Credit News in Brief - February 2019
PLAYERS’ STRATEGIES – Agos Buys Out Banco BPM Subsidiary Agos –Joint Venture by Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance and Banco BPM– buys out Pro...
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PLAYERS’ STRATEGIES – Agos Buys Out Banco BPM Subsidiary Agos –Joint Venture by Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance and Banco BPM– buys out Pro...
Players’ strategies – Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent… ambitions made even clearer UNITED STATES – Amazon unveils Amazon Pay Places: enabling thei...
Players’ strategies – FinTech companies following in banks’ footsteps EUROPE – Klarna has been granted a banking licence allowing them to l...
Players’ strategies – When giants build bridges EUROPE – MasterCard would be getting ready to buy out most of VocaLink’s shares. The UK pro...
Instant Payment – Instant Credit Transfer Taking-Off in Europe FRANCE – The mobile-based P2P instant credit transfer service “Paylib entre...
Players’ strategies – French retail industry bets on Lyf Pay FRANCE – The cross-industry consortium Lyf Pay has just been unveiled: this...
Virtual currencies – More room for the Blockchain in banking players’ strategies FRANCE – The Caisse des Dépôts and several French banks ar...
Players’ strategies – First level bridge buildings WORLD – Visa Inc. confirms the acquisition of Visa Europe for 21.2 billion euros. EURO...
The British government has decided to reform the way decisions are made on payment strategies in the United Kingdom and to amend the bank-owned s...
Retail – Large-Scale Retail Groups Entering the FinTech Ecosystem FRANCE – Oney partners with Wirecard to add a biometric payment option. R...
Schemes – Balance expected to shift in France and affect card networks’ strategies FRANCE – French merchants and consumers may now choose t...
Visa proposes Visa Strategy Manager: a new solution designed to help financial institutions with defining and implementing strategies to identify...
Players’ Strategy – Consolidations Building the Future of Payments DENMARK / GERMANY – The Danish payment solutions specialist Nets merges ...
Connected media – From wearables to robots, payment checkout on the move INTERNATIONAL – Samsung and SmartLink are intending to propose a p...
LAST MINUTE: Rumours regarding Apple Pay’s arrival in France are being confirmed. Discussions would be underway with several banks to propose thi...
Virtual currencies – Bitcoin made more visible with PayZen EUROPE – PayZen considers next generation means of payment to broaden its range ...
First French launch for Oberthur’s dynamic CVx cards FRANCE – BPCE, Natixis Payment Solutions and Oberthur present their dynamic CVx card: ...
Twitter making payments headlines, again UNITED KINGDOM – Barclays adds a Twitter-based transfer feature to its mobile payment service Ping...
Visa’s digital wallet V.me has already been made available with five partner e merchants (Buy.com, Bidz.com, Cooking.com, Modique and PacSun) and...
The security of mobile phones, and other smartphones, now preoccupies players who want to protect these new multitask devices. During the RSA Con...