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Belfius Insurance Introduces an AI-Focused Start-Up for Assisting Elderly Customers
FACTS As 2019 ends, the Belgian group Belfius Insurance unveils a start-up called Jane in which they hold a majority stake.
VITAband Links Contactless Payment and Medical Record
U.S. Bank partners MasterCard to test MasterCard® PayPass™ VITAband®, a wristband combining contactless payment technology with emergency contact...
Visa Hiring Mobile Services Expert to Develop P2P Transfers
On 5 October, Visa announced having hired mobile payment specialist Gavin Krugel. This new move should provide for the development of a P2P funds...
In India, e-rupee soon accepted in department stores
Reliance Retail, one of India's largest retail chains, will allow its customers to pay in e-rupee, the central bank digital currency first in...
PayPal to introduce its own crypto-currency soon
PayPal has long been interested in crypto-currencies and a way for its group to position itself in this growing market. In the face of persistent...
Vodacom and Alipay launch a super-app in Africa
FACTS Africa's largest telecom operator, Vodacom, has announced the launch of a super-app embedding financial and lifestyle services in the...
Feedback: Soan raises €3.2 million to accelerate its development in the business-to-business payments market
Soan is a Bordeaux-based fintech created in 2018, covering the entire value chain of business-to-business payments via a SaaS subscription platfo...
ADN’co Payments Insight – August 2013
Addressing niche markets with prepaid UNITED STATES – the US start-up True Link launches a prepaid card for seniors and protected customers...
Cash Dispenser for Semiliterate Customers
NCR developed an ATM for semi-literate or illiterate customers. This automaton displays a biometric sensor, coloured buttons to enable withdrawal...
Crédit Agricole Running Tests on Biometric Payment Cards
FACTS Crédit Agricole announces a test phase on a contactless payment card embedding a fingerprint sensor for biometric authentication, wit...
Authentication: Natixis Testing Biometric Identification
The CNIL has just approved Natixis’s request to trial a biometric USB key letting its customers identify and sign their online transactions. This...
ADN’co Payments Insight – January 2014
Bitcoin still making the headlines UNITED STATES – SmartMetric unveils its Biometric Bitcoin Card: a card product with a biometric sensor t...
Mobile Security: Oberthur and AuthenTec Partnering on NFC
The French manufacturer Oberthur and the Austrlian security and identity solutions provider, AuthenTec, join forces to design a safer NFC UICC SI...
ADN’co Payments Insight – November 2019
Players’ Strategy – Major League Taking Action UNITED STATES – Google gest ready to launch a checking account. Read more UNITED STATES –...
News in Brief – September 2018
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – According to Bloomberg, Google and Mastercard would have entered a partnership last year on t...
News in Brief – August 2018
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – HiPay releases their results for H1 2018, reporting €13 million turnover (+12%) and €1.3 billion processed trans...
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...
ADN’co Payments Insight – October 2014
eBay and PayPal Splitting up UNITED STATES – PayPal’s spinoff from eBay is underway. The long-lasting rumour has been confirmed: PayPal wil...
ADN’co Payments Insight – March 2014
Paperless luncheon vouchers growing more tangible FRANCE – the market of luncheon vouchers is about to evolve: the decree authorising their...