Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Ozone API raises £8.5m to go global

London-based open banking fintech Ozone API has raised £8.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Gresham House Ventures.

23 January 2024

News/startups

Davos 2024: AI most relevant for fintech development until 2029

Bryan Zhang, executive director and co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at The University of Cambridge Judge Business School presented research on the future of global fintech, conducted in conjunction with the World Economic Forum.

19 January 2024

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Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

News/retail

TD inks data access deal with Plaid

TD has struck a North American data-access agreement with Plaid, enabling the bank's customers in Canada and the US to share their financial data with third-party providers.

18 December 2023

News/cloud

PwC forms alliance with Starling's Engine SaaS platform

PwC has signed on as a strategic implementation platform for Starling Bank's Software-as-a-Service platform, Engine.

07 December 2023

News/wealth

Barclays invests in WealthOS

Barclays has led a £2 million seed funding round for WealthOS, a cloud-native and API-driven core wealthtech startup.

22 November 2023

News/payments

UK fintech Railsr secures $24m in funding

Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance startup, has pulled in $24m in its latest series of fundraising.

30 October 2023

News/payments

Fiserv opens the door to embedded finance

Fiserv is making a move into embedded finance, making capabilities from its merchant acceptance, banking, and card issuing businesses available to others through a set of APIs.

20 October 2023

News/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.

18 October 2023

News/payments

Orum launches first product built on FedNow

Payments API provider Orum has built a product on top of the new FedNow rail to instantly verify bank accounts.

11 October 2023

News/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.

06 October 2023

News/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.

03 October 2023

News/retail

APImetrics and Contxt set to merge

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

14 September 2023

News/sustainable

UK banks ditch the Metaverse

The number of UK banks investing in technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality is falling as the Metaverse hype fades away.

13 September 2023

News/payments

India to add AI-powered conversational payments to UPI

The Reserve Bank of India has set out plans for a host of new fintech developments, including AI-powered "conversational" payments on the country's UPI system and a public digital platform for the provision of frictionless credit.

11 August 2023

News/payments

CFIT launches ‘Open Finance Coalition’ and unveils founding members

The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) today unveils the founding members of its ‘Open Finance Coalition’ who will collaborate to show the power of financial data for better SME and consumer outcomes.

13 July 2023

News/payments

Canadians unfamiliar with open banking

As Canada works towards the creation of an open banking framework, a new survey suggests that boosting awareness needs to be top of the agenda for a public largely oblivious to the concept.

30 June 2023

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