Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

NatWest launches transaction categorisation service for businesses

NatWest is tapping Open Banking for a transaction categorisation service that lets businesses offer their customers personalised insights.

06 October 2023

News/payments

Weavr shuts down recently-acquired Comma app

London-based embedded finance firm Weavr is shutting down Comma, the open banking payments app it acquired just months ago.

03 October 2023

Company update/payments

Standard Chartered to deliver API-led real-time data for cash management

Starfish Digital, a Singapore headquartered fintech platform, and Standard Chartered, a leading international banking group, today announced a strategic partnership to introduce a multibank connectivity service, to support the bank’s corporate clients in establishing speedy and seamless connectivity between their systems and multiple banking relationships.

26 September 2023

Research/Open APIsWhite Paper

Build, Buy or Bust – Hybrid leapfrogging Legacy

22 September 2023 269 downloads

Company update/payments

Rocker and Snowdrop join forces for enriched transactions

Snowdrop Solutions, a leading provider of location-enhanced data enrichment solutions, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Rocker, a leading fintech company based in Stockholm. Through this partnership, Rocker will leverage Snowdrop's powerful transaction data enrichment API: the Merchant Reconciliation System API ™ (MRS), ushering in a new era of financial clarity and confidence for their users.

21 September 2023

News/retail

APImetrics and Contxt set to merge

Financial API and security specialists, APImetrics and Contxt today announced that they have agreed to merge.

14 September 2023

News/sustainable

UK banks ditch the Metaverse

The number of UK banks investing in technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality is falling as the Metaverse hype fades away.

13 September 2023

Company update/retail

Credit fintech Uplinq scores Visa partnership

Uplinq Financial Technologies – the first global credit decisioning support platform for small business lenders – today announced its collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments.

30 August 2023

Company update/retail

Pinwheel becomes Plaid preferred provider for direct deposit switching

Today Pinwheel, the market-leading provider of income and employment data engineered for fintech innovation, partners with Plaid, the leading open finance network, to provide complementary payroll data services for its Income product.

17 August 2023

News/payments

India to add AI-powered conversational payments to UPI

The Reserve Bank of India has set out plans for a host of new fintech developments, including AI-powered "conversational" payments on the country's UPI system and a public digital platform for the provision of frictionless credit.

11 August 2023

Company update/payments

Dwolla launches API solution for streamlined payments operations

Dwolla, a leading provider of payment services, today announced the launch of Dwolla Connect, an innovative API solution designed for mid- to enterprise-sized businesses.

08 August 2023

Company update/people

Stripe names Steffan Tomlinson as chief financial officer

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced that Steffan Tomlinson will join the company as chief financial officer.

04 August 2023

Company update/retail

Machias Savings Bank signs for Jack Henry core tech

Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JHKY) announced today that Machias Savings Bank, a $2.4 billion-asset mutual savings bank, has selected Jack Henry to modernize its technology stack and help it continue delivering high-level customer service as the bank grows.

31 July 2023

Research/Open APIsFuture of Report

The Future of Fintech in Africa 2023

20 July 2023 577 downloads

News/payments

CFIT launches ‘Open Finance Coalition’ and unveils founding members

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) today unveils the founding members of its ‘Open Finance Coalition’ who will collaborate to show the power of financial data for better SME and consumer outcomes.

13 July 2023

Company update/crypto

NayaOne integrates BitPanda tech into marketplace

The Digital Transformation Platform provider, NayaOne has integrated Bitpanda Technology Solutions into its marketplace.

10 July 2023

Company update/cloud

NovoPayment unveils new middleware orchestration layer

NovoPayment, a mission-critical financial and payments infrastructure provider, today released Orchestra 2.0, an advanced cloud-based middleware orchestration layer of its industry-leading BaaS platform. Orchestra is designed to help financial institutions quickly modernize their infrastructure in a more secure, scalable, and cost-effective way.

10 July 2023

News/payments

Canadians unfamiliar with open banking

As Canada works towards the creation of an open banking framework, a new survey suggests that boosting awareness needs to be top of the agenda for a public largely oblivious to the concept.

30 June 2023

Finextra TV/payments

The Last Chapter of the Payments Saga: Decision time for Financial Institution

Emanuela Saccarola, Global Co-Head of Cross-border Payments & Receivables, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, speaks at EBAday 2023 about what financial institutions are currently experiencing in the payments space, insights from FI clients on the shifting needs of customers, how to achieve digital transformation, and the ways in which API can be a critical enabler.

30 June 2023

Company update/cloud

Tuum and Marqeta offer pre-integrated fintech offering

Tuum and Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) have partnered to offer a pre-integrated fintech solution, accelerating time to market for Tuum’s customers by working with Marqeta’s open API platform.

22 June 2023