Tagged: open banking

March 2, 2020 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tarabut Gateway, MENA region’s biggest Open Banking platform, will be conducting a series of six different Open Banking Interactive Workshops, which have been designed to help individual consumers, banks and Fintech firms learn more about the new policy.  The first workshop will be conducted this… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Featurespace, a firm that focuses on fraud prevention, confirmed on February 26 that Finland’s Enfuce, an open banking Fintech firm, will be using the Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub in order to protect its customers from online security threats. Established in 2016 by Denise Koskinen… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase, the world’s sixth-largest bank in terms of total assets, has reportedly sent a letter to several Fintech firms in which it cautioned that they will no longer be allowed to access customer data unless they accept the terms of a new data access… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 5:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian government passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Bill 2019 on February 10, 2020. The bill has been introduced in order to extend the overall scope and time period Fintech firms may spend on the country’s current framework. Updating the existing… Read More

February 11, 2020 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading UK-based digital bank Revolut has introduced a new Open Banking feature, which will allow users to view their bank accounts from other financial service providers from within the banking challenger’s app. Revolut partnered with financial API developer TrueLayer to allow all of its retail… Read More

February 8, 2020 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), an established multinational firm focused on offering financial services technology platforms, has released a whitepaper highlighting how financial institutions that employ a strategic approach to open banking can promote competitive differentiation, improved client experiences and faster growth. Financial institutions have to… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Open Banking means different things for different people – depending on the regulatory jurisdiction where you are standing. First championed by the UK, in brief, Open Banking can mean mandated APIs for financial services firms to facilitate interoperability and choice in a very secure manner…. Read More

January 22, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vive, a newly established UK-based digital bank, has reportedly acquired a banking license with certain restrictions from the Bank of England (BoE). The new digital bank aims to provide personal loans and a fixed-rate savings account. It will be launching with an Open Banking-based funds… Read More

January 20, 2020 @ 4:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tink, a Sweden-based fintech that provides APIs to create next-generation banking services, announced on Monday it secured €90 million through its latest investment round, which was co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital, and Insight Partners. The latest funding comes less than a year after Tink… Read More

January 20, 2020 @ 8:20 am By Timothy Li  |  

Part 4 of a series of articles covering the fast-emerging Fintech ecosystem in Latin America. During the inaugural FinnoSummit addressing innovations in financial services in Latin America (LatAm), the speaker and audiences settled on a big issue; infrastructure and digital transformation. Most of the Latin… Read More

December 31, 2019 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 40 Fintech companies operating as small and medium-sized (SMEs) businesses in South Korea reportedly were unable to clear the appropriate security checks needed to obtain final approval to take part in the open banking initiative. The Fintech companies had applied for operational licences in… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

We have all heard about Open Banking, a mandate to require proactive API access to financial services while migrating control of all data and access back to consumers, now we have a movement for “Open Finance.” According to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Open Finance… Read More

December 17, 2019 @ 9:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VoPay, a payment technology layer that allows companies to accept, collect and send online bank account payments like credit cards, has teamed up with Hydrogen, an American Fintech acceleration platform. Both companies aim to work cooperatively to provide end-to-end open banking payments. The partnership will… Read More

December 17, 2019 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Minna Technologies and Finland’s largest financial group, OP, have extended their partnership which was established last year during OP’s open banking startup partnership program. Minna Technologies was chosen last year to take part in OP’s open banking program. John Nyström, country manager Finland at Minna… Read More

November 26, 2019 @ 8:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Challenger bank Tandem has partnered with TrueLayer in a move to better connect Tandem’s 800,000+ customers to synchronize their accounts to both High Street and other challenger banks. Truelayer is described as Europe’s leading provider of financial APIs. The integration supports all major European banks… Read More

November 25, 2019 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s Senator Jane Hume has suggested that there’s significant potential for new international agreements to lead the nation’s Fintech companies into emerging financial markets. Hume pointed out that Australia’s present agreement with the UK to promote exports of Australia’s financial technology has not been used… Read More

November 9, 2019 @ 5:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore has been ranked number one in Asia and eighth worldwide when it comes to innovation and embracing the latest technologies. Singapore is also recognized as one of the world leaders in key sectors including Fintech,  engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, biomedical sciences, urban solutions and sustainability,… Read More

November 3, 2019 @ 7:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Big data is on the agenda for the House Financial Services Committee’s Task Force on Financial Technology. The Fintech Task Force will convene for a hearing entitled, “Banking on Your Data: the Role of Big Data in Financial Services.” The Fintech Task Force is relatively… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 7:00 pm By Nick Raper  |  

With the implementation of PSD2 in Europe, Open Banking payment solutions are starting to be rolled out across the UK and Europe. But while the core Open Banking payment solutions are live, there is a long way to go until we see the widespread adoption… Read More

October 30, 2019 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has utilized Open Banking APIs for the first time with a tie-in to Intuit QuickBooks, according to a note from Revolut. This will be the first time that Revolut has collaborated with a third-party provider to use the advanced functionality of UK… Read More