• Payment
• 03.09.2019

News in Brief – August 2019

Players’ Strategy FRANCE – BNP Paribas observed a sharp increase in their number of active mobile users for Hello bank! As well as consistent growth for Nickel. They claim 4 million active mobile users all in all (+22% vs Q2 2018). The number o...

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• Mobility
• Distribution Channel – Internet
• 30.08.2019

REX: Dacia Sells Cars Online

FACTS In the end of 2018, the British market welcomed a new service for selling new Dacia cars online.

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 22.08.2019

Nike Adds Subscription Service for Shoes

FACTS launches a subscription service enabling parents to rent sneakers (Nike and Converse) for their kids ages 2 to 10.

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 19.08.2019

Pay Later: Sezzle Lands in Australia

FACTS The American e-commerce platform Sezzle raised $30 million and is now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 06.08.2019

PayPal Introduces an Invoicing API

FACTS PayPal feature a faster and easier-to-use service for sending invoices, regardless of the selected platform.

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 06.08.2019

Amazon Adds Subscription-Based Boxes

FACTS Amazon adds a service called Personal Shopper by Prime Wardrobe for shipping clothes to customers’ home address in boxes.

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• Payment
• 06.08.2019

News in Brief – July 2019

Players’ strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Yolt expands the ongoing test phase for their payment initiation service. They now aim for Nationwide, Santander and Barclays customers in the UK, as well. Yolt Pay Beta started being tested 6 months ago in p...

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 15.07.2019

The FinTech Alma Aims for Small Merchants

FACTS The French FinTech Alma was founded earlier this year by Stripe’s former DG Italy, Louis Chatriot. They just raised €3.3 million to boost their development.

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 11.07.2019

Wirecard and Shopee Add Instalment Payment Option

FACTS The German FinTech Wirecard teams up with Shopee –a leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan– enabling then to feature instalment options for their customers.

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• Payment
• 10.07.2019

Visa Acquires the Californian FinTech Verifi

FACTS The US card scheme Visa buys out Verifi, a Californian company providing payment dispute resolution technologies.

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