Latest Open APIs News: Finextra Research

Canada's NorthOne raises $2m for SMB mobile banking platform

Canada's NorthOne has raised $2 million in seed funding to build a mobile-first, API-enabled banking platform for startups and small businesses.

24 May 2018

News/Open APIs

Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day one

Key banking decision makers to the tune of 1200 have descended on Dublin to discuss the future of Fintech and digital banking for Temenos' annual conference. We're live-blogging proceedings here.

23 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Plaid expands into Canada

Enabling innovation in financial services means doing so everywhere. Today, we’re taking a step towards this vision by announcing our first international market: Canada.

22 May 2018

Company update/devops

Finastra adds US fintechs to open platform

Finastra today welcomed four early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open platform. US-based Fintechs, including Tradle, Conversation.one, Active Allocator and GreenPoint Financial, are on board to design and create apps on Finastra’s platform.

22 May 2018

News/Open APIs

UK payments community calls on Open Banking to do more to enable access for fintechs

A UK payments industry trade body is calling on the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) to force banks to do more to enable access for fintech firms.

22 May 2018

News/Open APIs

Digital banking transformation creating new systemic risks

Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance.

21 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Castlight empowers first open banking loan for HSBC

Castlight Financial, the Glasgow-based financial capability company, has partnered with HSBC UK in the delivery of the bank’s first open banking loan.

21 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

HPS launches open banking platform

HPS, a leading payment software company, has launched PowerCARD Connect-Open API, an open banking platform that enables FinTech firms to build innovative payments applications on banks and other large financial institutions’ existing payment systems.

21 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

US tech firms form alliance to drive bank data sharing

Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform for digital financial services, today announced a joint initiative with two major data platforms Quovo and Morningstar ByAllAccounts to enable secure, open data access for consumers in regard to their financial data.

18 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Equifax works with HSBC on Open Banking credit applications

HSBC UK has created the first live use case of open banking for credit applications using the InterConnect platform from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert.

17 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Consents.online to provide architecture for HSBC Open Banking platform

consents.online, a registered Account Information Service Provider (AISP) and subsidiary of leading bank data analytics platform, AccountScore, has entered into an agreement with HSBC UK to provide it with access to the transaction data of consumers from other organisations under the UK’s Open Banking programme.

17 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Revolut releases API for business banking

The internet has improved our lives in every way imaginable, by allowing us to build the interconnected world we all live in.

17 May 2018

News/Open APIs

Danske Bank invests in personal finance app Spiir

Danske Bank has made a multi-million krone investment in Danish account aggregation and budgeting app Spiir in preparation for the advent of Open Banking under the EU's new Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

16 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Stet publishes PSD2 API

STET, a European leader in payments processing, released a new version (1.3) of its RESTFUL API (Application Programming Interface) standard which will allow Third Party Providers (TPPs) to access payment accounts in a secure way.

15 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Deutsche Bourse to build 'Fintech Acceleration' platform

Deutsche Börse Group and its post-trade services provider Clearstream will partner with Germany-based FinTech figo and Luxembourg-based RegTech start-up Finologee to create a common FinTech Acceleration Platform.

15 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Finastra appoints new CRO

Finastra today announced the appointment of Elona Ruka-Wright as its new Chief Risk Officer.

14 May 2018

News/Open APIs

Australian Government pushes back against bank delaying tactics on Open Banking

The Australian Government has pushed back against attempts by the country's top banks to stall the introduction of Open Banking reforms, setting a one-year timetable for the move to data sharing with third party providers.

10 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Anorak uses TrueLayer’s API to open up life insurance market

TrueLayer, a leading provider of financial APIs, today annoucnes it has partnered with smart independent insurance adviser Anorak to enable the first application of PSD2 into the life insurance market.

09 May 2018

News/Open APIs

HSBC launches Connected Money app

HSBC has taken another step into the open banking era through the launch of its Connected Money app, enabling customers to see account information from all their providers in one place.

09 May 2018

Company update/Open APIs

Monzo opens payments app to 'Nearby Friends'

All the way back in March 2016, we launched the first version of Monzo-to-Monzo payments, letting you pay any of your friends on Monzo with just their phone number.

08 May 2018