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02.04.2019

ADN'co Credit Insight, March 2019: Instalment Options Making Progress In-Store and Online

Credit – Instalment Options Making Progress In-Store and Online UNITED STATES – JPMorgan Chase expands their range of in-store lending offers with two new services for their credit cardholders, My Chase Plan and My Chase Loan. UNITED ST...

Payment
03.01.2020

ADN’co Payments Insight – December 2019

Cards – The Rise of Eco-Friendly Payment Cards EUROPE – Bunq launches an eco-friendly payment card. Read more FINLAND – Enfuce tracks day-to-day expenses’ carbon emissions. Read more UNITED STATES – Mastercard and Doconomy let customers...

Payment
26.11.2019

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.

Payment
04.12.2019

Bunq Unveils an Environmentally Conscious Card

FACTS The Dutch neo-bank Bunq introduces a new card offer called Green Card.

Credit
02.05.2019

Credit News in Brief - April 2019

INSTALMENTS – Finfrog Partners With Deliveroo The P2P micro-lending FinTech Finfrog joins Deliveroo programme to support their delivery teams through financing and managing their projects. Amount of the loans: from €200 to €600, to be p...

Payment
03.01.2020

Payments News in Brief – December 2019

Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Monese lets their UK customers open joint accounts and starts featuring joint accounts in euros for EEA customers, too. Instant EUR to GBP transfers between Monese accounts will not be charged. FRANCE – The...

Credit
20.01.2020

Credit: Koto Enters the UK with a Mobile-First Offer

FACTS A new FinTech, Koto, gets ready to enter the UK with what they call a “Stress-free Credit” service.

Payment
20.01.2020

Blink Turning Taxis into ATMs

FACTS The advertising agency Ogilvy launches Blink, a start-up aiming at turning 70,000 Bolivian taxis into a mobile network.

Retail Banking
17.01.2020

Hello Bank! Offer Renewed with Paid Service

FACTS Hello Bank! will soon be launching two new banking offers. Their goal: further diversify their set of services and focus on an affinity-based approach.

Distribution Channel – Internet
17.01.2020

A Banking Institution Selling Insurance Policies via a Chatbot

FACTS The Portuguese institution Banco Best teams up the insurance group Simplesurance (featuring affinity-based, connected services) and lets their customers subscribe smartphone insurance offers through a chatbot.

Payment
FinTech
16.01.2020

Lydia Announces another Funding Round, Attracts Tencent

FACTS The Paris-based mobile payment FinTech Lydia announces a €40 million financing round.

Payment
15.01.2020

Libeo and QuickBooks Addressing Accounting and Payments Industries

FACTS Intuit, subsidiary of the US group Quickbooks, software vendor and service provider specialising in SME’s management activities, and the BtoB payment platform, Libeo, announced a strategic partnership.

Payment
14.01.2020

FinTech: Visa Acquires Plaid

FACTS The US card scheme Visa announced they are acquiring the FinTech Plaid for $5.3 billion.

Mobility
14.01.2020

Electrolease: New Entrant on the Market for Full-Electric Long-Term Leasing for Businesses

FACTS Axialease (SWS group) –leasing company focusing on corporate equipment– unveils a new subsidiary specialising in long-term leasing offers applied to electric cars for corporate customers.

Payment
13.01.2020

Mastercard Unveils an AR App

FACTS At the CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Mastercard introduced an Augmented Reality app enabling cardholders to search through and have access to card-linked offers.

Payment
10.01.2020

Belgian Banks Joining Forces on Building Shared ATM Network

FACTS Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING and KBC Bank are joining forces to create a shared ATM network: a response to shared cash management issues faced by banks.

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