Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Finn AI joins Temenos MarketPlace

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announces the launch of Finn AI on Temenos MarketPlace, Temenos’ platform for facilitating the exchange of value between fintech providers and financial institutions.

21 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Experian secures FCA accreditation to supply Open Banking and PSD2 services

The UK’s largest credit reference agency, Experian, can now offer Open Banking and PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) services to enable the exchange of bank account information between people and organisations.

21 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Open Up Challenge finalists announced

Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre has today announced the twelve fintech businesses who will participate in the final phase of the ‘Open Up Challenge’ - a £2.5m prize fund backing the next generation of financial technology for small businesses.

21 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Merchants, retail banks and billing orgs favour real-time payments and open banking

New benchmark data, “2018 Global Payments Insight Survey: Cross-Vertical,” from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) and Ovum reveals that 86 percent of banks, 82 percent of billing organizations and 78 percent of merchants expect to see improvements in their customer service as a result of real-time payments.

20 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

EBA clarifies issues around authentication and data sharing under PSD2

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion on the implementation of the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) and common and secure communication (CSC), which will apply from 14 September 2019. In the Opinion, the EBA clarifies a number of issues identified by market participants and Competent Authorities (CAs) to assist in this implementation.

19 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Plum returns to Seedrs for crowdfund round

Plum, the world’s first AI-powered money management chatbot, has today announced its second equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.

19 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Jyske Bank turns to Spiir for PSD2 play

One of the largest Danish Banks draws first blood in the Nordic PSD2 game. The third largest bank Jyske Bank in Denmark went live with account aggregation for all their personal banking customers yesterday.

15 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Open Banking: 1 in 3 Australians willing to allow banks to share their data

New research from Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) into Australia's banking industry reveals that almost a third of Australians are willing to support data sharing in an open banking environment, but only if privacy and security concerns are addressed.

12 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Finastra integrates Optimal Blue into Fusion MortgagebotPOS tech

Finastra has integrated Optimal Blue into its Fusion MortgagebotPOS solution, enabling banks and credit unions to provide mortgage applicants with Optimal Blue’s live pricing searches, via any point-of-sale channel.

11 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Funded by 32 banks, Preta Open Banking Directory enters next phase

Today, PRETA announced the launch of phase 2 of its Open Banking Europe (OBE) directory project.

08 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Token completes PISP Open Banking transaction

Millions of customers are set to benefit from simpler and more secure payments as leading open banking platform provider Token.io Limited makes history by becoming the first licensed Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) to conduct an end-to-end payment through a public bank API.

07 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Alpha Fintech and Trustly team on online banking payments

Alpha Fintech, the fintech vendor management platform that simplifies the management of current vendors and exposes new payments, risk and commerce providers via a single interface, is proud to announce a new partnership with European payments company Trustly.

06 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Envestnet/Yodlee unveil AI FinCheck

Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced significant enhancements to its Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Financial Wellness Solution at CFSI's Emerge Financial Health Forum.

06 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Fabrick launches to create Open Banking ecosystem

Within the framework of Money 20/20, Europe’s premier event dedicated to Fintech innovators and visionaries, Fabrick is born, the collaborative evolution of Open Banking, conceptualised to help design the future of the sector, leveraging on the new paradigms forged by technological innovation.

06 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Citi opens API sandbox

Citi's Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) continues to expand its Application Programming Interface (API) solution through CitiConnect®, Citi's state-of-the-art integration platform.

05 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

AJ Bell launches developer hub to link into Open Banking

AJ Bell has today become the first investment platform in the UK to launch a Developer Hub through which banks and other financial apps will be able to request to link to the AJ Bell Youinvest platform.

05 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Bank Sohar implements Infosys' Finacle core banking platform

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), today announced the successful implementation of the Finacle Core Banking and Analytics solutions, at Bank Sohar one of the fastest growing banks in Oman.

05 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Bud preps API offering Bud.X

Bud has announced Bud.X (the Bud Exchange), a service that will make it easy for companies to access enriched open banking capabilities and new distribution models.

05 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Finastra FusionFabric.cloud brings banks and fintechs together

Today, at Money 20/20 Europe, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Finastra announced the availability of the three core components within its FusionFabric.cloud platform for open innovation.

05 June 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Adyen integrates with Mastercard Account Updater service

Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, today announced its direct API integration with the Mastercard® Account Updater service.

04 June 2018