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News/payments
The Euro Banking Association and Finextra’s full EBAday agenda is now live, boasting a jam-packed programme throughout the virtual event from June 28-30.
04 June 2021
News/devops
Mexico City-based Open Finance API platform Belvo has raised $43 million in a Series A funding round.
01 June 2021
Having been touted as the ‘missing piece of the instant payment puzzle,’ many are keenly interested in the potential Request-to-Pay holds for streamlining payments, improving customer experience, and optimising liquidity through better cash management and visibility.
25 May 2021
A blockbuster speaker line-up has been announced for Finextra and the Euro Banking Association’s upcoming EBAday event for 2021.
19 May 2021
News/retail
US Bank has teamed up with Plaid to enable the lender's millions of customers to connect their accounts to third party apps.
13 May 2021
First Direct has enlisted open banking specialist Bud to add transaction categorisation and merchant identification services to its mobile app.
10 May 2021
News/sustainable
Data sharing is key to designing financial instruments and creating demonstrable Net Zero results, noted Gavin Starks, CEO of Icebreaker One, in a FinextraTV interview.
04 May 2021
The shift toward instant payments will undoubtedly provide benefits for consumers, but it is the benefits for institutions and corporates that are likely to revolutionise financial services. However, to reap these benefits financial institutions must navigate the maze of deadlines and coinciding schemes in a proactive manner.
30 April 2021
GoCardless, the bank-to-bank payments fintech, has launched an open banking feature integrated directly into its global payment platform and functional across all payment models.
27 April 2021
Research by Solarisbank and the Handelsblatt Research Institute has found considerable conversion potential for e-commerce providers to offer financial services in Germany, confirming the significant opportunity embedded finance may hold across Europe.
26 April 2021
News/regulation
Co-founder and head of client delivery of RegTech Associates, Dr Sian Lewin has urged the financial community to stop thinking of regulators simply as “powerful organisations, here to control our behaviour, and stop us from doing certain things in the name of public interest.”
22 April 2021
During a panel for UK Fintech Week 2021, Barnabas Reynolds, global head of financial services group, Shearman & Sterling emphasised that to build trust in the system and allow space for fintech innovation, that the focus of supervisory systems should be on risk and not unnecessary code or control.
20 April 2021
Open Bank Project (OBP) has formed a partnership with the API3 Foundation to deliver banking and open banking data oracles to the decentralised web.
19 April 2021
Credit monitoring and building platform Credit Karma has picked Bud's Open Banking stack to help its UK members find better financial products and make smart money decisions.
16 April 2021
News/startups
Fintern, a UK startup aiming to shake up the market for low-value consumers loans with the launch of credit technology that bypasses credit scores in making lending decisions, has raised £32 million in equity and debt funding.
15 April 2021
News/crime
In June 2020, the FCA acted overnight to freeze customer accounts across UK fintech firms including Curve, Pockit, Soldo, Anna Money and Holvi, after Wirecard Card Solution’s (WCS) parent company filed for insolvency in Germany.
Just over half of people have never heard of open banking and many who have still worry about sharing their data, according to a global survey from Mambu.
TSB Bank is launching a bill management and utility switching service after a pilot found that users saved an average of £150 a year.
14 April 2021
Pioneering a defined strategy in 2020, the European Commission outlined its intention to adopt a legislative proposal for a new Open Finance Framework by mid-2022.
09 April 2021
News/cloud
Companies adapting to the new normal brought on by the pandemic have been forced to undergo a digital shift toward contactless payments and a surge in online transactions. As a result, many are looking to Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) to enable innovative financial and payments services that can be embedded into digital apps and products. Further, the deployment of BaaS enables a faster time to market for more personalised propositions.
01 April 2021
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