Open APIs

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GoCardless taps TransferWise for borderless recurring payments

GoCardless has teamed up with TransferWise to help its business customers collect recurring payments from overseas at the "real" exchange rate.

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Open Banking Europe publishes bank API directory

Open Banking Europe, the entity operated by EBA Clearing subsidiary Preta, has published a directory intended to list all publicly available bank APIs in the European Union.

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OCBC speeds up business account opening process

Startups are now able to open an OCBC business account in Singapore immediately after incorporation, thanks to an API between the bank and Experian.

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Bahrain lures startups with fast-track setup programme

Bahrain is putting its friendly approach to cryptocurrency regulation at the centre of a new initiative designed to make it easy for global startups to set up shop in the Arab state.

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Koyo raises £3.8m for Open Banking loan platform

UK open banking-powered online lender, Koyo, is set to launch later in the year following a £3.8m ($4.9m) raise in debt and equity funding.

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BNY Mellon director: US has more B2B open banking activity than Eurozone

Laura McGortey, director of strategic partnership solutions at BNY Mellon, claims that there is more open banking activity in the US B2B payments space in comparison to the Eurozone, on the final day of AFP 2019 in Boston.

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Santander InnoVentures invests in Roostify

Santander InnoVentures has led an expansion funding round for San Francisco-based digital mortgage lending platform Roostify. The size of the round has not been disclosed.

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How to manage vanilla treasury payments against the backdrop of regulation

Finextra spoke to ING’s head of transaction services Americas Tibor Bartels at AFP 2019 about his experience working with both US and European treasurers and chief financial officers and whether regulation has helped with cash management or has been a hindrance.

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A treasurer’s best practice guide to global payment integration

Corporate business success stories can only be achieved if treasury professionals are keenly aware of the payment options, innovations and regulatory changes that are, can and will impact financial operations.

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Fintech API builder Galileo to go global on $77 million capital injection

Galileo, which provides the API infrastructure layer for some of the world's top fintech startups, is plotting a global expansion programme after snagging $77 million in its first institutional funding round.

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Where do incumbents look for game-changing innovation?

How can the established players in financial services deliver meaningful game-changing innovation? What are the challenges in building this from scratch and does the key lie in partnerships with fintechs and start-ups?

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TrueLayer opens Australia office

UK data sharing outfit TrueLayer is to open an office in Australia as it seeks to take advantage of the country's forthcoming move to Open Banking.

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Starling adds digital insurance firm Nimbla to marketplace

Challenger bank Starling has partnered with digital insurance platform Nimbla to offer its 65,000 small business customers the ability to protect themselves from financial losses caused by bankrupt clients.

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DNB bids to become Norway's go-to banking app through Nordic API Gateway tie-up

Norway's largest bank, DNB, is launching a new version of its mobile app, powered by the open banking platform Nordic API Gateway.

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UK fintechs compete for £1.5m open banking challenge prize pool

More than 100 fintech firms have applied to take part in the UK's Open Up 2020 Challenge, which will see them compete to unlock the power of open banking and bag a share of a £1.5 million prize fund.

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81% of banks would collaborate with fintech partners to execute digital transformation - Finextra

At EBAday 2019, hosted by Finextra in association with the EBA, it was revealed that 81% of banking executives would collaborate with partners to execute digital transformation most effectively.

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NAB and Westpac invest in open banking startup Basiq

Australian open banking platform Basiq has closed a Series A funding round joined by NAB Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Westpac’s Reinventure. The size of the round was not disclosed.

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Nationwide establishes 'Open Banking for Good' incubator in Covent Garden

Nationwide Building Society is working with five fintech startups in a collaboration space in London's Covent Garden as part of its £3 million Open Banking for Good challenge.

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PayPal joins traditional banks in KBC Mobile account aggregation package

Belgium's KBC has added PayPal balances and transactional information to its mobile bank account aggregation app.

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Mercury raises $20m to build bank services for startups

Mercury, a San Francisco-based digital banking outfit targeting startups, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Charles River Ventures.