Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Visa rolls out payment instalment APIs

Visa has introduced a suite of APIs to help financial institutions and retailers offer their customers the option to pay off instore and online purchases in instalments.

27 June 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

The relationship between banks' reputation and AI

Nuno Sebastiao, Chairman & CEO at Feedzai, speaks at Money 20/20 Europe about the importance of opening accounts in the banking space, what role AI plays in a banks reputation and how financial crime is having an impact on both society and the banks.

27 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Fidor selects Konsentus for TPP identity checks

Konsentus and Fidor Solutions announced today that Fidor Solutions AG, a fully-owned subsidiary of Fidor Bank, specialising in Platform as a Service and digital banking solutions, has selected the leading RegTech provider Konsentus to support the roll-out of its PSD2 open banking offering.

27 June 2019

News/Open APIs

Newcastle Building Society applies Open Banking to help customers in financial stress

Newcastle Building Society has used Open Banking tools to launch a digital debt help service for customers in financial difficulty.

27 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

CreditLadder supports Revolut for rent reporting

UK based tenants among the 1.4 million-plus customers of Revolut, one of the UK’s fastest growing challenger banks, are now able to report their rent through CreditLadder to credit reference agency Experian.

26 June 2019

News/devops

Open Banking could be worth £18bn a year to UK consumers and SMEs - report

Open Banking could realise £18 billion in value for British people and small businesses over the course of a year, claims an independent report, but only if the industry, government and regulators act to ensure the project realises its potential.

26 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Canada's Buckzy launches cross-border bill pay tool for FIs

Canadian fintech Buckzy Payments Inc. today announced an enhancement to its real-time cross border network by including real-time cross border bill pay through a single connection, solving a longstanding challenge to international bill payments.

25 June 2019

News/Open APIs

Indian neobank Open raises $30m

Open, an Indian neo-banking startup targeting SMEs, is set to launch a "programmable" bank account after raising $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management.

25 June 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Mutually beneficial emerging trends in the market

Carlos Kuchkovsky, Chief Technology and R&D Officer, New Digital Business, BBVA, speaks about emerging trends in the market, which technology FIs want to get their hands on most and how it is mutually beneficial and reinforcing for the different players.

25 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Estonia's TBB chooses Token and Icefire for PSD2 compliance

Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io, today announces it has been chosen by Tallinn Business Bank (TBB) to deliver PSD2 compliance in partnership with technology provider Icefire.

25 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Egypt's Banque du Caire goes live on Temenos Infinity

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announces that Banque du Caire has gone live with Temenos Infinity, the omni-channel digital banking product to transform the bank’s multiple banking channels into a fast, seamless and compelling customer journey.

25 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Yolt Pay reaches final Beta stage with Nationwide, Santander and Barclays PIS

Yolt, the smart thinking money app, today announced it has extended its payment test phase to UK customers who bank with Nationwide, Santander and Barclays.

24 June 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Platform concept becomes the operating model of choice

Jürgen Schneider, Managing Director, ONPEX, speaks to Hannah Wallace, Finextra about how Open Banking and digital transformation is evolving in the market, what the challenges and opportunities are around Open Banking, how corporates can benefit from these changes and what regulation they need to take into account.

24 June 2019

News/devops

ABN Amro app lets customers see current accounts from other banks

ABN Amro is getting to grips with PSD2, enabling customers to access their current accounts with other providers through its app.

24 June 2019

News/Open APIs

Carney positive on Facebook's Libra; says BofE could open up balance sheet to new players

Facebook's new digital currency, Libra, could "substantially improve financial inclusion and dramatically lower the costs of domestic and cross border payments," Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said in a speech during which he also revealed the central bank could open up access to its balance sheet to new payment providers.

21 June 2019

News/Open APIs

Churchill insurance added to Starling Marketplace

Starling customers can now apply directly from within the challenger bank's app for home insurance from Churchill Insurance.

20 June 2019

Company update/devops

Tatum unveils blockchain API platform

London based Blockchain company, Tatum Limited (“Tatum”), has launched a revolutionary and unique Blockchain API Platform.

20 June 2019

Company update/Open APIs

ABN Amro unit Moneyou turns to Konsentus for TPP identity checks

Konsentus today announced that the innovative online bank Moneyou, a subsidiary of ABN AMRO, with over 500,000 customers in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria, has selected Konsentus to support the roll-out of their PSD2 open banking offerings.

20 June 2019

News/Open APIs

Live: EBAday 2019, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Stockholm this week for EBAday 2019, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

19 June 2019

News/Open APIs

EBAday 2019: What’s more likely, JPMorganEats or UberPay?

Are Instant Payments and Open Banking a match made in heaven? The resounding answer was yes at an EBAday 2019 session on the current status of real-time payments and open banking initiatives in Europe.

18 June 2019