Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Open banking fintech Bud raises $80m

Open banking fintech Bud has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by an indirect affiliate of investment funds managed by TDR Capital.

07 June 2022

News/security

NatWest launches Confirmation of Payee API for business customers

NatWest has launched an API that lets commercial customers embed Confirmation of Payee into their own systems and processes.

30 May 2022

News/payments

NatWest pioneers UK’s first ‘non-sweeping’ VRPs

Making Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) available to businesses and consumers for ‘non-sweeping’ customer payments, NatWest has become the industry’s first firm to go beyond the requirement to offer VRPs for account sweeping.

27 May 2022

News/cloud

TCF 2022: Plug-and-play required for hyper-personalisation

Max Chuard, Temenos CEO, opened the Temenos Community Forum 2022 (TCF) introducing a number of the key themes to be covered during the conference, from embedded finance, to disruptive technologies, disintermediation, new business models, composable services, and sustainability.

19 May 2022

News/payments

Plaid accuses Stripe of underhanded tactics over new open banking product

Shots were fired over Twitter last night, as Plaid CEO Zachary Perret accused Stripe of dishonestly obtaining valuable information which it then leveraged to launch its new open banking product, Stripe Financial Connections.

05 May 2022

News/cloud

Temenos Community Forum 2022 theme announced

As media partner for the Temenos Community Forum, Finextra can reveal the theme for the first in-person event Temenos has held in three years.

05 May 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2022: Anticipating the European Commission’s PSD2 review

Open Banking is set to receive its first ‘school report’ from the European Commission this year, setting out how the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is performing, along with consideration of progress being made toward Open Finance.

29 April 2022

News/payments

Minka raises $24M to help overhaul national payment systems for the digital economy

Colombia-based fintech Minka, a provider of last-mile APIs and shared ledgers for national payment networks, has secured $24 million in capital through a funding round led by Tiger Global and Kaszek.

29 April 2022

News/devops

Finastra announces Hack to the Future 4 winners

Finastra has named the winners of its Hack to the Future 4 annual global hackathon.

28 April 2022

News/payments

UAE grants open banking licence to Tarabut Gateway

Tarabut Gateway, a Bahrain-based open banking platform, has been granted a licence to provide payment services to and from the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC).

22 April 2022

News/payments

Advent takes majority stake in MangoPay

Private equity giant Advent International is buying a majority stake in MangoPay, a European payment technology provider for marketplaces and platforms.

06 April 2022

News/startups

Stock trading API startup lemon.markets raises €15m

Lemon.markets, a Berlin-based startup that helps firms embed trading services via APIs, has raised €15 million in a seed funding round co-led by Lakestar and Lightspeed.

06 April 2022

News/payments

Codebase launches white-label BNPL product

Banking API provider outfit Codebase Technologies has launched a white-label BNPL offering for banks, fintechs, lenders, and merchants.

04 April 2022

News/devops

ADGM and Finastra join forces for ‘Hack to the Future 4’

The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has partnered with Finastra for its globally renowned fintech hackathon, Hack to the Future 4.

01 April 2022

News/payments

Modern Treasury raises $50m

Payments orchestration platform Modern Treasury has topped up its Series C funding round with an extra $50 million from SVB Capital and Salesforce Ventures.

31 March 2022

News/startups

Australian payments startup Zepto raises A$25m for international expansion

Australian real-time account-to-account merchant payments platform Zepto has raised A$25 million in a Series A funding investment by AirTree Ventures and Decade Partners.

29 March 2022

News/payments

Banking as a service gaining unstoppable momentum

Almost 85% of senior executives surveyed are already implementing Banking as a Service (BaaS), or are planning to in the next 12-18 months, says a market assessment report published by financial software company Finastra today.

28 March 2022

News/regulation

CMA unveils recommendations for future of Open Banking

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced a new committee – the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC) – to oversee the continued rollout of Open Banking in the UK, among other recommendations.

25 March 2022

News/payments

Mastercard rolls out open banking payments tools

Mastercard has unveiled a pair of open banking tools designed to improve predictability and transparency in digital account-to-account payments for merchants.

23 March 2022

News/payments

Lloyds partners ProjectPay to streamline construction sector payments

Lloyds Bank has joined forces with ProjectPay to help tackle missed and delayed payments in construction supply chains.

23 March 2022