December 2022 Embedded Finance News
This edition includes news about Griffin, Metro and Walmart as well as insightful reads about EF strategy, Starbucks and Social Commerce.
Lars Markull
January 02, 2023
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
🇺🇸 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
Insightful reads
♟️ Four Embedded Finance Strategies for Incumbents
📈 Embedded lending market to exceed USD 32.5 bln by 2032
☕️ The Bank with a Bean Licence - a deep dive into Starbucks' Fintech menu
🏛️ How Does Embedded Finance Regulation Vary Worldwide?
🔌 Why plug-and-play should be the new standard for embedded finance
🛍 Why Embedded Finance Could Transform Social Commerce️
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