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News/payments
Mastercard is stepping up its open banking activity through partnerships with merchant solutions business Worldpay and BNPL firm Zip.
19 October 2023
News/people
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.
18 October 2023
News/wealth
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.
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.
09 October 2023
News/retail
NatWest is tapping Open Banking for a transaction categorisation service that lets businesses offer their customers personalised insights.
06 October 2023
Some of Canada's largest fintechs have launched a campaign to rally public support for government action on open banking and payments modernisation.
05 October 2023
News/inclusion
Financial wellbeing app Wagestream has acquired challenger credit card startup Keebo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 October 2023
London-based embedded finance firm Weavr is shutting down Comma, the open banking payments app it acquired just months ago.
Apple is soft launching a new iPhone Wallet app that is integrated with UK's open banking framework.
28 September 2023
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.
19 September 2023
Mastercard and Saxo Bank have announced a partnership to facilitate open banking payments into customer’s investment accounts.
Financial API and security specialists, APImetrics and Contxt today announced that they have agreed to merge.
14 September 2023
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.
12 September 2023
News/regulation
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.
08 September 2023
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.
Brits made 11.4 million open banking payments in July, a nine percent rise on the previous month.
31 August 2023
Swedish open banking and payments firm Trustly has acquired A2A-based recurrring payments platform SlimPay in a deal believed to be worth €70 million.
29 August 2023
The central banks of Singapore and Indonesia are planning to introduce the use of QR codes for cross-border payments between the two countries.
17 August 2023
The UK Government is to explore the use of open banking driven digital payments for public services.
09 August 2023
The US Federal Reserve is setting up a new supervisory unit to cover 'complex' technology partnerships between banks and non-banks, crypto activities, and the implementation of blockchain technologies.
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