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Company update/payments

Minna releases Subscriber API

Minna Technologies today announces the Subscriber API, one API to fuel the subscription economy.

17 April 2023

Company update/retail

Corelation signs two Hawaiin credit unions to Keystone core

Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union ($798 million assets; 46,027 members; Kailua Kona, HI) and Pearl Hawaii Federal Credit Union ($464 million assets; 31,022 members; Waipahu, HI), having spent multiple decades on different cores, came to the conclusion that a change was necessary and overdue.

13 April 2023

Research/Open APIs

The Future of Fintech in the UK 2023

13 April 2023 686 downloads

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2023: Speakers announced!

NextGen Nordics will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, and we will be welcoming a range of speakers who will discuss topics such as P27, cross border payments, open banking, BNPL, CBDCs, digital assets and Web 3.0.

27 March 2023

Finextra TV/predictions

What payment trends we can expect in 2023?

In this episode of FinextraTV's PREDICT 2023 Series, Dalbir Sahota, Senior Director Product Management, Bankers Almanac® at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, shares his forecast for cross-border payments and APIs. For more information on the research cited, please visit:

23 March 2023

Company update/wholesale

GTreasury releases out-of-the-box global bank API connectivity suite

GTreasury, a treasury and risk management platform provider, today announced the launch of ClearConnect Gateway, a uniquely-comprehensive, out-of-the-box global bank API connectivity suite.

22 March 2023

News/startups

Monite doubles seed round to $10m

API-first embedded finance workflows startup Monite has raised another $5 million, doubling its seed funding round to $10 million.

20 March 2023

News/payments

Nigeria's central bank releases PSD2-style open banking legislation

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved operational guidelines on open banking this week, becoming the first country in the African region to adopt open banking regulations.

10 March 2023

News/startups

Monnai raises $6.5m to help fintechs use consumer data

Monnai, a provider of consumer insights infrastructure for financial institutions, has raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.

10 March 2023

Company update/retail

Codebase Technologies and Saudi Business Machines team on digital financial services in KSA

Codebase Technologies (CBT), a leading global open API banking fintech, has partnered with Saudi Business Machines Ltd. (SBM), Saudi Arabia's leading provider of end-to-end enterprise information technology and telecommunications solutions.

03 March 2023

Company update/security

Aproov finds worrying security vulnerabilities in fintech apps

Approov, the end-to-end mobile security provider, today issued findings showing that 92% of the most popular banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets such as API keys, which could be used in scripts and bots to attack APIs and steal data, devastating consumers and the institutions they trust.

02 March 2023

Company update/retail

Brankas releases multi-bank API for instant account opening on third-party apps

Open finance leader Brankas has today announced a new feature enabling instant bank account opening as an “embedded finance” experience on third-party applications.

01 March 2023

Company update/wealth

Dynasty picks BridgeFT wealthtech API

Dynasty Financial Partners (“Dynasty”), the provider of technology-enabled wealth management solutions and business services for financial advisory firms, announced today that Dynasty has chosen BridgeFT’s WealthTech API as its primary custodial data partner to power Dynasty’s integrated wealth technology offerings across the Dynasty Network.

23 February 2023

Company update/retail

Mission Lane expands Plaid open finance partnership

Purpose-driven fintech Mission Lane today announced it is expanding its partnership with the data network Plaid to bring secure open finance solutions to its two million-plus customers.

22 February 2023

News/startups

Client onboarding outfit Sikoia raises $6m

Sikoia, a London-based unified data platform designed to simplify client onboarding and risk evaluation, has raised $6 million in seed funding.

17 February 2023

Company update/identity

Plaid and Okta team on open finance access

Plaid, the data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life, and Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA), the leading independent identity provider, today announced a partnership and integration to help thousands of banks and financial institutions adopt OAuth and APIs for exchanging data with third parties.

14 February 2023

Company update/payments

Finzly releases API connection to access FedNow Service

Finzly, a pioneer in banking and payment technology, and a pilot participant in the FedNow Service, announced today that developers from platforms, fintechs and banks can access the sandbox environment that connects to the pilot version of the instant payment platform through Finzly API.

08 February 2023

Company update/markets

State Street launches FIX API connectivity to simplify ETF creation

State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) announced today the launch of a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) application programming interface (API) for its Fund Connect ETF platform, a global online portal for the creation and redemption of ETFs within the firm’s GlobalLink product suite.

07 February 2023

News/payments

Brazil celebrates 2 years of open finance

Today marks two years since Brazil launched its Open Finance Initiative. Open banking in Brazil has blossomed thanks to the initiative, forging a new governance structure and financial system for financial institutions in the nation.

02 February 2023

Company update/retail

Freedom Finance extends relationship with loan provider, Koyo

Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital marketplaces, is delighted to announce that it has extended its relationship with Koyo – a key partner already providing loans through Freedom Finance’s panel.

02 February 2023