Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Worldline receives TPP licence from Bank of Belgium

Worldline [Euronext : WLN], the European leader in payment and transaction services, has obtained two new licenses, linked to the PSD2, from the National Bank of Belgium enabling the company to become a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) and an Account Information Service Provider (AISP).

16 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Consumers left clueless about banking options

Online research from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, reveals a lack of awareness of banking options among Brits.

16 July 2018

News/Open APIs

Metro Bank opens developer portal

Branch-based Metro bank is upping its digital game with the launch of a developer portal for third party firms to build services on top of its APIs.

13 July 2018

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Taking payments system testing seriously

Anthony Walton, CEO, Iliad, talks about why financial institutions can no longer put payment testing on the back-burner and should be taking it more seriously, how this can be achieved and what approach organisations should take when it comes to payments testing.

12 July 2018

News/Open APIs

Nationwide backs Open Banking for Good challenge

Nationwide Building Society has challenged the fintech community to develop Open Banking technology that helps improve the lives of the one in four UK households who are financially squeezed – equivalent to 12.7 million people

11 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

PFM chatbot Plum connects to Monzo and Starling

Money management chatbot Plum is excited to announce that it will now support challenger banks Monzo and Starling Bank thanks to Open Banking and a partnership with API specialist TrueLayer.

11 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

The Mobey Forum charts strategic options for Open Banking

Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and financial institutions to shape the future of digital services, today publishes a new report, entitled ‘Producers, Distributors, Aggregators: Strategic Options for Banks in the Post-PSD2 Age’.

11 July 2018

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Championing financial inclusion and helping the Unstoppables

Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder, Monese, speaks openly about how his personal experience inspired him to address the issue of people cut off from banking services. Hear how he has grown a successful Fintech to drive financial inclusion

10 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Finos adds GreenKey SDK to voice programme

Finos (the Fintech Open Source Foundation), a nonprofit foundation promoting open innovation in financial services, in coordination with GreenKey Technologies, a leader in real-time voice technology, today announced the contribution of the GreenKey SDK to the Finos Voice Program.

10 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Intuit's direct bank feed now live with Lloyds Bank

Intuit Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Intuit Inc (Nasdaq: INTU), and Lloyds Bank (LSE: LLOY), announced today that its direct bank feed is now live.

10 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Liberis gains first small business funding application via Open Banking

Alternative finance provider Liberis, has used Open Banking technology to increase funding access for UK small businesses; using it to process a full funding application for the first time.

10 July 2018

News/Open APIs

No greater change will occur than that in financial services

Twelve hundred banking professionals gathered from around the world to network and discuss the challenges and benefits of digital transformation at the Temenos Community Forum. The venue was the National Convention Centre in Dublin. The theme- Digital to the Core.

09 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Equifax partners with consents.online for Open Banking

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has formed a strategic alliance with consents.online, a digital consent management and AISP accredited Open Banking platform which for the first time allows UK consumers and small businesses to manage the sharing of their financial information.

09 July 2018

Finextra TV/Open APIs

Corporate liquidity management and the Euro-payments arena

Henrik Lang, Head of Liquidity, GTS EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks at EBAday 2018 about the key themes of the event, whether the speed of account of rationalisation has been strong in the Europe payments arena since SEPA and what will be the impact of RTP on liquidity management.

06 July 2018

Finextra TV/Open APIs

The benefits of Open APIs and RTP for merchants

Thomas Sontheimer, Managing Director, Accenture, talks at EBAday 2018 about what makes open banking APIs and real time payments more attractive to merchants than credit cards, what the benefits are and what obstacles lie ahead.

06 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

PFM app Emma boards Open Banking train

London-based Emma Technologies LTD has joined the Open Banking initiative. After successfully having registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, the company can now fully operate and use the new Open Banking APIs provided by the biggest banks in UK.

06 July 2018

News/Open APIs

National Bank of Canada invests in local data sharing startup Flinks

National Bank of Canada and Luge Capital have participated in a $1.75 million funding round in 18-month old data aggregation and account verification startup Flinks.

05 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Alliance challenges FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services

A financial services Alliance with a combined global membership of 200,000 is challenging the FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services.

05 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Canopy partners with TrueLayer to bring Open Banking to the rental market

TrueLayer, a leading provider of financial APIs, has partnered with rental marketplace Canopy.

05 July 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Iliad launches support for RTP and API testing

Iliad Solutions’ latest release of its t3:Switch software is now available with full support for Real-Time Payments (RTP) and API testing for OpenAPI and REST based initiatives.

04 July 2018