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...
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Players’ Strategy INDIA – As their mobile money transfer app keeps growing successful in India, Google is getting ready to implement this s...
The market for electric vehicles is expanding fast, leading charging stations to evolve. The German car maker Daimler keeps heading for this sect...
FACTS Oney, financial subsidiary of the retail group Auchan partners with the e-payment company Wirecard to roll out the Well.com mobile ap...
Global payment giant Worldline has just announced the acquisition of Online Payment Platform, a Dutch online payment service provider (PSP) offer...
FACTS The Dutch company AVUTEC manufacturing Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras, adds a payment feature for their ANPR.
Q-Park presents SMS4Parking for SMS-based car-park payments. The new system implemented in Saint-Mandé was designed in partnership with the integ...
South Korea has a reputation for being a country that is always at the forefront of innovation. It is proving this once again with the announceme...
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – The multi-currency transaction specialist iBanFirst launches an online exchange coverage service. This service d...
FACTS The aggregation platform for financial services Fintonic, FinTech focusing on scoring and consumer lending activities, has just been ...
Visa Europe strengthens its strategic partnership with Monitise. In 2009, Visa acquired a 14% stake in the mobile financial services specialist. ...
FACTS WeBank, digital bank by Tencent, introduces a new lending offer available from their video-streaming platform.
FACTS Even if they did seem like an “actual” bank, Revolut did not enjoy a banking status until recently: they have just been granted a ban...
Players’ strategy – Encouraging first steps for European neo-banks UNITED KINGDOM – Based on the banking licence which came with their purc...
PayTop (formerly Sencillo), granted PI licence in April 2011, announces having raised 2.1 million euros from Truffle Capital. The company operate...
The joint committee has reached a compromise on the legal framework that will apply to crypto players from 1 July 2023. They will now be required...
Credit transfer – Progress well underway in Benelux and Northern Europe BENELUX – Payconiq buys out Digicash: a way for them to keep consol...
Players’ strategies – FinTech companies following in banks’ footsteps EUROPE – Klarna has been granted a banking licence allowing them to l...
Soan is a Bordeaux-based fintech created in 2018, covering the entire value chain of business-to-business payments via a SaaS subscription platfo...
FACTS The P2P lending platform Zopa was granted a banking licence in the end of 2018. They now intend to take their strategy one step furth...
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Revolut applies for a banking licence in Luxembourg. This start-up has been granted EMI status in the UK and rel...