Search Results for: Open Finance

April 26, 2025 @ 3:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In an era where financial connectivity is becoming increasingly important, Plaid is positioning itself as a key player in delivering more reliable, scalable solutions for Open Finance. Through technical innovation, automation, and partnerships, Plaid is  addressing today’s integration challenges and is also focused on laying… Read More

April 18, 2025 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belvo has reportedly secured $15 million in new round of funding to power the next phase of Open Finance growth in Latin America. The investment round included participation from new investors Quona Capital and existing ones Kaszek, Kibo Ventures, Future Positive, Citi Ventures, and Y… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Konsentus announced that Konsentus’ European trusted data, Konsentus Verify, can now be accessed through an online portal, via a real-time API or a downloadable cache. Financial Institutions in the European Economic Area (EEA) can choose the delivery mechanism that best works for them. For open… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 6:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid partners with financial institutions to simplify the transition to open banking by providing secure, scalable API solutions that enable seamless data sharing. By collaborating closely with financial institutions, Plaid aims to help “ensure compliance with regulatory standards and modernization of infrastructure for data connectivity.”… Read More

August 5, 2024 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klickl, the Middle East’s Web3 open finance platform, has partnered with Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification platform, to meet stringent regulatory requirements for cryptocurrencies and improve user identity verification. This collaboration enhances Klickl’s compliance, fraud prevention, and user asset security. Sumsub will integrate comprehensive KYC… Read More

April 10, 2024 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

While the number of users benefiting from Open Banking continues to increase worldwide, there is a divergence between the concept of Open Banking and Open Finance – at least according to Salt Edge. Salt Edge is an open banking platform that provides services interested in… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 11:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid says that it has led the industry shift away from screen scraping, with the majority of their traffic now “on or committed to APIs.” Plaid are pleased to see regulators “reaffirm the industry’s adoption of this new technology.” At the same time, the open… Read More

December 30, 2023 @ 2:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over the past decade, a strong foundation of consumer financial data rights have underpinned an open finance ecosystem “that drives competition, choice, and inclusion for hundreds of millions of people today.” This, according to an extensive update from Plaid. Plaid noted in a blog post… Read More

November 21, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research unveiled recently the 10 trends that are set to radically impact the fintech and payments landscape in 2024, included within its latest whitepaper. The whitepaper found that “the fintech market is undergoing a rapid shift, with the rise of new technologies, such as… Read More

October 12, 2023 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has taken a significant step towards modernizing the financial services landscape in the Kingdom by unveiling comprehensive guidelines for Open Finance services. These guidelines apply to all banks operating “within the jurisdiction of CBJ, as well as online payment… Read More

September 23, 2023 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, has just completed one year of its adherence to Open Finance (a system that allows customer data sharing among financial institutions with consent) and is “positively impacting its customers’ financial… Read More

August 29, 2023 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Fintech Plaid are pleased to have Cecilia Frew join the open banking provider as their Head of Open Finance. As the industry comes together to establish data connectivity standards and embrace digital finance, Plaid’s relationship with financial institutions “continues to evolve.” Today,… Read More

July 9, 2023 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moneyhub, the data and payments platform built on the principles of Open Banking and Open Finance, has announced a partnership with MX Technologies, Inc., which claims to be a leader in Open Finance in North America. This partnership enables Moneyhub and MX “to leverage each… Read More

June 2, 2023 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has partnered with Moneyhub, the open finance data and payments fintech, “to enhance its digital app and dashboard, rolling out its own open finance powered tool, Money Mindset, to its existing 1.5 million workplace pension scheme members.” The addition… Read More

May 17, 2023 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fabrick, a European leader in ‘Open Finance’, announces today the acquisition of Judopay, a UK-based mobile payments company. This deal will allow Fabrick’s Payment Orchestra “to benefit from Judopay’s innovation expertise in digital commerce.” Together, they will “define new models and standards to provide smoother… Read More

May 14, 2023 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rapyd has announced a partnership with Belvo, the Open Finance data and payments platform in Latin America. By combining Rapyd’s extensive global payments network with Belvo’s expertise in open banking, the partnership will “enable businesses across Latin America to deliver seamless open finance experiences to… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MX, which claims to be an industry leader in Open Finance, announced that Data Access, formerly MXaccess, is now “available for free to financial institutions and data providers.” Data Access enables financial institutions and other data providers “to help consumers connect to all the financial… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 11:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open finance firm Brankas has announced a new integration that will allow MPT DriveHub app users in the Philippines to reload using their active Philippine bank accounts. MPT DriveHub users can now “choose from a wider range of reloading options as they top up their… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open finance platform Brankas has announced a new feature enabling instant bank account opening as an “embedded finance” experience on third-party applications. The API is the “first” of its kind in the region, “launched first in Indonesia and the Philippines.” As a bundle with Brankas’… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Purpose-driven fintech Mission Lane announced it is expanding its partnership with the data network Plaid in order “to bring secure open finance solutions to its two million-plus customers.” The expanded partnership “leverages Plaid’s innovative open finance API data connectivity solution, which allows customers to securely… Read More