
ADN’co Payments Insight – December 2019
Cards – The Rise of Eco-Friendly Payment Cards EUROPE – Bunq launches an eco-friendly payment card. Read more FINLAND – Enfuce tracks d...
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Cards – The Rise of Eco-Friendly Payment Cards EUROPE – Bunq launches an eco-friendly payment card. Read more FINLAND – Enfuce tracks d...
FACTS Ripple, the San Francisco-based Blockchain specialist, just raised $200 million, lifting their valuation to $10 billion.
Players’ Strategy CHINA – Wirecard sets to acquire all shares in Allscore Payments Services. This agreement, amounting to €72.4 million, gi...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – China UnionPay partners with the British start-up Tribe Payments on launching their services in Europe. In addit...
FACTS The Californian start-up Ripple behind a Blockchain-based real-time payment protocol announces a 2-year strategic partnership with tr...
FACTS The interbank network SWIFT announces a Proof of Concept on trialling a gateway for interlinking trading and e-commerce platforms wit...
Players’ Strategy INTERNATIONAL – nexo (international standard for accepting cross-border card payments) kept making progress and attracted...
FACTS As cross-border payments keep ramping up, the interbank network SWIFT announces they achieved record volumes and managed to attract n...
FACTS Visa buys out the London-based payment firm Earthport –which focuses on cross-border payment systems– for £198 million (roughly €219 ...
FACTS The interbank messaging network tests a new solution for pre-validating SWIFT gpi international payment.
Players’ strategy INTERNATIONAL – N26 is now available in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Poland. Launched in 2013 in Germany, they keep focusi...
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 UNITED STATES – According to Bloomberg, Google and Mastercard would have entered a partnership last year on t...
Players’ Strategy INDIA – The Indian manufacturer of retail POS solution Pine Labs announces a $125 million founding round from PayPal and ...
Ripple already talked several financial institutions into adopting their Blockchain solutions for payments, including Banco Santander and Crédit ...
The Brazilian secured lending platform Creditas announces a 55 million dollars funding round with Santander InnoVentures (Santander’s FinTech ven...
Players’ Strategy MEXICO – Amazon launches their Amazon Rechargeable debit card in Mexico enabling unbanked customers to make e-purchases. ...
Chatbots are increasingly being used in financial contexts and have been improved over the months to perform complex tasks, including even traini...
Players’ Strategy INTERNATIONAL – eBay officially chooses Adyen instead of their long-time –and once payment subsidiary– PayPal. Adyen will...
The Spanish bank introduces a new Blockchain-based cross-border mobile payment solution. They rely on Ripple’s network to let individual customer...