FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 9 December 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Plaid CEO Zach Perret told employees “our pace of cost growth outstripped our pace of revenue growth”.
The not-for-profit association is looking to work with policymakers in a “whole-of-government” approach.
Equals will pick up Roqqett’s AISP and PISP licenses through the acquisition.
Cogo’s tech will feature on Tandem’s green living hub, with plans to integrate directly into the bank’s app in 2023.
Naga users will be able to top up their accounts using A2A payments authenticated via biometrics.
With the initiative, Klarna hopes to accelerate innovation in the development of open banking use cases.
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies, this week, based in the UK.
Introducing digital payment methods and ensuring adoption can be a challenge many businesses find daunting.
Kuda says its UK launch “is the first step in its global expansion to serve overseas based Nigerians”.
Speakers at the Fintech Talents Festival sat down to unpack the current state of play with open finance.
The solution is currently in the pilot stage with a rollout expected sometime in 2023.
To make open banking tech a success in the long term, the guarantee of data security must be a continued priority.
The framework includes legislation, regulatory guidelines and tech standards based on international best practices.
The licence allows the firm to integrate its FINX platform with multiple bank APIs.
“Meaningful innovation is the true litmus test,” says DBS’ Shee Tse Koon.
UnionDigital Bank will deploy Thought Machine’s Vault Core solution and Callsign’s digital ID platform.
The partnership will enable the app’s 4m users across Europe to continue to make the most of open banking.
Common business standards are required to enable interoperability of APIs across the financial services sector.
Legal & General and Lloyds will both take minority stakes in the business.
Token, Tink and Yapily will now be able to offer VRP as a new payment option.
Simon Lyons has left Pay.UK to join open banking company obconnect as its CSO.
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the globe.
Crowdz will implement three GoCardless open banking-powered payment features across four markets.
We speak with Dan Globerson of NatWest about the bank’s open banking strategy.
“This partnership is designed to help everyone get on top of their finances,” the two firms say.
I believe it’s been almost 30 years since banks truly innovated on products for retail customers.
Open Banking Expo Canada will take place in Toronto on 17 November.
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Adyen says its open banking integration will launch first in the UK, with plans to expand to multiple markets in 2023.
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Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Brands with large customer bases can use BaaS platform providers to create deeper relationships with customers.
Former Salt Edge CEO and co-founder Dmitrii Barbasura joins as COO while Iaroslav Babenco joins as CFO.
Start-up sync. was planning “massive growth” in 2021, powered by Railsr’s BaaS platform.
The OFA wants to usher in an era of open finance in much the same way the EU’s 2016 PSD2 did for open banking.
Fiinu has hired a new CFO, CPO and head of technology.
Open Banking Expo is the largest global community of open banking, open finance and open payments execs.
Despite “significant growth” in payment volumes over the last 12 months, the firm is looking to cut 40 employees.