Open banking

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/startups

Open banking startup Prism Data raises $5m

Prism Data, the US open banking outfit that span out from Petal earlier this year, has raised $5 million in seed funding.

/payments

JP Morgan’s Pay-by-Bank product goes live

JP Morgan and Mastercard have announced the launch of their Pay-by-Bank solution, giving billers the ability to allow their customers to pay bills directly from their bank account, using traditional ACH banking rails.

/regulation

CFPB accelerates US open banking with new data rule

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed its long-awaited open banking rule in the hopes of improving competition in the US banking and payments sector.

/payments

Stripe embeds A2A payments in checkout with TrueLayer

Stripe is to provide customers of European merchants with the option to ditch card-based payments in favour of open banking linked transactions through an embedded checkout integration with TrueLayer

/startups

Westpac NZ invests in open finance outfit Akahu

Westpac NZ's venture capital fund has led a $1.4 million investment round in Kiwi open finance startup Akahu.

/payments

Mastercard inks open banking deals with Worldpay and Zip

Mastercard is stepping up its open banking activity through partnerships with merchant solutions business Worldpay and BNPL firm Zip.

/people

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.

/wealth

Flanks secures $8 million for Open Wealth platform

Open wealth platform Flanks has secured $8 million in a Series A round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, and followed by the existing investors JME Ventures and 4Founders Capital.

/payments

UK startup taps open banking technology to help people build their credit score

BuildMyCreditScore, a UK startup that enables individuals to effortlessly boost their credit score through everyday spending on a debit card, has launched in the UK.

/retail

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.

/payments

Canadian fintechs launch open banking public campaign

Some of Canada's largest fintechs have launched a campaign to rally public support for government action on open banking and payments modernisation.

/inclusion

Financial wellbeing app Wagestream buys Keebo to help workers access credit

Financial wellbeing app Wagestream has acquired challenger credit card startup Keebo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

/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.

/payments

Apple soft launches UK open banking integration for iPhone Wallet

Apple is soft launching a new iPhone Wallet app that is integrated with UK's open banking framework.

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Ant Group adds 10 e-wallets from the Alipay+ programme into China

Ant Group has introduced 10 mobile wallets already used across Asia to the Chinese mainland through the Alipay+ in China (A+China) program. The move comes in preparation for the Hangzhou Asian Games.

/payments

Mastercard and Saxo Bank team up for open banking account feature

Mastercard and Saxo Bank have announced a partnership to facilitate open banking payments into customer’s investment accounts.

/retail

APImetrics and Contxt set to merge

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

/payments

Natwest debuts payment links for open banking payments

NatWest's open banking payment platform Payit has introduced a new way for businesses to make a payment without needing the recipient's account details, by sending a secure, single-use payment link.

/regulation

CFPB takes aim at Apple over NFC chip access

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fired a shot across Apple's bows over the tech giant's policy of restricting access to the NFC chip technology that enables iPhone users to make payments.

/payments

BNY Mellon launches open banking payments service

BNY Mellon has teamed up with Trustly to launch an open banking-based service that makes it practical for organisations to support consumer payments directly from bank accounts.