Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

News/wealth

Barclays invests in WealthOS

Barclays has led a £2 million seed funding round for WealthOS, a cloud-native and API-driven core wealthtech startup.

22 November 2023

Research/Open APIsWhite Paper

UK Open Banking API Performance 2022-2023

07 November 2023 647 downloads

Finextra TV/markets

How investing in partner ecosystems and generative AI technologies puts real-time client needs first

Wissam Khoury, EVP of Treasury and Capital Markets at Finastra, discusses how Finastra's approach to delivering end-to-end solutions meets client banks' demands for increased efficiency and cost reduction, especially in an increasingly uncertain market. Emphasising the value of returning the power of innovation to clients through cloud-based technologies, extensive partner ecosystems and Gen AI, Wissam analyses the approach of leveraging open APIs and third-party solutions to ensure long-term sustainable growth for clients and communities.

06 November 2023

Research/Open APIsWhite Paper

How can the future state of information technology combat fraud and money laundering?

02 November 2023 393 downloads

Company update/payments

Dwolla Connect gets open finance integrations

Dwolla, a leading account-to-account payment services provider, announced the expansion of its latest solution, Dwolla Connect, by integrating it with the open finance ecosystem.

30 October 2023

News/payments

UK fintech Railsr secures $24m in funding

Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance startup, has pulled in $24m in its latest series of fundraising.

30 October 2023

News/payments

Fiserv opens the door to embedded finance

Fiserv is making a move into embedded finance, making capabilities from its merchant acceptance, banking, and card issuing businesses available to others through a set of APIs.

20 October 2023

News/people

Plaid appoints first CFO

Open banking platform Plaid has hired former Expedia executive Eric Hart as its first chief financial officer, filling a critical role ahead of an anticipated IPO.

18 October 2023

Company update/payments

Ecommpay unveils suite of open banking products

Ecommpay, a leading international payments service provider and direct bank acquirer, launches Open Banking Select - the latest addition to Ecommpay's integrated Open Banking payment suite. It offers greater control and scale over payment routing options, a consistent user experience, and all the features of Open Banking Advanced. By introducing Open Banking Select, Ecommpay becomes the first and only payment provider to orchestrate card payments and Open Banking transactions via a unified proprietary platform.

16 October 2023

Company update/retail

Backbase launches Integration Platform-as-a-Service

Backbase, a leading Engagement Banking Platform provider, is thrilled to announce the launch of Grand Central, its groundbreaking Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS).

11 October 2023

News/payments

Orum launches first product built on FedNow

Payments API provider Orum has built a product on top of the new FedNow rail to instantly verify bank accounts.

11 October 2023

News/retail

NatWest launches transaction categorisation service for businesses

NatWest is tapping Open Banking for a transaction categorisation service that lets businesses offer their customers personalised insights.

06 October 2023

News/payments

Weavr shuts down recently-acquired Comma app

London-based embedded finance firm Weavr is shutting down Comma, the open banking payments app it acquired just months ago.

03 October 2023

Company update/payments

Standard Chartered to deliver API-led real-time data for cash management

Starfish Digital, a Singapore headquartered fintech platform, and Standard Chartered, a leading international banking group, today announced a strategic partnership to introduce a multibank connectivity service, to support the bank’s corporate clients in establishing speedy and seamless connectivity between their systems and multiple banking relationships.

26 September 2023

Research/Open APIsWhite Paper

Build, Buy or Bust – Hybrid leapfrogging Legacy

22 September 2023 267 downloads

Company update/payments

Rocker and Snowdrop join forces for enriched transactions

Snowdrop Solutions, a leading provider of location-enhanced data enrichment solutions, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Rocker, a leading fintech company based in Stockholm. Through this partnership, Rocker will leverage Snowdrop's powerful transaction data enrichment API: the Merchant Reconciliation System API ™ (MRS), ushering in a new era of financial clarity and confidence for their users.

21 September 2023

News/retail

APImetrics and Contxt set to merge

Financial API and security specialists, APImetrics and Contxt today announced that they have agreed to merge.

14 September 2023

News/sustainable

UK banks ditch the Metaverse

The number of UK banks investing in technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality is falling as the Metaverse hype fades away.

13 September 2023

Company update/retail

Credit fintech Uplinq scores Visa partnership

Uplinq Financial Technologies – the first global credit decisioning support platform for small business lenders – today announced its collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments.

30 August 2023

Company update/retail

Pinwheel becomes Plaid preferred provider for direct deposit switching

Today Pinwheel, the market-leading provider of income and employment data engineered for fintech innovation, partners with Plaid, the leading open finance network, to provide complementary payroll data services for its Income product.

17 August 2023