in euros for EEA ...
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Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Monese lets their UK customers open joint accounts and starts featuring joint accounts in euros for EEA ...
Players’ Strategy CHINA – Wirecard sets to acquire all shares in Allscore Payments Services. This agreement, amounting to €72.4 million, gi...
Players’ Strategy – Major League Taking Action UNITED STATES – Google gest ready to launch a checking account. Read more UNITED STATES –...
Players’ Strategy – More Launches and Investments for PayPal UNITED STATES – PayPal and Synchrony are jointly building a credit card for Ve...
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – Active.Ai teams up with Visa to provide banking institutions with interactive AI-powered solutions (e.g.:...
Players’ Strategy – e-Banking: the Race Towards Customer Acquisition FRANCE – ING launches a free, non-income-dependent offer for the sake...
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – BNP Paribas observed a sharp increase in their number of active mobile users for Hello bank! As well as consiste...
Players’ Strategy – Banking Identification: Biometrics Growing Popular INTERNATIONAL – BBVA plans to feature digital customer onboarding by...
Players’ strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Yolt expands the ongoing test phase for their payment initiation service. They now aim for Nationwide, ...
POS Checkout – In-Store Mobile Payments Gaining Ground SPAIN – Lidl tests their QR code-based mobile payment solution, Lidl Pay. Read more ...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – China UnionPay partners with the British start-up Tribe Payments on launching their services in Europe. In addit...
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – Nickel claims 4,800 agents (1 in 5 newsagents) or 60% increase year-over-year. Goal: attract 10,000 agents by 20...
Players’ Strategy – FinTechs Racing for Investments and Valuation UNITED KINGDOM – The British unicorn TransferWise sees their valuation i...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Elavon (subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp) partners with Société Générale on addressing eight European markets: United ...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – As they reported strong process in turnover for 2018, the FinTech Treezor (owned by Société Générale since Septe...
PLAYERS’ STRATEGIES – Agos Buys Out Banco BPM Subsidiary Agos –Joint Venture by Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance and Banco BPM– buys out Pro...
Retail – Large-Scale Retail Groups Entering the FinTech Ecosystem FRANCE – Oney partners with Wirecard to add a biometric payment option. R...
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – PayPal falls short of expectations and reports $4.23Bn instead of $4.24Bn for Q4 2018. Even so, they stil...
Players’ Strategy INTERNATIONAL – nexo (international standard for accepting cross-border card payments) kept making progress and attracted...