Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Tink hires Stripe’s former head of Emea banking as new market lead for Uk and Ireland

Open banking platform Tink has strengthened its commitment to the UK and Irish markets by appointing Stripe’s former head of EMEA banking, Rafael Plantier, as its new Country Manager for the UK and Ireland.

07 November 2019

News/Open APIs

Will trust woes undermine Open Banking under PSD2?

In a roundtable discussion held Wednesday in London hosted by digital payments firm PPRO, industry leaders met to explore the impact PSD2 has imposed on key players in Open Banking and the changes needed to achieve the regulation’s objective in 2020 and beyond.

06 November 2019

News/payments

GoCardless taps TransferWise for borderless recurring payments

GoCardless has teamed up with TransferWise to help its business customers collect recurring payments from overseas at the "real" exchange rate.

06 November 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Digital Banking Strategy for 2020 Fraud Challenges

Scott M. Clements, Chief Executive Officer and President at OneSpan, talks to Finextra TV about innovation trends in digital banking, the rise of identity theft and mobile fraud, and the need for banks to increase agility as the threat environment evolves rapidly.

06 November 2019

News/Open APIs

Open Banking Europe publishes bank API directory

Open Banking Europe, the entity operated by EBA Clearing subsidiary Preta, has published a directory intended to list all publicly available bank APIs in the European Union.

06 November 2019

Finextra TV/crypto

Fiat Currency 2.0: Counter argument to the Cryptocurrency narrative

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citi, speaks at Money 20/20 USA about the practical problems that still need addressing in the crypto-currency community, how Fiat Currency 2.0 will help fix payments as a counter balance to crypto and what challenges still exist around tokenisation and coins. We ask how this impacts the big techs and what regulatory, political and ethical concerns need to be addressed first before they achieve their own currencies.

05 November 2019

News/startups

Bahrain lures startups with fast-track setup programme

Bahrain is putting its friendly approach to cryptocurrency regulation at the centre of a new initiative designed to make it easy for global startups to set up shop in the Arab state.

04 November 2019

News/Open APIs

OCBC speeds up business account opening process

Startups are now able to open an OCBC business account in Singapore immediately after incorporation, thanks to an API between the bank and Experian.

04 November 2019

Company update/Open APIs

South Korea begins Open Banking pilot

The open banking system will be pilot-launched in the banking sector on October 30. During the pilot-run period, the government will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the system and make adjustments if necessary before opening the system to fintech firms on December 18.

01 November 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Experian dispenses with the paperwork for business loans with Open Data

Lenders can now make it faster and simpler for small businesses to apply for finance by using a new Open Data solution from Experian.

30 October 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Dwolla unveils integration partner program

Today at Money20/20 2019, Dwolla, Inc., a financial technology company that offers a seamless, white label API platform to connect to the ACH Network, announced technology to complement its Partner Ecosystem.

29 October 2019

Company update/devops

Salt Edge presents SCA software to open source community

Salt Edge presents to the open source community its new project – Salt Edge Authenticator.

29 October 2019

Company update/Open APIs

AccountScore and Equifax release new Open Banking credit risk index

AccountScore and Equifax have today announced the release of a new credit risk index for the consumer lending sector which allows financial institutions to more effectively understand consumers applying for credit products.

29 October 2019

Company update/Open APIs

TrueLayer joins Visa partner network

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading provider of financial APIs, has agreed a strategic and commercial relationship with Visa as part of its commitment to growing the Fintech industry.

29 October 2019

News/inclusion

Koyo raises £3.8m for Open Banking loan platform

UK open banking-powered online lender, Koyo, is set to launch later in the year following a £3.8m ($4.9m) raise in debt and equity funding.

29 October 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Taking open banking beyond compliance

Tino Kam, head of transaction banking solutions, Nordea, speaks with Finextra about how banks can keep sight of their core objectives in the context of complex advancement in payments technology, the Nordea open-banking platform offering, and how banks should differentiate and decide between the best ecosystems in which to participate.

28 October 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Coconut taps Open Banking APIs

Coconut, the smart accounting app designed specifically for self-employed people, is set to automate bookkeeping for millions of people around the UK.

25 October 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Outlook for Treasury Ecosystems in 2022

Thomas Zink, Research Director, IDC & Tim Tyler, Global Industry Principle, Corporate, Finastra, speak about Finastra's on treasury trends, the shift in treasurers priorities, what banks need to do to stay relevant and future proof, and what technology banks can look to to support them going forward.

24 October 2019

News/payments

BNY Mellon director: US has more B2B open banking activity than Eurozone

Laura McGortey, director of strategic partnership solutions at BNY Mellon, claims that there is more open banking activity in the US B2B payments space in comparison to the Eurozone, on the final day of AFP 2019 in Boston.

23 October 2019

News/startups

Santander InnoVentures invests in Roostify

Santander InnoVentures has led an expansion funding round for San Francisco-based digital mortgage lending platform Roostify. The size of the round has not been disclosed.

23 October 2019