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Singaporean startup FinGo taps eWise for aggregation tech

FinGo Ventures has today announced a partnership with account aggregation specialists eWise, ahead of the launch of the mobile payments and bank account aggregation app, FinGo.

31 October 2016

News/Aggregation technology

Goldman Sachs leads $44m Plaid Technologies funding round

Goldman Sachs Investment Partners has led a $44 million funding round in Plaid Technologies, a platform that lets the likes of Venmo and Transferwise connect with their users' bank accounts.

20 June 2016

Company update/Aggregation technology

Envestnet | Yodlee launches Risk Insight API

Envestnet | Yodlee (ENV), a leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced it is expanding its product offering by introducing Envestnet | Yodlee Risk Insight, a new solution that provides lenders with the ability to see a complete view of consumer bank account and spending activity.

11 April 2016

Company update/Aggregation technology

Betterment announces account aggregation

Betterment, the largest automated investing service, today announced account aggregation for all customers.

09 March 2016

Company update/Aggregation technology

EWise launches Aegis data management platform

EWise, a leading international provider of personal data management solutions, is launching its new product Aegis, the consumer-centric data management platform, at Finovate Europe.

10 February 2016

Company update/Aggregation technology

Yodlee releases FastLink V2.0

Yodlee(R) (YDLE), the leading platform driving digital financial innovation, today announced an update to FastLink with its version 2.0.

06 October 2015

Company update/Aggregation technology

EWise names James Redfern global head of sales

eWise today announced that James Redfern has been named as Global Head of Sales and will lead the eWise sales teams in Europe, Asia and Australia.

22 September 2015

Company update/Aggregation technology

Defaqto swaps private equity owner

Defaqto Group, a benchmarking company that provides a number of ratings and data analysis services to financial institutions, has swapped its private equity owners after Foresight Group sold its share in the firm to the management, backed by a majority investment of £24.25m from UK PE firm Synova Capital.

01 April 2015

News/Aggregation technology

Swift London Business Forum to continue discussions on FinTech innovation

Challenger banks will feature heavily in the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London. Craig Donaldson, CEO at Metro Bank UK, is joined by keynote speaker Sir David Clementi, ex-deputy governor of the Bank of England and chairman of Virgin Money.

27 March 2015

News/Aggregation technology

Dotcom survivor Yodlee files for IPO

Dotcom boom survivor Yodlee is finally ready to go public, fifteen years after makingg its debut as a novel screen-scraping service for bank account aggregation.

01 July 2014

News/Aggregation technology

Citi to beta bill payment aggregator Manilla

Citibank is to participate in a beta roll-out of Manilla, a free personal account management service that helps consumers securely manage all of their household accounts including bills, finances, travel rewards programs and subscriptions in one place online.

01 March 2011

News/Aggregation technology

'Per-user' real-time LSE data reporting now in use at UBS

UBS is reporting its netted exchange data usage direct to the London Stock Exchange as part of a new 'per-user' programme, which allows firms to directly report their global real-time terminal inventory to the LSE.

30 November 2010

News/Aggregation technology

UK PFM start-up Kublax runs out of cash

UK-based personal finance start-up Kublax has folded after failing to secure new investment.

16 February 2010

News/Aggregation technology

Yodlee raises $35m funding

Yodlee, a US provider of online bill payment and account aggregation technology, has raised $35 million in a financing round led by Bank of America.

04 June 2008

News/Aggregation technology

Mint raises $4.7 million in series a funding

US Web 2.0 startup Mint, which provides an online account aggregation and management service, has raised $4.7 million in a series a funding round led by Shasta Ventures.

17 October 2007

News/Aggregation technology

Spowart launches new online venture

Jim Spowart, the former chief executive of Intelligent Finance, is heading a new financial services comparison Web site that is being launched by Scottish media company SMG.

09 August 2006

News/Aggregation technology

Yodlee and CashEdge square up in patent fight

US account aggregation vendor Yodlee says a federal court ruling strengthens its patent claims against rival company CashEdge.

13 July 2006

News/Aggregation technology

Wells Fargo ditches OneLook account aggregation service

US bank Wells Fargo is scrapping its free account aggregation service OneLook early next year due to poor customer uptake.

28 November 2005

News/Aggregation technology

Yodlee adds PassMark two-factor authentication to aggregation services

US account aggregation vendor Yodlee is adding two-way two-factor authentication technology from California-based PassMark to its personal financial services, such as online bill payment.

08 June 2005

News/Aggregation technology

Reuters and Nasdaq form JV to deliver independent analysis

News and information group Reuters is establishing a new company with Nasdaq that will commission and distribute independent analysis on US listed companies that are currently under-covered.

07 June 2005