Tagged: open banking

November 25, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which is one of Europe’s Open Banking platforms, has announced its collaboration with Spanish broker Ninety Nine in order to provide an enhanced experience leveraging open banking payments. Ninety Nine was formed with the stated goal to educate consumers on investing and “empower their… Read More

November 24, 2021 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the UK’s leading business financial platform serving over 375,000 SMEs – nearly 7% of the market, has revealed that it will allow SMEs to connect their existing business accounts, “held at other institutions, to its platform using Open Banking.” In the first such move… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Azimo and Trustly have partnered to facilitate cross-border payments in Europe. Azimo is a money transfer service that aims to be the best way to send money to more than 190 different countries around the world. Trustly is an open banking platform targeting the payments… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance notes in an update that it brought the payments industry together to “consider the future opportunity for open banking payments and how the market could collaboratively shape that future.” There are now more than 2.5 million Open Banking payments every month compared to… Read More

November 17, 2021 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Yapily, an open banking platform, has expanded into Spain, according to a company statement. Yapily notes that it already can cover over 95% of Spanish bank accounts, both retail and commercial, at 52 banks. Yapily recently raised $51 milion in Series-B funding and said it… Read More

November 12, 2021 @ 3:06 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Earlier this month the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provided an update on the current state of open banking in the region. It comes after the release of a report from an independent investigator of allegations against the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE)…. Read More

November 11, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, the international Open Banking platform, has announced a new collaboration with investment platform Lightyear in order to provide instant account funding via Open Banking payments. Lightyear, established by ex-Wise professionals Martin Sokk and Mihkel Aamer, combines multi-currency accounts with unlimited access to 1,000+ international… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 10:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Open banking platform TrueLayer has appointed Rob Hale as its Head of Banking in Australia. According to a note from TrueLayer, Hale was previously at Regional Australia Bank (RAB) where he was Chief Digital Officer. Hale is said to have aided Regional Australia Bank to… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) has announced that it’s looking to appoint an independent Non-Executive Director (iNED) to its Board. As mentioned in the announcement, Open Banking enables consumers and SMEs to share their bank account details in a secure manner with trusted third-parties… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubai-based Open Banking firm Tarabut Gateway recently secured $12 million in capital via a pre-Series A round. Tarabut Gateway’s investment round has reportedly been led by Tiger Global. Other investors made contributions as well, including new backers Dubai International Fintech Fund, which is an investment… Read More

November 5, 2021 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Northern Bank Ltd, doing business as Danske Bank UK, is confirming that it has teamed up with the European Open Banking platform, Aiia (acquired by Mastercard) to provide digital solutions to help its 20.000+ business and corporate clients via its business banking platform, District. The… Read More

November 2, 2021 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE), a specialized payments platform, announced that it has completed its acquisition of German Fintech firm, viafintech, in an all-cash deal. viafintech, known under the brands of Barzahlen/viacash and viacash, provides bank-independent, payments infrastructure in the DACH region, “allowing a popular alternative to the… Read More

November 1, 2021 @ 7:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s first accredited and active intermediary of the Consumer Data Right (CDR) Adatree has shown the key capabilities of its SaaS tech solutions by assisting flexible payment platform Payble with accelerating its initial Accredited Data Recipient (ADR) journey to only four weeks. This has set… Read More

November 1, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Banking is driving the “largest disruptors” in the virtual banking market, BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) and embedded finance, by serving as an “enabler for delivery of these concepts,” according to a report from Juniper Research. As noted in a whitepaper, shared by Juniper Research: “While the… Read More

October 28, 2021 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

PensionBee, a Fintech offering pension services, has integrated Plaid – a leading open banking provider. According to PensionBee, the partnership will expand the remit of Open Banking to include pensions, transforming the traditionally complex process. PensionBee previously offered open APIs but this will be an… Read More

October 25, 2021 @ 9:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Galaxy, the UAE-headquartered open innovation platform, has acquired $2 million in seed funding in order to further enhance the development and rollout of its Open Finance platform, as it looks to further expand its reach and support financial inclusion across the MENA region. Fintech… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Plaid, a top open banking platform, and Currencycloud, a multi-currency transfers Fintech, have agreed to a strategic partnership, according to a release. The collaboration between the two firms is expected to deliver new joint solutions to make it easier for firms in the UK, including… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Codat, the universal API for small business data that assists software providers and financial institutions with creating integrated products for their SME clients, has announced an integration partnership with the international tech platform Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU). This partnership will aim to bring about “a new… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Credit Kudos, the Open Banking credit reference agency, has introduced Signal, which aims to serve as an accurate, explainable Open Banking credit score in order to assist lenders with serving the requirements of more clients, lower defaults and evidence risk decisions. Currently available in the… Read More

October 17, 2021 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Salt Edge, a Financial API platform has partnered with Italian Fintech accelerator Supernovae Labs in order to support Italian financial institutions and third-party providers with aggregating banking data and carrying out payments enhanced by PSD2. Through their collaboration, Salt Edge and Supernovae Labs are providing… Read More