• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 18.09.2018

UnionPay Cards Launched in the UK

The card scheme China UnionPay issues roughly 7 billion cards in 48 countries, and is making further progress in Europe. They will soon be landing in the UK where they will directly challenge the leading schemes Visa and Mastercard on one of their ma...

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• Credit
• Innovation
• 06.08.2018

MobiKwik Adds In-App Instant Loans Applications

The Indian m-payment service provider MobiKwik, introduces an instant credit option for amounts up to INR 5,000 in partnership with the financial company Bajaj Finserv. This credit application feature is available in-app and has been designed for new...

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• Payment
• Distribution Channel – Mobile
• 12.07.2018

Carving Labs Bets on the Emerging Market for Mobile Wallets

The French mobile marketing start-up Carving Labs announces a funding round, and rebrands to “Captain Wallet”. This roundtable won support from investors encouraged by conclusive results and recent launch of their mobile wallet.

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• Mobility
• Payment
• 04.06.2018

Hyundai and Xevo Partner for In-Car Payments

The global leader in data-based user experience for the automotive industry Xevo and Korean company Hyundai announced an agreement on enabling car drivers to make payments directly from their car’s dashboard. After they set up their marketplace in Ge...

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• Payment
• Players’ Strategy
• 23.01.2018

Ledger’s Growth Potential Confirmed

The French start-up Ledger is famous for their storage devices for securing virtual currencies. They are now leading a 75 million dollars Series C roundtable with venture capital funds including Korelya Capital and Draper Ventures. This investment sh...

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• Payment
• 02.11.2016

ADN’co Payments Insight – October 2016

Players’ strategy – Alibaba’s European ambitions confirmed FRANCE – Banque Edel (E.Leclerc group) supports Ant Financial, and will be proposing Alipay‘s acceptance to their merchant customers: another step towards growing global for this mobile...

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• Payment
• 01.07.2015

ADN’co Payments Insight – June 2015

SEPAmail launched in July FRANCE –– As of this July, French banks will be enabling companies to rely on SEPAmail to settle their bills. This announcement is further stressed by the imminent addition of La Banque Postale to its list of sharehold...

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• 26.09.2012

M-wallet: Billguard Adds PFM Tools to Apple’s Passbook

Apple’s Passbook is about to include Billguard to its list of partners. The fraud detection tool will then be added to the already available loyalty offers. Billguard’s option, called The Business Platinium, is free and provides its users...

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• Payment
• 20.09.2011

Google Wallet Officially Launched

On 26 September 2011, Google officially launched its contactless payment solution for Samsung’s Nexus S 4G, in Android, Google Wallet. In order to have this initiative completed it partnered with Citibank. Payments can be made by taping th...

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