Tagged: apis

October 3, 2021 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eFounders-formed Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Fintech Swan has secured €16 million in funding via a Series A round that was led by Accel. Swan’s latest investment round has come about a year after the Fintech firm finalized its seed round. The company claims that it now has… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Heikki Vänttinen, Co-founder at API3,  a collaborative initiative focused on delivering traditional API services to smart contract platforms in a decentralized and “trust-minimized” manner. It’s governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), and its code is open-source and its operations… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PNC Bank (NYSE: PNC) and Akoya LLC have announced the banking institution’s integration with the Akoya Data Access Network. Over 9 million PNC clients are now enabled to “securely share their financial data with Fintechs and data aggregators with enhanced security through the application programming… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Modulr has now opened business offices in the Netherlands, which will serve as “the springboard for its EU-wide expansion in 2022 and 2023.” Following steady business growth in the United Kingdom during the last 5 years, Modulr is expanding rapidly, putting significant investment… Read More

September 9, 2021 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Apiture, a provider of virtual banking services, reveals that it has completed Live Oak Bank’s retail bank migration to Apiture Open. After the deployment of Live Oak Bank‘s business banking experience using Apiture Open last year, the banking institution had further expanded the relationship to… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra has announced a new partnership with Plaid in order to enable Fintech companies to embed automated bank transfers. The Astra team noted that they’re pleased to be working with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, in order to offer an integrated… Read More

August 19, 2021 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stax by Fattmerchant, which claims to be the industry’s “only” complete “all-in-one” solution for managing “everything” in the payments ecosystem, has announced the addition of credit card surcharging to its “feature-rich” technology. As mentioned in a released shared with CI: “With prices of processing fees… Read More

August 18, 2021 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bob Reid, CEO at Everest, a company focused on providing identity verification, account creation, and DeFi-related financial services, has shared key updates with Crowdfund Insider. Bob Reid talked about how his company successfully partners with established tech industry participants in order to provide seamless decentralized… Read More

August 17, 2021 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ximena Alemán, Co-CEO at Prometeo, the Latin American (LatAm) Fintech firm that’s leading Open Banking adoption throughout the region, recently shared key industry insights with Crowdfund Insider. Prometeo recently announced the launch of Spark, which is a free-of-cost program for high-potential startups, Fintechs, as well… Read More

August 9, 2021 @ 1:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WealthKernel, a Wealthtech solution provider for digital investment services, reveals that the US halal (Islamic) and ethical-focused investment company, Wahed, has now migrated its investment offering to WealthKernel’s “trusted” APIs. Wahed had teamed up with WealthKernel back in 2017 in order to use its white-label… Read More

August 4, 2021 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A completely digital economy has “always been on the horizon” and now, thanks to the Covid-19 outbreak, that horizon has been “brought to the forefront” of business operations, the team at UK-based Fintech Modulr writes in a blog post. Before the Coronavirus crisis, cashless payments… Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sila, an API platform that offers payment infrastructure as a service while ensuring regulatory compliance, has acquired $13 million in capital through a Series A round that was by Revolution Venture. Sila‘s latest investment round was joined by Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund, Mucker… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 7:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s Paytm, which has approved plans for almost a $2 billion IPO on the Indian bourses, recently shared how to lend credit to your clients in an effortless manner with Paytm Payouts. Over 10 years ago, could you have really imagined offering a loan to… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Profile Software, a global financial solution provider, reveals that it has introduced a new version of its Treasury platform, Acumen.plus. As noted in the announcement, the upgraded, STP, real-time Cloud-native platform aims to provide advanced UX and automation to the modern Treasurer, internationally. Leveraging its… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Comviva, the international leader in mobility solutions, reveals that it has launched mobiquity Pay X, which is described as a next-gen digital wallet and payments platform. mobiquity Pay serves as a digital financial services solution, supporting more than 70 digital wallets and payment services for… Read More

July 5, 2021 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

mmob, an Open Finance partnership platform, has announced that it has received authorization or approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for Payment and Account Information Service Provision. The approval from the United Kingdom’s regulatory authority validates mmob’s progressive business model and embedded finance… Read More

July 4, 2021 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FaizPay, a company offering a truly multi-channel fast and fair payments service that’s built on Open Banking rails, has secured 87% or £526,958 of its fundraising target of £600,001 from 79 investors (at the time of writing) via a securities offering on Seedrs. As of… Read More

June 22, 2021 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, Europe’s Open Banking platform, reveals that it has launched a new approach to account ownership checks with its Verification API. As noted in the announcement from TrueLayer, the Verification API will be leveraging Open Banking along with with machine learning algorithms. This should help… Read More

June 15, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Italy-based Fabrick, an Open Banking ecosystem, is introducing various API-powered solutions that aim to harness the power of Open Finance. Fabrick has developed two different solutions that are reportedly based on Mastercard APIs: InControl for Business and Identity Check Mobile (IDCM). They are used to… Read More

June 11, 2021 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Luxembourg-based Fintech Finologee has reportedly created a hosted system that offers API end-points in order to automate payments and support secure web interfaces which improve workflows and data visualization while establishing a direct connection to the SWIFT network. The product’s development has been supported by… Read More