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News/regulation
Financial institutions need to transform their entire business and operating model to achieve bespoke and modular digital solutions while improving their profitability.
20 May 2024
News/payments
American open banking account-to-account payment fintech Aeropay has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Group 11.
17 May 2024
Australian Big Four bank NAB is partnering with Banked to launch Pay by Bank capabilities, leveraging Australian open banking rails PayTo to settle near-instant transactions.
08 May 2024
Private equity firm Gallant Capital Partners has acquired payments consultancy and testing specialist Fime as well as the UL Solutions payments testing business and merged the two. Financial terms were not disclosed.
07 May 2024
Digital payments provider Checkout.com has announced its partnership with payments giant Mastercard to provide Online Travel Agents with virtual cards.
02 May 2024
News/retail
Visa has launched open banking in the US, using technology from recently acquired Swedish vendor Tink.
25 April 2024
News/security
Mastercard is tackling the growing threat of scams through the launch of an AI-based product suite and several cross-industry partnerships.
In the first panel of NextGen Nordics 2024, Finextra’s head of content Madhvi Mavadiya moderated the session: ‘Instant payments – how to prepare for RIX-INST on TIPS and the benefits of starting with Swish’.
23 April 2024
News/markets
NextGen Nordics, Finextra’s annual payments event, kicked off on April 23 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together an array of experts and leaders in the Nordics payments industry.
UK Finance has teamed up with law firm Addleshaw Goddard to put together a set of model clauses that bank account providers and PSPs can use in variable recurring payments (VRPs).
The UK government has published its Smart Data Roadmap laying out its plans for smart data schemes across seven sectors, including banking and finance.
19 April 2024
News/inclusion
Financial wellbeing app Wagestream has raised £17.5 million in a funding round joined by a British Business Bank subsidiary.
If it wins the upcoming UK general election, the Labour party must harness the fintech sector as an engine for economic growth, opportunity and inclusion across the country, says a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
18 April 2024
The Canadian government has promised open banking legislation by the end of the year and confirmed that the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) will oversee the new system.
17 April 2024
The UK Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) is to build two working prototypes of open finance applications for providing financial advice to vulnerable consumers and to speed up credit assessments for SME loan applications.
Building on open banking to enable wider data sharing across financial services products including savings, mortgages and insurance, could unlock an extra £30.5 billion GDP a year for the UK, says a paper from Innovate Finance and KPMG.
15 April 2024
Bim Ofolami, UK government Economic Secretary to the Treasury, has announced the formation of an open finance task force during a speech at ifgs 2024.
News/predictions
The market for embedded finance is forecast to grow by 148% over the next five years, according to a recently published study.
02 April 2024
News/startups
UK open banking-powered startup BuildMyCreditScore says users have seen an average 52 increase in their credit scores in the first three months.
21 March 2024
Embedded Finance, Railsr's parent company, has approached Equals Group for a merger of the two companies, Sky News reports.
20 March 2024
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