Visa acquires Featurespace to fight fraud more effectively
American payment giant Visa recently announced its strategic decision to acquire British transactional fraud prevention and detection specialist ...
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JCB tests MDBC payment at the point of sale
JCB has announced the launch of a pilot project to enable the use of Japan's central bank digital currency at the point of sale. For this, th...
Sofinco and Renault launch a credit card dedicated to electric mobility
Sofinco, Mobilize Financial Services (a Renault subsidiary), and DIAC have been partners since 2006. Today, they are renewing this association by...
MasterCard expands its consulting activities
MasterCard's advisory service has been expanded to include three major new topics: Open Banking, crypto-assets and ESG issues (concerning env...
Feedback: Bizum unveils pan-European ambitions
FACTS In 2016, Spanish banks joined forces to launch Bizum, a joint solution for mobile payment by credit transfer. Four years late...
Bluetana: New App for Fighting Skimmers
FACTS Researchers from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, San Diego, designed a mobile app for...
Zone2boost: New Acceleration Programme for FinTechs
FACTS Ingenico, CaixaBank and Global Payments unveiled an international innovation programme for start-ups in the financial and retail mark...
AI: Fintel Refining Credit Scores
FACTS The Marseille-based start-up Fintel was founded in 2019 and launched a tool for assessing applicants’ creditworthiness in just a few ...
Younited Credit Opts for a Full Digital Approach
FACTS The French online consumer lending company Younited Credit generalises digital signing procedures and now features a full digital off...
Vein Recognition for Payments Implemented in Manchester
Photo credits: Fingopay FACTS The British FinTech Fingopay, which identifies customers using maps of their finger vein patterns, announc...
News in Brief – October 2018
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Revolut applies for a banking licence in Luxembourg. This start-up has been granted EMI status in the UK and rel...
CMC-CIC Innovation Invests in Universign
Universign –French vendor specialising in e-signing processes– just raised €12 million. This funding round was led by historical shareholder CM-C...
The Apple Watch Also Stores Student Cards
Earlier this month, Apple introduced a set of new features along with their recent Apple Watch update. On this occasion, partnerships with US uni...
Looking Back on Full-Digital Applications for Personal Loans with Younited Credit
The online consumer lending company Younited Credit introduced a digital signing service in November 2017. The point was to implement a faster (1...
News in Brief – April 2018
Players’ Strategy INDIA – As their mobile money transfer app keeps growing successful in India, Google is getting ready to implement this s...
Car Loans Take the AR Turn
Capital One’s car financing subsidiary unveils an Augmented Reality based feature enabling customers to take a picture of a vehicle on the street...
SoFi and WeWork Disrupting the Sharing Economy
On the US FinTech market, SoFi (which praises a new approach to dealing with credit services and wealth management for young workers) and coworki...
Mastercard Biometric Payment to Go Global By 2019
In line with current regulatory requirements regarding strong authentication, biometric processes are breaking grounds in the payments landscape....
RSA Fighting Mobile Malware
To counter the emergence of mobile malware on leading app stores, RSA, EMC’s security division, launches its FraudAction™ Anti Rogue App Service ...
Moneo Signs Partnership Agreements with Three New Universities
After successfully launching services specially aimed at universities, Moneo Payment Solutions is to develop a similar concept to match the needs...
