Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

HSBC backs Startupbootcamp FinTech Mexico

HSBC and VC fund IGNIA have become the latest big names to back Startupbootcamp FinTech Mexico, the accelerator bidding to boost financial technology innovation in Latin America.

15 September 2017

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Flux raises $1.5 million as Starling Bank opens fintech Marketplace

Starling Bank has gone live with its Marketplace model, enabling customers to tap into third party services from fintech firms direct from the challenger bank's mobile app.

12 September 2017

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Cryptocurrency transactions to exceed $1trn by year-end: report

A new report has forecast that the value of cryptocurrency transactions will surpass the $1 trillion milestone before the end of 2017.

05 September 2017

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Barclays pairs banking data with third party apps for SmartBusiness Dashboard

Barclays is to provide small business customers with a 'SmartBusiness Dashboard', a single site from which users can view real-time banking data alongside business information from third party apps.

18 August 2017

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TSB lambasts competition watchdog for failing to fix "broken" banking market

TSB has called on the Competition and Markets Authority to fix the UK's "broken banking market" by making it easier to switch bank accounts.

10 August 2017

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RailsBank raises $1.2 million in funding

RailsBank, a fintech startup led serial entrepreneur Nigel Verdon that promises to provide access to global banking services with 5 lines of code, has raised $1.2 million in a funding round led by Firestartr

09 August 2017

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Positive outlook for instant payments drives IT spend at EU banks

Sixty-two percent of European financial institutions expect to increase spending on payments technology throughout 2017, driven by the revenue-generating opportunities of instant payments and the need for increased operational efficiency.

01 August 2017

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Visa invests in card issuing outfit Marqeta

Visa has made a strategic investment in Marqeta as part of a wider multi-year global partnership with the open API card issuing and processing platform.

26 July 2017

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Twenty firms to compete for £5 million Open API prize

UK innovation agency Nesta has handpicked twenty organisations selected to receive a slice of a £5 million prize fund to inspire the creation of new products and services using Open Banking APIs.

19 July 2017

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Consumer groups and fintech firms at loggerheads over screen scraping

European consumer interest group BEUC has waded into the screen-scraping debate, urging banking authorities to ban the practice in favour of the creation of a harmonised interface for customer data sharing.

11 July 2017

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Nacha sets sights on standardised APIs

US electronics payments association Nacha is hoping to nudge along the industry's adoption of APIs by setting up a standardisation working group.

07 July 2017

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Open Banking releases payments initiation API for UK bank data sharing

Open Banking, the UK bank-funded entity mandated by the Competition and Markets Authority to provide new ways for customers to share their financial data with non-bank providers, has released an API specification for accounts and transaction information and payments initiation.

05 July 2017

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SAP Financial Services Forum, London - Day 1 live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the SAP Financial Services Forum in London. The theme for this event is 'winning in the digital moment'. The two-day agenda will examine how technologies such as AI, machine learning, analytics, blockchain, open APIs and the cloud can be best leveraged to deliver truly digitised financial services.

04 July 2017

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European savings and co-operative banks join screen-scraping row

Trade groups representing over 5000 European savings and co-operative banks have called on the European Banking Authority to reject Commission amendments to the revised Payment Services Directive which would require banks to provide a fall-back interface to screen-scraping technology for third party access to consumer bank data.

26 June 2017

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Bank API platform TrueLayer secures $3m series A funding

UK startup TrueLayer, a fintech developer platform that provides access to bank APIs, has secured $3 million in series A funding to pursue opportunities created by PSD2.

21 June 2017

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Swift offers €200,000 for two fintechs to leverage gpi platform

Swift has launched an Industry Challenge to find two winning fintechs who will be granted €100,000 to further develop new overlay services that leverage its Swift global payments innovation (gpi) platform.

21 June 2017

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Open banking rules to trigger new wave of challengers

Tech companies, retailers and price comparison websites could become major banking brands says Deloitte on the release of research which reveals that a significant number of consumers who already use mobile banking would be willing to share data with traditional retailers.

19 June 2017

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Berlin Group to publish single API standard for PSD2

The Berlin Group, a European coalition of banks and payment processors, is pushing a single standard for API access to bank accounts to comply with new regulations on freeing up customer data under PSD2.

13 June 2017

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Mizuho prepares for API banking

Japan's Mizuho is implementing API interfaces to third party personal financial management apps through a collaboration with IBM.

08 June 2017