• Credit
• Innovation
• Retail Banking
• 10.01.2019

Chetwood: a New Challenger Bank in the UK

FACTS The British FinTech Chetwood Financial launched in 2016 and, until recently, focused on consumer lending offers. They have just been granted a banking licence by British authorities.

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 09.01.2019

Klarna, Poq & Stripe Partner to Boost the M-Commerce Sector

Photo credits: Poq FACTS The British retailer Missguided announces they are opting for the Swedish FinTech Klarna, the SaaS platform Poq and the e-payment company Stripe to reshape their mobile app.

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 04.01.2019

Visa Acquires the British FinTech Earthport

FACTS Visa buys out the London-based payment firm Earthport –which focuses on cross-border payment systems– for £198 million (roughly €219 million).

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• Payment
• 03.01.2019

REX: Merchants Increasingly Convinced by Silkpay

FACTS The Paris-based start-up Silkpay was launched in July 2017 and features mobile payment services relying on Alipay and WeChat Pay.

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 21.12.2018

Sage Partners with GoCardless

FACTS The multinational enterprise software company Sage partners with GoCardless –British FinTech which specialises in dematerialising Direct Debit-based recurring payments.

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• Innovation
• Players’ Strategy
• 14.12.2018

REX: Ongoing Success for Qonto

FACTS The French neo-bank Qonto was launched in July 2017 and just reported €3 billion in processed transactions: this figure actually doubled in 5 months.

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• Payment Card
• Payment
• 14.12.2018

REX: Curve Cards Adoption Rates Grow Strong

FACTS The London-based FinTech Curve –famous for their real-time all-in-one cards– now claims 300,000 users (vs 50,000 18 months ago). Discussions would now be underway to raise $50 million.

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• Payment
• 13.12.2018

International Payments: SWIFT Pilots Pre-validation gpi Payments Service

FACTS The interbank messaging network tests a new solution for pre-validating SWIFT gpi international payment.

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 10.12.2018

One-Click Payment: Casino Teams Up with Natixis to Launch a Wallet

FACTS Just a few days after they announced they would be holding a 5% share in Lyf Pay, the retail group claims they have a partnership in place with Natixis Payments on crafting an e-wallet for Cdiscount.

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• Innovation
• Players’ Strategy
• FinTech
• 07.12.2018

REX: N26 Still Successful

FACTS At Disrupt Berlin, the German neo-bank N26 announced significant progress. The FinTech reports 2 million users in Europe compared to 1.5 million in October and 1 million in June.

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