Visa Flexible Credential arrives in the U.S.
While the solution was presented as a flagship innovation by the American scheme last May, Visa Flexible Credential has finally lived up to its a...
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Tencent and Visa regain control of palm payments
While Amazon has been looking to deploy palm recognition in its services for several years now, Visa is now also getting involved in this trend. ...
Satispay raises funds and sets up in France
Italian FinTech specialized in mobile payment, Satispay, recently showed its success in its home market and can claim to be the only unicorn in t...
Lydia becomes a new French Unicorn
Lydia is back in the news, shortly after launching its trading business to further diversify. The FinTech, which had previously raised 112million...
Lydia's turn to give in to the sirens of Buy Now Pay Later
FinTech Lydia, which initially specialized in mobile payments, is now diversifying its offer by focusing on fragmented payments.
The Chinese TikTok launches a payment solution
FACTS The Chinese company ByteDance is known worldwide for launching the social network TikTok. It also offers a Chinese version of...
REX: N26 Hits 5M Customers Milestone
FACTS The German FinTech N26 hit the 5 million customers’ milestone (including 1 million in France). N26 deems that 2019 “turned out to be ...
Qonto Closes a Major Financing Round, Aims for Banking Status
FACTS The neo-bank for SMEs Qonto announces a major financing round on the French FinTech market.
Lydia Announces another Funding Round, Attracts Tencent
FACTS The Paris-based mobile payment FinTech Lydia announces a €40 million financing round.
Tencent Selling Loans through Video-Streaming Platform
FACTS WeBank, digital bank by Tencent, introduces a new lending offer available from their video-streaming platform.
Alipay Aims for 10 Million Merchants in Europe
FACTS During the Global Summit held in London, Alibaba’s payment platform unveiled their strategic plan to European merchants.
REX: Promising Results for NuBank
FACTS The Brazilian FinTech NuBank claims 15 million customers. This leading Latin American start-up confirms their status: they are the wo...
WeChat Pay Makes Plans for an Instalment Option
FACTS Tencent would be planning to add an instalment service in China by the end of the year. This option, called “Fen Fu” for now, should...
Creditas Further Expanding in Brazil
FACTS After they announced an investment from Santander InnoVenture in 2018, the Brazilian start-up Creditas raised $231 million from Japan...
News in Brief – May 2019
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...
P2P Payments: Facebook Unfolds New Strategy
Photo credits: The Star On Line FACTS The American Web giant Facebook chooses London to establish their new team for WhatsApp-based inte...
Carrefour Generalising Face Recognition for Payments in China
FACTS At this year’s China Connect event held on March 12th and 13th in Paris, the retail giant described their omnichannel approach and st...
Facebook Building their Own Cryptocurrency
FACTS Last spring, Facebook’s CEO announced they intended to work on a Blockchain and craft their own cryptocurrency.
News in Brief – February 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – PayPal falls short of expectations and reports $4.23Bn instead of $4.24Bn for Q4 2018. Even so, they stil...
Mobile Payment: WeChat Pay Accepted at BHV Marais
FACTS Tencent, the Chinese Web giant behind the messaging service WeChat teams up with BHV Marais, their mobile payment service will be mad...
