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Monzo has opened its API to Moneybox, enabling users to round up and invest the spare change from their everyday purchases.
20 February 2018
San Francisco-based digital lending platform provider Roostify has closed a $25 million Series B financing round joined by Santander InnoVentures, Cota Capital and Point72 Ventures.
15 February 2018
Chetwood Financial, a new UK challenger outfit founded by the former deputy head of HSBC's UK retail bank Andy Mielczarek and tech vendor veteran Mark Jenkinson, has secured its banking licence and a significant investment of £150m in debt and equity from Elliott Advisors to help it grow.
12 February 2018
The Berlin Group, a European coalition of banks and payment processors, has published version 1.0 of its framework designed to give Third Party Providers (TTPs) API access to bank accounts in compliance with new regulations on freeing up customer data under PSD2.
09 February 2018
PSD2 will be a slow burn but the perfect opportunity for banks to define and build their digital transformation strategy, according to new research produced by Finextra, in association with CA Technologies
The UK's major banks are being shown a clean pair of heels by non-bank competitors in the Open Banking space, with new announcements by TrueLayer in tandem with Zopa, and Openwrks demonstrating the determination of third party providers to open up access to consumer account data.
Australia has moved one step closer to implementing an Open Banking regime with the publication of a final Government report into the issue, accompanied by draft legislation to mandate comprehensive credit reporting.
Giffgaff, the mobile network run by Telefonica, is to use Open Banking rules to provide a personal financial management service to its users in the UK.
08 February 2018
Cybersecurity takes top billing in the European Union's upcoming Fintech Action Plan, with a draft emphasising efforts to improve cooperation and coordination between market participants and regulators.
06 February 2018
Macquarie Bank is getting a head start on the Australian Government's push for Open Banking by sharing customer data feeds with Zip's personal financial management app Pocketbook.
31 January 2018
UK price comparison site GoCompare is opening up its APIs to fintech firms, letting them pump in anonymised transaction data for analysis.
Yolt, the smart money management app owned by ING, has become the first third party provider to complete a successful connection with a CMA9 bank - Lloyds - under the new Open Banking system.
25 January 2018
Danske Bank is embracing the open banking era, revamping its mobile app to let Nordic customers view data from their accounts with other providers.
24 January 2018
Money management app Emma has become the first startup to get onboard with Monzo's recently launched interim API for customer account data sharing.
22 January 2018
Norway's Sbanken has opened a developer portal through which customers can use a host of open APIs to build their own digital banking platforms, with the best efforts winning cash prizes.
19 January 2018
The UK's Open Banking Implementation Entity has selected Contego to run ID checks and verify the bona fides of users accessing personal account data for third party development work.
18 January 2018
Having racked up nearly two million users in Austria and the Czech Republic, Erste Group is rolling out its PSD2-ready digital banking platform, George, in Slovakia.
15 January 2018
The EU's second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) took effect on Saturday 13 January, bringing with it the start of Open Banking, however the prospect of a sudden revolution is likely to be thwarted by unresolved technical and regulatory issues and a lukewarm reception from consumers.
The academic research arm of interbank payments network Swift is calling on Australian-based students to devise new ways and means of protecting personal information in an open banking environment.
08 January 2018
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2017, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2018.
22 December 2017
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