Caroline Soutarson

Head of the “Mind Fintech” section

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Journaliste chez mind Fintech depuis janvier 2021, je suis en charge de sa rubrique Investissement depuis 2025. Je couvre notamment les sujets liés aux néocourtiers de l'investissement, aux wealthtech, aux cryptoactifs, à l'Investment-as-a-Service mais aussi les néobanques vertes (enfin, ce qu'il en reste), les initiatives des Big Tech dans les services financiers ou encore, le régime pilote DLT.
Faits notables : j'aime étoffer mes articles de dataviz, ajouter des espaces insécables et connais le nom des tous les PSAN enregistrés auprès de l'AMF. Malheureusement, cet atout n'aura plus aucun intérêt passé juin 2026 (tout comme leurs autorisations).

Latest articles by Caroline Soutarson

With stablecoins, Walmart, Amazon, and Shopify want to break free from traditional banking channels

In the US, payment disintermediation continues. Walmart (2024 revenue: US$681 billion, including approximately US$100 billion online) and Amazon (2024 revenue: US$638 billion) are considering...

17 June 2025

Cyber insurance: Stoïk sets course for Spain

Three months after raising €25 million, cyber-insurance specialist Stoïk is setting up operations in Spain. Already selling in France (since 2021), Germany (2023), Monaco and Austria...

23 January 2025

Casino subsidiary suspends stablecoin issuance

“As part of the entry into force of the European MiCA regulation (June 30, editor note) and in accordance with its compliance commitment, Lugh, issuer of the stablecoin euro, announces the...

7 June 2024

Retail media: PayPal creates an advertising division headed by an ex-Uber

PayPal (427 million active accounts in Q1 2024, for 6.5 billion transactions) is to launch an advertising sales platform, PayPal Ads. Based on users’ transactional and behavioural data...

31 May 2024

BoursoBank launches a retail media offer

On May 15, 2024, in France, BoursoBank (6.3 million customers) gave an initial assessment of a “VIP” (Very Important Partners) retail media offer, rolled out at the beginning of the...

22 May 2024

Ikea buys Ikano Bank

Swedish retailer Ikea, which offers fractional payment (BNPL) and consumer credit services, could soon be expanding a range of financial services. The parent company Ingka Group (total sales of...

4 April 2024

BNPL: Affirm and Klarna cope with rising interest rates

With sales of US$497 million in the quarter to September 2023 (up by 37% year-on-year), US BNPL specialist Affirm reported revenue of US$50 million, exceeding analysts’ consensus, reported...

23 November 2023

Tap To Pay: Apple shakes up the offline POS market

Following Google for Android, Apple's Tap to Pay functionality (already live in the U.S.A., Australia, the U.K. and the Netherlands) is now coming to France. By transforming salespeople's iPhones...

16 November 2023

Pierre Fougeat, Lugh (Casino Group): “All platforms combined, €2.5 million of our stablecoin Lugh are in circulation”

Pierre Fougeat, COO of Lugh Financial Services, a subsidiary of Casino Group, presents the Euro stablecoin Lugh. He details the strategy behind this new business.

22 September 2023

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Shoprite adopts Yoobic solution for 3,600 stores and 160,000 employees

As announced in April in mind Retail, the African grocery retailer Shoprite has confirmed the rollout of the Yoobic application to optimise staff task management and anomaly detection in stores...

29 October 2025

Faced with debt and declining sales, Fossil files for bankruptcy

Competition from Apple and Samsung in the smartwatch segment, collapsing sales, customs tariffs… Cornered with a debt of US$179 million, Fossil has filed several bankruptcy petitions in the U.S.A...

29 October 2025

EU: Omnibus bill stalled in Parliament

On October 22, MEPs rejected by a narrow majority the negotiating mandate that would have allowed trilogue negotiations to begin on the omnibus directive watering down the CSRD and duty of care...

27 October 2025

Verizon, Starbucks, DoorDash and Grubhub impacted by AWS outage

On October 20, 2025, the Amazon Web Services cloud (Amazon Q2 2025 revenue: 168 billion dollars, up by 13.3%) was down for several hours before returning to normal. Numerous websites and...

27 October 2025

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Patrick Chalhoub, CEO Chalhoub Group : ”Shopping in the Middle East is a matter of entertainment rather than just buying”

The Dubai-based Chalhoub operates and grows the retail businesses of international retailers in the Middle East. Specialising in high-end fashion and beauty brands, it does not publish turnover...

22 October 2014

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“AT JOHN LEWIS, EVERY PARTNER RECEIVES THE SAME PERCENTAGE OF BONUS, FROM THE CEO TO THE STORE HANDLER.”

Whilst profit slides at Tesco and Debenhams, John Lewis Partnership’s sales have been growing for 6 years through a strategy focusing on the U.K. home market. Sophie Baqué met Andy Street...

22 November 2014

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Nicolas Siriez, DG L’Occitane : “L’Occitane vend la Méditerranée au monde entier”

Avec son pari de la nature et du haut de gamme, L’Occitane a réussi son internationalisation. Plus de 90 % des ventes viennent de l’étranger, dont 40 % d’Asie. Rencontre avec Nicolas Siriez...

20 October 2015

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HIGH END BEAUTY RETAILER L’OCCITANE PINS GROWTH ON NATURAL PRODUCTS

In 1995, the beauty retailer L’Occitane was close to bankruptcy. By 2015 it turned into a global player with 92% of sales from foreign countries, including 40% from Asia. Global Retail News met...

20 October 2015

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IKEA-CENTRES RESTARTS EXPANSION IN RUSSIA

German Armin Michaely, aged 54, has managed Ikea-Centres Russia since March 2013. After 22 years at the German office, he has restarted mall expansion in Russia, which previously stopped in 2012...

15 December 2015