Video: Top fintech stories this week – 03 February 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Open Banking
20th Banking Technology Awards Supplement
A golden celebration of excellence and innovation.
eBook: Digital identity management – the foundation of successful financial services
How to identify, recognise, authenticate and protect customers – wherever they are, at scale, in real time, across a growing number of devices, and connected objects.
Tally launches 2.0 version of UK Faster Payments-linked app
Tally is not a cryptocurrency, because it’s linked to a tangible asset.
White paper: Payments outsourcing – pros, cons & considerations that should be on your radar
Practical guidelines for banking institutions to consider when choosing a vendor.
API provider Currencycloud raises $80m in Series E funding
The round was co-led by Visa and SAP’s venture arm Sapphire.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 24 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
What does open finance mean for the wealth management sector?
Five opportunities that are both clearly beneficial for investors, and technically very feasible for FIs to develop.
BNP Paribas extends open banking partnership with Tink
French banking group now deploys Tink in Belgium and Italy.
Plaid and Honey: How consolidation helps and hinders competition
Consolidation is now becoming synonymous with standardisation – breeding competition.
Tink raises €90 million to power European expansion
Swedish open banking firm brings funding total close to the $200m mark
UK’s open banking tech hits one million customer milestone
The number doubled in the last six months.
How UK start-up The Money Platform is transforming credit for millennials
EXCLUSIVE: The lendtech is rolling out its open banking offering.
New challenges due to Open Banking and the benefits of instant payments
APIs are no longer seen as a difficult technical matter, but as a crucial building block.
Snoop picks OpenWrks to power its open banking
OpenWrks will connect Snoop to its customers’ current accounts and credit cards.
Belgian banking app Cake to launch first public app this month
The app pulls together customers’ existing bank accounts.
Til a mortgage do us part
Is three months of bank statements really enough to determine whether someone can afford a mortgage?
OP Financial Group signs Minna Technologies to advance open banking
Finland’s largest financial group calls the partnership “the right match”.
How pursuing an OpenAPI strategy has helped Saxo build an ecosystem
An ecosystem doesn’t live and breathe by itself.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
FinovateEurope 2020: what’s new?
Big changes are coming to Finovate!
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Token turns digital money solution into new paytech M10
M10 is building a “bank-grade digital money rail”.
Cash management – changes, challenges and opportunities
Cash management is critical for organisations operating across multiple geographies or multiple lines of business.
The time has come to make Open Banking evolve into open finance
The whole financial world must evolve decisively and with openness when approaching and preparing for innovation.
Plug and play platform FintechOS raises £10.7m
The start-up enables banks and insurance companies to compete with challengers.
The capitalist eco-warrior
Should companies have a purpose beyond profit?
Hungary’s central bank says major lenders could be “forced out” by fintechs
The bank mentions the pressures on revenues in a low yield environment.
UK start-up StorkCard launches joint account for parents to manage childcare
Each carer is issued their own card linked to the joint account.
API builder Tink launches in Italy and Portugal, opens Madrid and Milan offices
Tink has bagged transaction data from 32 FIs across the regions.
South Korea to launch open banking system this month
5.51 million open banking accounts have now been registered.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 29 November 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Fibank first in Bulgaria to launch PSD2-compliant open banking platform
Fibank customers will be able to move all accounts to My Fibank app.
Argentine money manager Ualá raises $150m in round led by SoftBank and Tencent
Bloomberg says Ualá is close to a $1 billion valuation.
UK challenger OakNorth’s partnerships chief leaves bank
Amir Nooriala has left the bank after just six months in the role.
MoneyLive 2019: Banks have to be humble even if they’re everywhere, says ING exec
Banks tend to over-promise to customers through their adverts, says ING CIO
Brazil’s Pride Bank says it’s the first LGBTI+ bank in the world
Last year Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, tried to stop LGBTI+ films.
OP Financial chooses Nordic API Gateway for open banking
OP Financial is looking for partners focusing on CX, reliability and security.
Canada’s online brokerage Questrade plans banking licence
A trademark application was also filed back in October for Quest Bank.
Ex-Virgin Money execs’ venture Snoop gets FCA approval
It can now receive financial data from banks as a registered third party.
