Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

CMA chides big banks for Open Banking delays

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has reprimanded five banks for dragging their heels over the delivery of Open Banking functionality within their mobile apps.

09 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Emma and Chip forge Open Banking partnership

Open Banking apps Emma and Chip have partnered up to allow customers to track their automatic savings and savings goals within Emma’s dashboard.

09 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Gregory Pennington embeds Open Banking data to automate annual customer review process

Gregory Pennington, one of the UK's largest and longest established debt management companies, has integrated an Open Banking solution, provided by Equifax in partnership with AccountScore, into its annual customer review process.

09 April 2019

Company update/devops

Finastra to launch FusionONE Hackathon with Microsoft Azure

Finastra today announced the first public hackathon on its FusionFabric.cloud open development platform, underpinned by Microsoft Azure.

09 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Accounting software from FreeAgent latest to join Starling Marketplace

Starling, the leading mobile bank, has partnered with accounting software provider FreeAgent to help small business owners cut the time they spend on daily admin, digitise their finances and relax about tax.

08 April 2019

News/payments

Deutsche Bank releases API interface for instant payments in SAP ERP software

Deutsche Bank has joined forces with software firm Serrala to launch an API interface for Sepa instant payments for corporates using SAP enterprise resource planning software, taking a step towards real-time treasury.

05 April 2019

Company update/devops

Shamir Karkal's blockchain startup Sila moves into open Beta

Sila, the all-inclusive API platform for the development of FinTech and new economy applications, today announced the launch of its open Beta program.

04 April 2019

News/Open APIs

One-third of retail banks planning to build digital brands

As many as a third of retail banks are looking to build a greenfield digital bank to ward off competition from upstart challengers and cherry-picking fintechs.

04 April 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Faster, transparent and traceable payments

Thierry Chilosi, SWIFT gpi Go-to-Market Lead, speaks about what there is left to do around SWIFT gpi, why SWIFT is making payments confirmations mandatory, how banks will do this and how new services will be developed on the back of tracking these payments.

04 April 2019

News/Open APIs

Temenos TCF The Hague- Digital Banking Reloaded- live blog, Day 2

Rolling updates from the Temenos Community Forum in The Hague. It's a full house in the World Forum after a splendid gala dinner last evening. News and insights shared here on a continual basis throughout the day

04 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Salt Edge receives AISP licence from FCA

Salt Edge got registered by the FCA as an Account Information Service Provider (AISP) to offer access to financial data in compliance with PSD2/Open Banking in the pan-European space.

03 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Open Banking body urges UK firms to prepare for no-deal Brexit

The uncertainty surrounding the UK’s withdrawal from Europe is having repercussions for some firms operating within the Open Banking ecosystem.

03 April 2019

News/Open APIs

Temenos TCF The Hague- Digital Banking Reloaded- live blog, Day 1

Finextra is here in The Hague covering Temenos' annual bash. Stay tuned for live rolling updates on proceedings and the very latest in innovative functionality and streamlined operations.

03 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Preta goes live with the pan-European Open Banking Europe directory to support PSD2 compliance

PRETA launched today the onboarding process for the Open Banking Europe (OBE) directory, a pan-European, centralised and machine-readable repository for active regulated entities that can perform access-to-account (XS2A) services across Europe.

02 April 2019

Company update/payments

Truevo taps Temenos for fintech-targeted payments line

Malta-based card acquirer and payment solutions provider, Truevo Payments, today announced that it has selected Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, to launch a payments line to target fintechs.

01 April 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Digital at the Core: Banking embedded in the world around us.

Brett King, futurist and CEO, Moven, speaks at SunTec 2019 Confluence in Dubai about the importance of being Digital at the Core, how far banks have come, whether they have transformed radically enough and whether they can all co-exist together in the future.

01 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

Salt Edge updates API

Salt Edge announced the release of a new version of its unified Open Banking Account Information API; v5 comes with a Consent Management system and with changes that ease the way how financial institutions interact with the platform.

01 April 2019

Finextra TV/Open APIs

The evolution of the challenger bank model

Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Banks Research, Citi, speaks at Money20/20 ASIA in Singapore about the evolution of challenger banks, how incumbent banks can establish their own, separately branded digital banks and whether is it possible to build an incumbent challenger bank.

01 April 2019

Company update/Open APIs

KHCB adopts Token.io for Open Banking

Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in Bahrain, recently announced that it has partnered with Token.io as part of the bank’s preparations to provide open banking services to its clients in compliance with the new regulatory requirements.

01 April 2019

News/Open APIs

NatWest trials money management app

UK bank NatWest is trialling a standalone personal finance app that uses AI, data analytics and Open Banking APIs to help customers better manage their money.

01 April 2019