Tagged: open banking

September 27, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Galaxy, which claims to be one of the industry-leading financial innovation companies, has announced the addition of a team of global Open Banking/Finance experts “as it looks to ramp up its product offering and presence across the MENA region.” Appointments reportedly “include Salt Edge’s… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

BR-DGE , a merchants payments provider that aims to offer a simple and affordable “payment orchestration platform,” has announced a partnership with Vyne. Vyne uses Open Banking to enable account-to-account payments for online businesses. In a company statement, BR-DGE explained that the partnership with Vyne… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuapay‘s innovative and “fully customizable” open banking and real-time account-to-account payment capabilities will “give Pay360‘s customers access to cutting-edge payment technologies across all of its gateway connections.” Pay360 claims it is “a market leader for public sector payments – used by more than 60% of… Read More

September 22, 2022 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PCI Pal (LON: PCIP), the global SaaS provider of secure payment solutions for business communications, has announced the launch of its Pay By Bank open banking solution for contact centers. It is the first in “a series of new agent-assisted, digital payment products that enable merchants… Read More

September 22, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, a provider of direct bank payment solutions, has launched Verified Mandates in France. Part of the GoCardless global ‘bank payment’ platform, Verified Mandates “combines the Account Information Services (AIS) capabilities of open banking with bank debit to stop fraud before it happens.” This represents… Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 3:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Open banking firm MX has announced the availability of a new product and new implementation partners that are said to “bolster” the MX platform. MX has revealed a new mobile banking SDK for companies to build their own mobile banking apps. MX noted that it… Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aiia, a Mastercard company, and NORD.Investments are announcing a collaboration that will “enable quick, easy and secure top-up open banking payments in Denmark’s largest independent digital investment advisor platform.” Until today, NORD.Investments customers “experienced some challenges when adding funds to the investment platform, as the… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum, an Estonian-born “next-generation” core banking platform, has partnered with Salt Edge, a key player in open banking solutions, “to help financial services providers from all over Europe to leverage the full spectrum of open banking features – fast and secure.” As technological advancements make… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Yapily is looking forward to teaming up with fintech unicorn Pleo, which offers a smart business spending solution, “to enable a simplified payments experience for its UK users.” Research shows that 82% of businesses that fail “do so as a result of… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Klavi, a Brazilian Fintech startup, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by venture capital funds Iporanga Ventures and Parallax Ventures and included GSR Ventures. Klavi said the banking infrastructure provider CIP S.A. and Vivo Ventures, Vivo’s Corporate… Read More

September 6, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Easy4Cloud, which conducts operations in Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and the US, digitizing different business areas and simplifying their management, has selected Fabrick to expand its offer and introduce BancheinCloud, a Business Intelligence platform for the aggregated management of Current Accounts through which personal,… Read More

September 2, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading open banking platforms, announces its collaboration with Bybit, the “third-most visited” cryptocurrency exchange in the world. Bybit was established in 2018 as a crypto derivatives trading platform “where retail investors and traders could benefit from an… Read More

August 31, 2022 @ 9:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Banco Santander has enlisted Trovata to provide cash forecasting and liquidity management for its corporate clients. In a corporate statement, Trovata said that the agreement was for global distribution with Santander. The partnership is expected to see Santander market Trovata’s cash management platform to its… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) recently announced granting permit to a new batch of companies; Lean Technologies and Mod5r to “provide Open Banking Solutions; bringing the total number of permitted Fintech companies operating under its Regulatory Sandbox to 38.” This step completes “a series of… Read More

August 26, 2022 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nationwide Building Society has improved the process for new and existing members opening a savings account by now “allowing them to fund the account straight away as part of the application process.” Previously members would have to wait a few days “until the account was… Read More

August 25, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Ventures has become the latest major company to invest in Mexico City’s open finance API platform Belvo. Citi Ventures has reportedly joined Visa as an investor in Belvo, which finalized a $43 million Series A investment round back in June 2021. The investment also… Read More

August 24, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wes Hummel has been named Chief Technology Officer for Open Banking provider MX. Hummel is expected to oversee the company’s engineering and information security teams reporting to MX Chief Executive Officer Jim Magats. Magats said that Hummel brings a tremendous amount of experience in leading “high… Read More

August 23, 2022 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Huw Davies, Chief Commercial Officer, Ozone API, which has been involved in the development of Open Banking from the very beginning. Ozone API started by developing the sandbox and reference implementation for the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) –… Read More

August 23, 2022 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Open Banking provider Plaid is continuing to expand its services around the world – focusing for now on Europe. According to a note from the company, Plaid is now live in 8 markets, having recently added Spain and Poland and offering data connectivity in Germany…. Read More

August 23, 2022 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Payment has announced a partnership with Token – an Open Banking provider. According to a company statement, an upcoming launch of “PayThisWay“, an account-to-account payments service, will be powered by Token’s Open Banking platform. Token’s white-label-ready platform is designed to enable payment providers like… Read More