Tagged: lydia

December 19, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lydia, a mobile banking application, has partnered with insurtech Qover to introduce a seamless travel insurance experience. This offering is exclusively available “to Lydia’s premium cardholders, known as Black+ users, in Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain.” Qover’s embedded insurance orchestration platform is at the heart… Read More

December 9, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After introducing its 100% mobile trading solution two weeks ago, Lydia has announced that it secured $100 million in capital. Lydia‘s investment round is led by existing investors (Accel, Founders Future and Tencent), who are taking the opportunity to “renew their confidence in the company’s… Read More

November 26, 2021 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Austrian Fintech firm Bitpanda and France’s mobile financial services Super-App provider, Lydia, are teaming up to provide Lydia’s 5.5 million clients with access to investing in crypto-assets. Lydia will reportedly be using Bitpanda’s white-label solution, which is an API-powered infrastructure that allows Fintech platforms and… Read More

December 18, 2020 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French mobile payments firm Lydia has extended its Series B investment round, raising an additional $86 million in capital led by Accel. Lydia’s total Series B funding currently stands at €131 million, which reportedly makes it the largest round ever closed by a French Fintech… Read More

October 15, 2020 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French Paytech firm Lydia has teamed up with Tink in order to enable Open Banking connectivity. Lydia’s mobile payment app will be using Tink’s open banking tech to access PSD2 APIs across Europe. Tink and Lydia will be working cooperatively to improve bank account connectivity… Read More

January 16, 2020 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lydia, a France-based mobile payments firm, has acquired €40 million (appr. $44.6 million) in funding via a Series B investment round led by Chinese internet giant Tencent. Open CNP, XAnge and New Alpha also took part in the round. Established in 2013, the Lydia peer-to-peer… Read More

December 11, 2018 @ 3:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lydia, the French mobile payments firm, announced on Tuesday it is now offering Google Pay to all its Android users. The new service will allow users to contactless pay for their items. As previously reported, Lydia was launched in 2013 and claims it has become an “essential” app… Read More

February 17, 2018 @ 7:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lydia, the French mobile payments firm, announced this week it has raised €13 million through its latest funding round, which was led by CNP Assurances with participation from XAnge, New Alpha AM, Oddo BHF and Groupe Duval. The company reported it plans to use the latest funds… Read More