This week, MoneyVox invites you to celebrate the anniversary of a French industrial success: the smart card has in fact celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. In the rest of the week’s recap, an opportunity to find out everything about the 2024 energy check, explanations about your employee savings plan and the discovery of an innovation that will simplify the lives of those who make online payments .
The hope of the week: the end of the crisis for SCPIs?
A value of shares which continues to fall, with a blocking of sales and growing uncertainty for certain SCPIs. The returns of the two other major categories of real estate funds which have decreased, reaching around -7% in 2023 for OPCI and SCI, very popular with life insurance holders. Faced with this worrying situation in the once stable and profitable sector of real estate funds, should we be worried, or rather say that the crisis is passing? elements of response in this interview with Jean-Marc Coly, president of Aspim, the association bringing together all the managers of SCPI and other real estate funds.
Prices of SCPIs, life insurance real estate funds… Is the end of the crisis near?
The anniversary of the week: the smart card is celebrating its 50th anniversary!
Did you know? On March 25, 1974, the first smart card patent was filed. This French invention, which has become a global standard for payments as in many other sectors, is a particularly secure means of authentication, which partly explains its success. The smart card is deemed to be inviolable, it is a hyper-secure safe, explains Amaanie Hakim, vice-president in charge of innovation at IDEMIA Secure Transactions. To find out everything about the history of this card that we commonly call banking, click here.
Bank card: why the embossed numbers have (almost) disappeared
Innovation of the week: even easier online payments
The payment stage remains a weak point in online shopping, in terms of experience and security. Good news: a new one-click payment method is coming and has the potential to become a standard. As long as everyone plays the game. We’ll explain.
Romain DESIGNOLLE
Romain Designolle graduated from the CFPJ in 2017. After experiences in the field of Sports and local news for regional dailies… Read more
MoneyVox / RD / March 2024