Happy New Year! I hope you had a good start into 2023 and welcome to the second edition of Embedded Finance News. I was expecting December to be a quiet month but I was so wrong! See for yourself below.

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I have done a few changes compared to the first edition. Most importantly, I changed the structure and instead of splitting the type of news, I decided to split based on geographies. Initially, I was planning to add a personal comment to each news, but decided against it to keep a clean and easy to read structure.

Europe

🇬🇧 Contis retires its brand and becomes Solaris

🇬🇧 KodyPay taps Adyen to offer embedded finance for the hospitality sector

🇬🇧 Griffin hires chief product officer and general counsel

🇩🇪 Solaris shakes up management board as it strives for profitability

🇩🇪 METRO used BaaS to help their small business customers grow

🇩🇪 pay33 partners with Swan and launch mobility card with a payment function

🇸🇪 Zimpler launches pay-by-bank invoice link

🇮🇹 Italy’s biggest neobank inks lucrative deal with Italian postal service

🇳🇱 Mollie and Shieldpay collaborate on B2B payments

🇱🇺 Mangopay appoints Carlos Sanchez Arruti as CFO

North America

🇺🇸 Walmart fintech unit preps BNPL play

🇺🇸 Adam Neumann venture Flow picks Bond to power digital wallet

🇺🇸 Galileo releasees BNPL software for banks and fintechs and unveils direct deposit switch

🇺🇸 Mastercard teams with Marqeta on Instant Vendor Payments

🇺🇸 GlossGenius CEO answers 5 questions about Embedded Finance in SMB verticals

🇺🇸 Airwallex partners with TripActions for expenses

🇲🇽 MercadoLibre tests Business Payments on WhatsApp

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