Interview: Pavel Novak, Zonky – a fintech fable
Zonky’s helpful community in the Czech Republic and which country the P2P lending firm might target next.
Czech Republic
Moneta first Czech bank in cloud
Tested prototype of app deployment in Amazon Web Services cloud.
Czech bank Moneta to acquire Home Credit for €767m
Will get its hands on consumer finance provider and retail challenger bank.
P2P investor Bondster implements Leveris’ core banking tech
Bondster Marketplace in the Czech Republic has implemented Leveris’ core processing platform.
ING Czechs out FICO for lending programme
ING will use decision management software and predictive models from analytic software firm FICO to launch its unsecured lending programme in the Czech Republic. The bank will use one retail banking platform, which will have FICO Blaze Advisor decision management rules system as its “risk brain”, making “fast, consistent, analytically guided” credit risk decisions on […]
Wirecard Czechs out O2 for mPOS action
Wirecard is working with O2 Czech Republic to offer a unified payments solution to retailers in the country. O2, as the “largest” telecom provider in the Czech Republic, will offer merchants “eKasa” – an online tablet-based fiscal till system together with credit card payment transaction services. This year, a new till system law has been […]
SIA and ČSOB launch “first” NFC mobile wallet in Czech Republic
Czech bank ČSOB and Italian payments firm SIA have launched the first mobile wallet for NFC payments in the Czech Republic. The new app, NaNákupy (literally “go shopping”), supports both MasterCard and Visa, and enables ČSOB’s customers to make contactless payments by smartphone. Petr Hutla, member of the ČSOB board of directors in charge of […]
