• Innovation
• Payment
• 11.06.2019

Decathlon Rolls Out “Scan, Pay, Leave” Cashierless Service

FACTS The French sporting goods retailer Decathlon rolls out a mobile self-checkout service across all their stores in the Netherlands. 

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 20.05.2019

Apple NFC Tag for Apple Pay Transactions

FACTS At this year’s TRANSACT conference in Las Vegas, Apple announced they are working on a new NFC feature.

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• Payment
• 10.04.2019

Paylib: Mobile-Based Instant Credit Transfer Going Mainstream

FACTS The seven largest banks in France just agreed to generalise P2P credit transfer through Paylib.

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• Prepaid Card
• Payment
• 19.03.2019

PayTrip Introduces a Prepaid Payment Card

FACTS PayTrip, the Orleans-based FinTech featuring an instant money transfer service, just launched a new prepaid card.

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• Loyalty
• Payment
• 12.03.2019

A Retail Property Company Bets on Apple and Google Apps for their Customer Loyalty Programme

FACTS Mercialys, retail property company owned by Casino Group and key player in managing shopping malls in France, has been focusing on dematerialising their loyalty programmes for months. They now bet on Web giant’s wallets to meet their goal...

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 24.01.2019

Natixis Aims for Merchants with Wynd

FACTS The French start-up Wynd announces a €72M funding round from several investors, and Natixis, subsidiary of BPCE, is taking a stake in this FinTech, too. This transaction also involves an industrial partnership between Natixis Payments and...

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• Loyalty
• Payment
• 18.12.2018

Crypto-Currencies: PayPal Rewards Employees with Tokens

FACTS The e-payment specialist PayPal introduces an internal Blockchain-based incentive for rewarding employees: tokens in exchange for contributing ideas and sending them through a dedicated platform for centralising innovative developments.

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• Payment
• 27.11.2018

Amazon Aims for Brick-and-Mortar Location to Boost Amazon Pay Wallet

Among contenders in the mobile payment race, the US e-commerce giant Amazon would be getting ready to challenge Apple via addressing offline payment transactions. Their wallet already leads the way in online payment contexts, and Amazon may now aim f...

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 27.09.2018

Securing Customer Loyalty: Vodafone Adds Financing Offers

In the UK, Vodafone, via their mobile offer for young customers, VOXI, announces a new partnership with PayPal. They will be provided interest-free credit offers for buying a smartphone. The point would be to make it easier for their customers to buy...

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• Payment
• 24.09.2018

Google Pay Soon to Launch in France

Google Pay was expected to launch early this year, at about the same time as Samsung Pay, but will eventually land in France this fall. Google Pay was launched in the beginning of 2018 in the US and in some other European countries (UK, Spain, Belgiu...

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