Lydia Solutions
| Joint-stock company | |
| ISIN | 🆔FR67534479589 |
| Founded 📆 | September 16th 2011 |
| Founder 👔 | Antoine Porte and Cyril Chiche |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Paris France |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Cyril Chiche (CEO) |
| Products 📟 | Lydia, Lydia Pro, Cagnotte.me |
| Members | |
Number of employees | Between 20 and 49 |
| 🌐 Website | https://lydia-app.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Lydia Solutions is a french company, created in 2011, specialised in the online payment by smartphone. It develops and runs the mobile app Lydia which allows its users to send and receive money for free and to pay in some shops and on different websites.
History[edit]
The company Lydia Solutions was created in September 2011 in the jurisdiction of the Commercial Court of Paris. The founders are Cyril Chiche and Antoine Porte, Cyril Chiche is the first president.[1],[2].
The Lydia application was launched in France in July 2013. Cyril Chiche, cofounder and general manager of Lydia Solutions, has the ambition to create a universal means of payment: ""There are around 300 payment methods in France, but none is universal in terms of usage. The payment methods are segmented by usage, with Lydia we want to recreate a universal payment method."[3]
In September 2015, Lydia has been was elected as one of the top 100 most exciting European startups by Wired.[4].
On March 8 2016, a partnership between Lydia and Tupperware France was unveiled, in order to substitute the bank cheque by Lydia during the Tupperware meeting.[5].
In September 2016, the company launches the Lydia card, an international MasterCard connected to the application[6],[7]. It also gives the possibility to exchange money in a conversation on Slack with the robot @LydiaBot (since April 2016)[8],[9] and to ask for money from Siri and iMessage (since November 2016).
In 2017, the application opens in Europe with deployments in Ireland (April), Spain (June), United Kingdom (July) and Portugal (September)[10]. Germany is scheduled for the end of the year[10].
In June 2017, the payment by the Lydia application is now accepted in 400 Franprix stores (not franchised), thanks to an alliance with the Casino Group[10],[11]. At the end of November 2017, Lydia becomes a method of payment on the online trading website Cdiscount, also owned by the Casino Group[12],[13].
The application becomes compatible with Apple Pay on December 5, 2017[14]. It is only from the end of June 2018 that the service will become compatible with Samsung Pay. In the same month, Lydia launches its offer for instant consumer credit (with Banque Casino as a partner)[15].
How to use the app[edit]
Between individuals[edit]
The app is design to be easily accessible. The user downloads the application for free on his mobile (with Android or iOS), creates his account and saves a credit card. He can then directly start paying online or between owners of the application Lydia without any fees[16].
If ever the user transfers money from his bank account to his Lydia account the possible amount is limited on the free version. But with the premium function this amount is no longer limited, this premium feature costs € 3.99 per month[17] unless the person is under 25 years old, age until this function is free.
By professionals[edit]
The application can also be used by professionals to receive payments from customers: they pay with their classic Lydia application while professionals cash with the application Lydia Pro. Initially restricted to the student community (cafeterias, evening receptions), the process extends thanks to partnerships with Tupperware[5] and Franprix[10],[11]. The customer types the amount he has to pay on his phone which then generates a QR code that the merchant scans with his terminal[18]. Online payment is also available and is being used by Cdiscount and Undiz as a result of partnerships[18].
Lydia charges a commission of 0.7 to 1.5% on all payments made[18].
Popularity of Lydia[edit]
According to the American magazine Wired, the application Lydia would have been downloaded more than 50,000 times in 2014[4] and 90,000 times in 2015[3] according to La Tribune.
Mid-2017 in France, the service had 900,000 users and 500,000 transactions were carried out each month[19]. At the end of 2017, the company claimed to have more than 1.4 million users (including 750,000 individuals) in the five countries where it currently operates (France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal). ) and showed its ambition to enter more European countries market[20]. About 40% of these users are active each month, generating just over a million transactions per month[21]
Notes and references[edit]
- ↑ "Lydia Solutions sur societe.com". societe.com.
- ↑ "Lydia va vous aider à régler vos achats". Le Parisien. 2013-08-14. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "La fintech Lydia veut créer un mode de paiement universel" (in français). La Tribune. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Joao Medeiros (30 July 2015). "Europe's hottest startups 2015: Paris". Wired magazine. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bodescot, Anne (2016-03-09). "Le paiement mobile s'impose aussi dans les réunions Tupperware". Le Figaro (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Gavois, Sébastien (2016-09-06). "Lydia lance sa carte de paiement MasterCard à 3,99 € par mois". Next INpact (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Bohic, Clément (2016-09-07). "Lydia lance une MasterCard dans le prolongement de son app mobile". ITespresso (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Bohic, Clément (2016-04-06). "Lydia s'invite dans Slack par bot interposé". ITespresso.fr (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Abdellah, Majda (2016-04-06). "L'application de paiement Lydia débarque sur Slack". Mashable avec France 24 (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Renaud, Ninon (29 June 2017). "Lydia veut s'imposer comme compte courant nouvelle génération". Les Échos (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-28.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Foucauld Hénin (2017-06-28). "Payer avec Lydia chez Franprix, c'est maintenant possible". Presse-Citron (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ↑ Keren Lentschner (2017-11-30). "Cdiscount a enfin trouvé la solution pour se faire payer au doigt et à l'œil". Le Figaro (in français). Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ↑ Sébastien Olland; Amélie Petitdemange (2017-11-20). "Antoine Porte (Lydia) : « Le marché du paiement mobile est gigantesque »". Les Échos Business (in français). Retrieved 2017-12-03.
- ↑ Stéphane Moussie (5 December 2017). "Apple Pay : Lydia et le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa (Fortuneo) compatibles aujourd'hui". iGeneration (in français). Retrieved 2017-12-20.
- ↑ "Lydia se lance dans le crédit à la consommation instantané avec Banque Casino". L'AGEFI. 12 December 2018.
- ↑ Claude Soula (10 January 2016). "Paiement mobile : Lydia, l'appli qui veut vous faire oublier le cash". L'Obs. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ↑ "Lydia lance Lydia Premium". Android et Vous (in français). 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Agathe Boussard; Boris Cassel (2018-01-30). "Paiement par smartphone : l'application Lydia cartonne auprès des jeunes". Le Parisien (in français). Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- ↑ Moreira, Enrique (2017-10-22). "Fintech : retour sur cinq success-stories à la française". Les Échos (in français). Retrieved 2017-10-25.
- ↑ Bilan 2017 et perspectives 2018 (in français). 31 January 2018. p. 2. Search this book on
- ↑ "C. Chiche : « L'ambition de Lydia est de devenir le PayPal de l'ère mobile »" (vidéo). business.lesechos.fr (in français). Retrieved 2018-03-13.
La part des utilisateurs actifs mensuels, c'est 40 % de cette base utilisateur, et ils font, aujourd’hui, un peu plus d'un million de transactions par mois. (Cyril Chiche)
External links[edit]
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