Open APIs

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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.

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Payments Canada Summit: open access and open banking

Payments Canada is pushing hard for the government to open up access to the country's payment systems to local credit unions and payment service providers this year, CEO Tracey Black told the organisation’s summit in Toronto on Wednesday.

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NextGen Nordics 2023: Speakers announced!

NextGen Nordics will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, and we will be welcoming a range of speakers who will discuss topics such as P27, cross border payments, open banking, BNPL, CBDCs, digital assets and Web 3.0.

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Monite doubles seed round to $10m

API-first embedded finance workflows startup Monite has raised another $5 million, doubling its seed funding round to $10 million.

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Nigeria's central bank releases PSD2-style open banking legislation

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved operational guidelines on open banking this week, becoming the first country in the African region to adopt open banking regulations.

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Monnai raises $6.5m to help fintechs use consumer data

Monnai, a provider of consumer insights infrastructure for financial institutions, has raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.

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Client onboarding outfit Sikoia raises $6m

Sikoia, a London-based unified data platform designed to simplify client onboarding and risk evaluation, has raised $6 million in seed funding.

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Brazil celebrates 2 years of open finance

Today marks two years since Brazil launched its Open Finance Initiative. Open banking in Brazil has blossomed thanks to the initiative, forging a new governance structure and financial system for financial institutions in the nation.

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Embedded banking player Treasury Prime raises $40m

Embedded banking platform Treasury Prime has raised $40 million a Series C funding round led by BAM Elevate.

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Ex-Plaid product lead launches e-commerce payment processing platform

Wafi, a startup founded by former Plaid product lead Victor Umunze, has launched its payment processing platform for e-commerce businesses.

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Marqeta builds web push provisioning product for mobile wallets

Open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta has unveiled a web push provisioning product that helps merchants accept payments from mobile wallets without requiring their customers to download an app.

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CMA announces completion of open banking roadmap

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced the completion of the open banking roadmap on the fifth anniversary of PSD2, which mandated open banking as a regulatory requirement in the UK.

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Santander advertises for 750 tech jobs

Banco Santander has opened technology hubs in Malaga and Warsaw to house 1400 tech professionals as the Spanish giant seeks to turbo charge its digital transformation programme.

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Japan's ZDF hawks cloud banking system

Japan's Zerobank Design Factory (ZDF) is set to start offering the cloud-based banking system it developed for sister company Minna Bank to the wider market.

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Bank monetisation of APIs represents "billions-per-year" opportunity

Rather than viewing the development of APIs as a regulatory cost burden, banks should strive to realise the considerable monetisation opportunites afforded by the trend, according to a new report from the Mobey Forum's Open Banking Expert Group.

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NatWest releases payment APIs for corporate customers

NatWest has released three new APIs to support corporate, commercial, and institutional customer demand for real time payments and automated reconciliation, including BACs payments.