La veille FinTech (13 nov 2016) – La MAS s’offre des APIs, Tesco Bank se fait braquer et Siri fait ses paiements via paypal
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NetGuardians wins Aurexia Fintech Award
« The Lausanne based fintech startup NetGuardians, recognized for its unique approach to fraud and risk assurance solutions, received the Aurexia Fintech award last week in London. NetGuardians received a cash prize of GBP 5’000. »
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Kenya : le mobile draine désormais 90% des prêts bancaires !
« Le principal canal utilisé par les institutions financières au Kenya pour accorder des prêts aux clients est le téléphone mobile. 90% des prêts au Kenya sont accordés par ce moyen et les banques commerciales kényanes mettent désormais le cap sur 100% des prêts qui seront proposés aux clients. »
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Natixis (groupe BPCE) investit dans PayPlug et se réorganise autour de ses Fintech
« Natixis, la banque internationale de services financiers du groupe BCPE, est entré en négociations exclusives pour le rachat de PayPlug, la start-up qui développe une solution de paiement dématérialisée. »
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By 2020 Fraud is Expected to have Resulted in Losses of £28,5 billion
« Card fraud has increased 19% year on year, according to The Nilson Report, accounting for losses of around $16.3 billion last year, in 2015. France has seen an 8.9% increase in card fraud and the USA, which has the largest fraud/loss ratio, currently accounts for 47.3% of the world’s payment card fraud losses »
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R3 partners Singapore’s MAS for blockchain lab
« Distributed ledger technology consortium R3 has teamed up with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to open a centre of excellence on the island »
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Contactless card payments becoming ‘second-nature’ to EU consumers
« Consumer confidence in and acceptance of contactless payments is outstripping card issuance and merchant acceptance points in Europe. At the end of 2015, there were 346 million contactless cards in the region, up 41% from a year before »
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Apple Pay’s Australian travails eased by Cuscal deal
« In the face of fierce resistance from some of Australia’s biggest banks, Apple’s attempts to gain a foothold in the country for its mobile payment service has received a significant boost from payments processor Cuscal, which says that 31 of its banking members will soon be able to access the service »
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Citi to launch own-branded digital wallet
« Citibank is taking a leaf out of rival Chase’s playbook with the launch of a closed loop mobile wallet dubbed Citi Pay. »
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BofE uses accelerator to gain real-world fintech experience
« The Bank of England is using its new fintech accelerator to work with startups on developing proof-of-concepts (POCs) in data analytics, information security and distributed ledgers. »
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Monetary Authority of Singapore issues first set of data APIs
« The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that it is publishing 12 sets of data from MAS’ Monthly Statistical Bulletin as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on the MAS website. »
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Thailand’s KBank and IBM team on blockchain project
« Thailand’s Kasikornbank Public Company Limited (KBank), has enlisted IBM to help it build a blockchain network designed to reduce complexity in its corporate credit business. »
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« Today it is another significant milestone for the UK FinTech ecosystem as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) signed the Co-operation Agreement with the People’s Bank of China. »
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Postfinance: Online-Hypotheken mit einem Kniff
« Zusammen mit einem Schweizer Fintech-Startup bietet die Postfinance nun ebenfalls Online-Hypotheken an. Dabei muss die Post-Tochter sich eines Kniffs behelfen, um ein altes Handicap zu überwinden. »
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Intesa Sanpaolo sends PIN codes to customers via digital channels
« Italy’s largest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, is working with Gemalto to deliver PIN codes to customers via SMS, web and mobile banking app. »
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Hey, Siri! Send some money via PayPal
« “Simply say, ‘Hey Siri, send Bill $50 using PayPal’. Voila! One less thing to check off the to-do list this holiday season.” PayPal predicts more than 17 million P2P transactions in December this year. »
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Fintech start-ups in Europe to get up to €1.6bn in funding from EIF
« The European Commission (EC) has pledged up to €400 million to the European Investment Fund’s (EIF) new fund-of-funds – for the money to be spent on start-ups in Europe, including in the fintech space. »
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R3 and ten member banks develop KYC service proof-of-concept
« The R3 consortium and ten of its member banks have developed a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a know your customer (KYC) registry “that addresses the challenges associated with satisfying KYC requirements and allows identities to be managed by their owners”. »
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Alipay on Track for $16 Billion+ in Transactions on #SinglesDay
« During the first two hours of the annual 11/11 Global Shopping Festival, or Single’s Day as it is more commonly known, the Alibaba Group generated just about $7 billion USD of GMV within the first two hours of the holiday. »
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Votre banque a-t-elle été visée par des pirates informatiques ?
« La banque Tesco n’est pas la seule à avoir été visée par une attaque cybercriminelle le week-end des 5 et 6 novembre. Plusieurs autres établissements financiers ont vu leurs serveurs infectés par le même logiciel malveillant. «
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Tesco Bank, un cyber hold-up de 2,5 millions de livres
« La société britannique vient de donner des nouvelles plus précises sur ce cyber hold-up. Les cyber-voleurs ont réussi à détourner 2,5 millions de livres sterling soit 2,8 millions euros provenant de 9000 comptes clients. »
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Marc Barbezat
Veilleur et spécialiste en cybersécurité
