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Money Dashboard names former PayPal Emea CEO Renier Lemmens as chairman

Money Dashboard has appointed Renier Lemmens, ex-Revolut board member and Paypal Emea CEO, as its new chairman

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Brazil introduces open banking

Brazil is the latest country to embrace open banking, rolling out a new regulation enabling licensed institutions to share customer data.

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SIX launches central platform for bank data sharing

Swiss infrastructure provider SIX has launched a centralised platform for the standardised sharing of account data between financial institutions and third party firms.

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Nordea switches on account aggregation from Tink

Nordea is to provide its mobile banking customers with account aggregation and personal financial management tools from Swedish vendor Tink.

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Payments-as-a-Service API platform Modulr raises £18.9m

Modulr, a UK Payments-as-a-Service API platform for digital businesses, has raised £18.9 million in a funding round led by Highland Europe.

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Danish platform Billy looking to transform accounting at SMEs

Danish accounting platform Billy is harnessing Open Banking to get access to SMEs’ data from banks and transform the way they perform their accounting.

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Open Banking Europe publishes draft signature standards for bank APIs

Open Banking Europe, the entity operated by EBA Clearing subsidiary Preta, has published a draft API signature specification, as part of an attempt to provide a coherent standard for fintechs connecting to bank APIs.

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Payments startup Primer raises £3.2m

UK payments startup Primer has raised £3.2 million in a seed funding round led by Balderton Capital and joined by Transferwise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus.

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Covid-19 pushes back Canada's open banking review

Canada is putting the latest stage of its Open Banking review on ice because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to reports.

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Bank API developer Treasury Prime lands $9 million in funding

Treasury Prime, a US startup that provides banks and fintechs with an API overlay for legacy infrastructure, has raised $9m in a Series A funding round.

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Open Banking player LuxHub secures EUR7.4m from founder banks

Luxembourg-based open banking startup LuxHub has raised EUR7.4 million from its founder banks - Banque Raiffeisen, BGL BNP Paribas, Post Luxembourg, and Spuerkeess.

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ING and HSBC join £5.7 million funding round in TransFicc

Low latency trading and workflow outfit TransFicc has closed a series A investment round of £5.7 million led by Albion VC with participation from new investors ING and HSBC.

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G20 TechSprint Initiative invites firm to tackle regulatory challenges

The Saudi G20 Presidency and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub are launching a virtual hackathon-style competition to find new technological ways to tackle financial regulatory compliance and supervision challenges.

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Surecomp brings Open Banking to trade finance

Trade finance technology supplier Surecomp has released a set of API interfaces and a sandbox testing environment for banks and third party developers, as the spread of Covid-19 disrupts traditional paper-handling processes.

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Pan-EU hackathon calls on fintechs to tackle Covid-19

The European Commission is to host a virtual pan-European hackathon this weekend in a bid to develop solutions to coronavirus-related challenges.

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JP Morgan invests in cash management startup Trovata

Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash reporting and forecasting through wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, has scored $4.3 million in funding led by JP Morgan.

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DNB and Danske Bank top up investment in Nordic API Gateway

DNB and Danske Bank have invested a further EUR4.6 million in Spiir, the Danish financial app as it prepares for a full-scale launch of its Nordic API Gateway subsidiary in Europe.

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Nasdaq launches cloud data service

Exchange operator Nasdaq has launched a cloud data service, running on AWS, that gives clients access, via a suite of APIs, to real-time exchange data, index and fund data.

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Even Financial moves into insurance through LeapLife acquisition

Even Financial, the startup that uses an API to help banks find and connect with consumers via channel partners, is entering the insurance space through the acquisition of LeapLife. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Visa invests in Railsbank

London-based open banking and regtech platform Railsbank has topped up its Series A funding round with investments from Visa and Japanese VC Global Brain.