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The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is to begin piloting a digital wallet that will enable users to make instant person-to-person (P2P) payments in Germany and France as a first step towards rolling out a unified payment system that will support “a comprehensive range of transaction types” across Europe... More
Société Générale customers with a business account in Morocco can now apply for a biometric bank card that enables them to authorise contactless payments of any amount with their fingerprint rather than using a PIN or any other form of authorisation... More
Sixteen major European banks have announced plans to jointly create a new company that will be tasked with delivering “a seamless, competitive and unified payment solution” for in-store, online and P2P payments across Europe... More
Societe Generale brings personalized credit and debit cards to Apple Pay — Societe Generale — “Societe Generale offers over 180 personalised physical cards, but this marks the first time customers will see the exact same card as they have in their wallet in Apple Pay. ‘With Apple Pay’s personalisation mirroring our cards’ personalisation, we are demonstrating continuity between our digital and our physical products,’ said Julien Claudon, head of card and digital payment.”
Societe Generale is testing the idea of issuing bank cards that incorporate a built-in fingerprint verification sensor with the aim of using the added security the cards provide to allow customers to make contactless payments “with no limit on the amount.”... More
Société Générale and Idemia revolutionize remote account opening — Idemia — “For the first time in France, a bank offers new clients to open accounts remotely without a mandatory transfer, by using Idemia’s facial biometric recognition technology, with a dynamic selfie in order to identify the future client.”
Paylib wants to become France’s Swiss Army payment knife — Les Echos (translation) — “Following the introduction of online and in-store payments, customers of the six partner banks will be able to make person-to-person money transfers by the summer. BNP Paribas launched the new ‘Paylib entre amis’ [Paylib between friends] service last Wednesday while Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, BPCE, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole and La Banque Postale will follow in the coming weeks.”
Société Générale launches Yup, a new alternative to the traditional banking model in Africa — Société Générale — “Based on an agency banking model, ie a network of third-party agents with whom the bank has formed partnerships (service stations, distribution trade, etc), Yup is accessible via an expanded network of distributors equipped with adapted terminals and, of course, via the mobile banking app of Société Générale’s different banks throughout Africa.”
French bank Societe Generale is to offer retail customers in France the chance to replace their current Visa cards with ones featuring a dynamic security code developed by Oberthur Technologies... More
BNP Paribas, Groupe BPCE, La Banque Postale and Société Générale have begun piloting HCE mobile payment services with Visa Europe and payment and transaction services provider Worldline... More
French banking group Société Générale is to introduce an NFC payments service in the city of Strasbourg this autumn... More
French banking group Société Générale is now offering an NFC payments service to customers in the city of Strasbourg and plans to roll out the service nationwide, using a TSM platform provided by Oberthur Technologies... More
Orange Romania and BRD, part of France-based banking group Société Générale, have launched an NFC payments pilot... More
The French bank has chosen Oberthur to act as its trusted service manager for a rollout of NFC payments services this year. More
France’s mobile network operators have formally committed to deploying one million NFC phones in 2011, under the Cityzi brand name... More
France’s mobile network operators and banks, along with Visa and MasterCard, the local transport operator, the city council and others will take part in Europe’s first pre-commercial NFC pilot — which will be identified by the new Cityzi brand. More
Following extensive field testing, the banks and mobile operators behind the NFC tests in Caen and Strasbourg have now published the functional and technical specifications for Payez Mobile applications. More