• Payment
• 04.11.2019

Payments News in Brief – October 2019

Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – Active.Ai teams up with Visa to provide banking institutions with interactive AI-powered solutions (e.g.: conversational agents). Among considered features: balance checking via chatbot, travel notifications, n...

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• Innovation
• Players’ Strategy
• 29.10.2019

Fintonic Granted a Banking Licence

FACTS The aggregation platform for financial services Fintonic, FinTech focusing on scoring and consumer lending activities, has just been granted a banking licence.

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• Payment
• 29.10.2019

Real-Time Payment: Mastercard Leads the Way

FACTS The US card scheme unveils Payment on Delivery, a real-time payment solution for business customers.

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• Payment
• 22.10.2019

Arkéa Adds an Insurance Offer for Credit Transfer Payments

FACTS Arkéa expands their assistance and insurance services currently for card-based payments, to protect conventional and instant credit transfer-based payments, for free.

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• Payment
• 03.10.2019

Payments News in Brief – September 2019

Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube. They managed to attract 9 951 new shareholders (€6.6 million) in just 42 minutes. This move comes in add...

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• Payment
• 27.09.2019

Mastercard Launches Request to Pay

FACTS The US card giant just added another credit transfer-based product by Vocalink to their range of offers.

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• Payment
• 26.09.2019

Open Banking: American Express Unveils a Credit Transfer Solution

FACTS The American card scheme AmEx launches an e-payment solution enabling customers to pay directly from their bank account.

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• Payment
• 03.09.2019

News in Brief – August 2019

Players’ Strategy FRANCE – BNP Paribas observed a sharp increase in their number of active mobile users for Hello bank! As well as consistent growth for Nickel. They claim 4 million active mobile users all in all (+22% vs Q2 2018). The number o...

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• Payment
• 08.08.2019

Instant Payment: Mastercard Acquires Unit from Nets

FACTS The second largest global card scheme Mastercard buys out a majority stake in Corporate Services business unit from the Danish e-payment specialist Nets.

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• Payment
• 06.08.2019

News in Brief – July 2019

Players’ strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Yolt expands the ongoing test phase for their payment initiation service. They now aim for Nationwide, Santander and Barclays customers in the UK, as well. Yolt Pay Beta started being tested 6 months ago in p...

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