Veille FinTech (25 janvier 2015)
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Fintech Fundings: 13 Companies Raise Nearly $400 Million This Week
« The majority of the cash ($322 million or 82%) went to Finovate alums including KreditTech ($200 million), Coinbase ($75 million including money from two retail banks, USAA and BBVA), Motif Investing ($40 million from China), True Link ($3.4 million), and Kofax ($1.9 million). »
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Paiement par NFC : 57% des Français le trouvent inutile
« Un sondage montre une nouvelle fois que la majorité des Français se désintéresse du paiement sans contact et le considère inutile. »
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Payment security tops retailer priorities
« More than 63% of US retailers have included payment security among their top three priorities for 2015 in a survey by Boston Retail Partners, with 650% more retailers planning to support EMV by October. «
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Banque populaire lance son application bancaire pour montre connectée
« Banque populaire lancera, au cours du premier trimestre 2015, la première application bancaire pour montres connectées destinée aux chefs d’entreprise. «
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Crowdfunding : Groupama Banque va prêter 100 millions d'euros aux PME sur Unilend
« La plateforme de financement participatif Unilend vient d’annoncer un partenariat avec Groupama Banque. L’établissement bancaire prévoit de prêter 100 millions d’euros sur 4 ans à des TPE et PME françaises. »
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Nouvel essai de co-innovation à BNP Paribas
« L’ouverture de la page Facebook « BNP Paribas Ideas » vient aujourd’hui fédérer les quelques initiatives de la banque verte, auparavant dispersées. »
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« Judo Payments, Europe’s only mobile-first payments platform, today announces it has successfully closed an additional £6M in funding to drive growth in the rapidly expanding mobile commerce sector. »
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Vodacom to deploy M-Pesa linked prepaid EMV cards
« Gemalto announces the deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa. »
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Groupama Banque parie sur le crowdfunding
« En devenant la première institution française à adopter ce modèle à grande échelle (avec la jeune pousse Unilend), Groupama Banque renforce aujourd’hui cette tendance dans l’hexagone. »
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Financial sector must improve cyber defences – BofE
« Britain’s banks must do more to protect themselves from cyber attacks, says the Bank of England, following an analysis of the perimeter defences and operational resilience of 36 of the nation’s top financial service providers. »
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11% of Android banking apps ‘suspicious’
« More than 11% of Android banking and finance-related apps contain malware or suspicious binaries, according to research from RiskIQ. »
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Market data app investr lands in Amazon Appstore
« invstr, the free app that provides on-demand access to leading financial news and live market investor sentiment, launches on the Amazon Appstore for Amazon and Blackberry devices. »
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Bitcoin Startup Coinbase Raises $75 Million From DFJ, the NYSE and Two Banks
« Coinbase, a software company that allows people to buy bitcoin and enables businesses to accept it as payment, has closed a giant $75 million investment. In real U.S. dollars. »
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Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard
« Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet. According to people familiar with the situation, the search giant and maker of Android is interested in buying Softcard, the mobile payments company formerly known as Isis. »
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Voice, Facial Recognition Coming To USAA Mobile Log-In
« Biometric authentication apps for financial apps are expected to be all the rage by 2019, and USAA wants to be part of the trend. »
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LendingRobot Scores $3M To Automate Investing On P2P Lending Platforms Lending Club And Prosper
« The successful IPO of Lending Club is testament to the growth of P2P online lending, a market that is said to be doubling every year as borrowers seek an alternative to the banks and other traditional lenders, and in turn investors look for a better return on their money. »
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Marc Barbezat
Veilleur et spécialiste en cybersécurité
