News in Brief – December 2018
Players’ Strategy RUSSIA – Ingenico partners with several Russian banks on streamlining payments for international e-merchants with operati...
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Players’ Strategy RUSSIA – Ingenico partners with several Russian banks on streamlining payments for international e-merchants with operati...
The ready-made brand Etam considers launching a home delivery service, enabling their customers to try on the products and pay later for these it...
FACTS The neo-bank iBanFirst is now generalizing a high value-added service for companies, namely the tracing of international payments. ...
Ticketchainer is a startup with the FrenchTech label and has joined the Parisian incubator Le Tremplin. Recently, it has managed to attract sever...
FACTS The French sporting goods retailer Decathlon rolls out a mobile self-checkout service across all their stores in the Netherlands.
The Malian microfinance agency PAMF (Première Agence de Microfinance au Mali) partners with Orange, via their payment and money transfer service,...
FACTS As cross-border payments keep ramping up, the interbank network SWIFT announces they achieved record volumes and managed to attract n...
FACTS Just 7 months after an €11 million funding round, Lunchr –start-up whose model is based on dematerialising meal vouchers– announces a...
The global provider of financial messaging services SWIFT has been testing their gpi offer for over a year by more than 150 institutions worldwid...
Welcome Real-time launches a real-time loyalty tool to fit the needs of all points of sales; their new offer has been designed for acquirers and ...
The online security specialist IdentityMind™ announced the availability of their Antifraud Platform for the general market: this product allows f...
MasterCard acquires California-based Truaxis (ex-BillShrink), service provider specialising in card reward offers among other sectors. Truaxis’s ...
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – According to Bloomberg, Google and Mastercard would have entered a partnership last year on t...
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
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 EUROPE – Revolut applies for a banking licence in Luxembourg. This start-up has been granted EMI status in the UK and rel...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Elavon (subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp) partners with Société Générale on addressing eight European markets: United ...
Players’ Strategy INDIA – The Indian manufacturer of retail POS solution Pine Labs announces a $125 million founding round from PayPal and ...
A new player is committed to more environmentally responsible finance. Called Sweep, its positioning is distinguished firstly by its target, sinc...
FACTS DIAC, subsidiary of RCI Bank & Services, reports promising results for their DIACBOX app.