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UK fintech Railsr secures $24m in funding

Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance startup, has pulled in $24m in its latest series of fundraising.

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Fiserv opens the door to embedded finance

Fiserv is making a move into embedded finance, making capabilities from its merchant acceptance, banking, and card issuing businesses available to others through a set of APIs.

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Plaid appoints first CFO

Open banking platform Plaid has hired former Expedia executive Eric Hart as its first chief financial officer, filling a critical role ahead of an anticipated IPO.

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Orum launches first product built on FedNow

Payments API provider Orum has built a product on top of the new FedNow rail to instantly verify bank accounts.

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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.

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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.

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APImetrics and Contxt set to merge

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Open payments firm Volt raises $60m

London-based open payments gateway Volt is targeting Asia Pacific and the Americas after securing $60 million in a Series B funding round led by IVP.

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Philippines and India sign fintech MoU

India and the Philippines have moved to strengthen the ties between their respective fintech sectors by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU).

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BIS and Bank of England complete CBDC project

A pilot project involving central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) jointly run by the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).

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AmEx inks data sharing deals with Plaid and Yodlee

American Express has formed data sharing agreements with Plaid and Yodlee to offer card members the option to connect to thousands of third-party financial apps and services.

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Eric Schmidt invests in cross-border payments platform Keeta

Cross-border payments startup Keeta has launched with $17 million in funding from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

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Standard Life partners Moneyhub for open finance integration

Standard Life is teaming up with Moneyhub to roll out an open finance-powered tool, Money Mindset, to its 1.5 million workplace pension scheme members.

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BIS panel to promote harmonisation of API protocols in cross-border payments

The Bank for International Settlements is calling on market participants to join a panel working on the harmonisation of API protocols for cross-border payments.

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Payments orchestration platform Paydock raises £25m

Payments orchestration platform Paydock has raised £25 million in a Series A funding round from Silverstripe Investment Management.

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Mastercard taps open banking for digital account opening

Mastercard has unveiled a digital account opening tool that uses open banking to integrate customer verification with identity insights into a single API.