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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

Company update/Open APIs

Deposit Solutions acquires Savedo

Deposit Solutions, the leading Open Banking platform for deposits and operator of investment platform ZINSPILOT, today announced that it has acquired Berlin-based platform for retail deposits SAVEDO.

14 August 2017

News/Open APIs

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

News/Open APIs

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

Company update/Open APIs

Oracle rolls out suite of payments and corporate banking products

Oracle today announced the worldwide release of its Oracle Banking Payments solution.

09 August 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Winning formula for the secret sauce

Bhavesh Vaghela, Industry Expert, explains at the SAP Financial Services Forum that customers can expect more tailored services due to banks becoming increasingly digital, handling data more, collaborating and expanding their revenues from open APIs.

07 August 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

PSD2 causes disruption to the status quo

Stephen Lemon, Co-Founder, VP Business Development, Currencycloud, speaks at the SAP Financial Services Forum about PSD2 in the context of open APIs – comparing the option of simply complying with the option of getting ahead by leveraging APIs for collaboration.

04 August 2017

Company update/Open APIs

DBS and Xero launch API-driven bank data feed

DBS, Asia’s leading SME bank[1] , and Xero, a leading global cloud accounting platform, have today launched an API-driven bank feed integration that will transform how mutual customers in Singapore manage their finances.

02 August 2017

News/Open APIs

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

Company update/Open APIs

Assetz Capital releases API

Financial services companies such as banks and money management apps can now offer their customers the option to manage their investment in peer-to-peer lending, with the launch of Assetz Capital-as-a-Service (ACaaS).

27 July 2017

News/Open APIs

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

Company update/Open APIs

Finastra FusionFabric.cloud picks up early adopters

Finastra today announced a new milestone in its Platform as a Service (PaaS) vision, with several early adopters now developing and running apps on FusionFabric.cloud.

26 July 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Interoperability key for API adoption in India

Sanjay Jain, iSPIRIT Aadhaar and India Stack, talks at the FinTechStage Inclusion Forum in Jakarta about the take-up of its mobile phone open API-driven payment system, how use is starting to rival that of cards, its potential to foster financial inclusion by offering a low-cost solution and driving new competition, and its additional functionality in the areas of KYC and digital identity.

20 July 2017

News/Open APIs

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

Company update/Open APIs

Swift Institute explores open banking

The SWIFT Institute is publishing a new working paper on open banking, looking at the possible impact of the adoption of public application programming interfaces (APIs) on the financial services industry.

18 July 2017

Finextra TV/Open APIs

For real-time, think business value, not business case

Conny Dorrestijn, VP Global Payments Marketing, FIS, and Marijke Koninckx, Product Marketing Manager, Instant & Open, FIS, talk about the findings of the 2017 edition of Flavors of Fast, FIS’ annual review of the real-time payments landscape, highlighting the growing linkage between open API and instant payments, the increasing focus on SME and corporate needs and the requirement to lift real-time payments to the ‘third dimension’.

13 July 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Allfunds releases API

Allfunds is boosting the capacity of the wealth management industry to engage in the digital ‘fintech’ revolution by launching an API* Platform to over 550 leading financial institutions.

13 July 2017

Company update/Open APIs

Finxact releases Open Core API

Finxact, an innovator in Core-as-a-Service banking technology, today announced the availability of its Open Core API, which is available through its sandbox.

11 July 2017

News/Open APIs

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

Company update/Open APIs

Stet issues PSD2 API

STET, a European leader in payments processing will issue in July a RESTFUL API (Application Programming Interface) standard which will allow Third Party Providers (TPPs) to access payment accounts.

10 July 2017