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As competition between banks builds across the UK, Open Banking Magazine caught up with the man leading the FinTech charge for Danske Bank in Northern Ireland. Joe McGrath reports… In December 2018, Danske Bank became the first of the so-called ‘big four’ Northern Irish banks to offer account aggregation…
Source: Klarna press release Today, Klarna, one of Europe’s leading payment providers, announced the launch of its own Open Banking Platform. This platform will enable access to more than 4,300 European banks through a single Access to Account (XS2A) API in line with Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Klarna’s XS2A API…
Ant Financial Services Group and Hoperun Information Technology have created a Distributed Core Banking Platform (DCBP), to help financial institutions shift their business models from transaction to customer-focus. The China-based organisations said the DCBP is a “next generation banking product” that aims to help financial institutions tackle digital challenges, including…
Open Banking Third Party Provider (TPP) Identity & Regulatory checking specialist, Konsentus, and turnkey Open Banking platform provider, Token.io, today announce a strategic partnership to provide European financial institutions (FIs) with a fast and powerful combined solution for PSD2 compliance. With PSD2’s Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) deadline passed, European FIs…
Circit has announced it has been granted registration as an Account Information Service Provider (“AISP”) by the Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”). Regulation by CBI paves the way for Circit to connect auditors with independent sources of audit evidence held by the banks of their client companies. Circit was founded in…
Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io Limited, today announces that its technology is enabling digital challenger bank Tandem to achieve PSD2 compliance and leverage Open Banking opportunities. Tandem is a digital-only bank that provides a money management app, credit cards and fixed-rate savings accounts to more than 500,000 consumers across…
Boost Capital, a leading provider of small business financing, today announced the launch of Open Banking capabilities as part of the company’s efforts to accelerate the funding process and improve the customer experience for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) applying for financing. Open Banking enables businesses to share their financial…
Norwegian bank Sbanken has selected Nets to support open banking with Nets Access to Account Services (NAAS) – a single platform that enables access to banks across the Nordics and Europe. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will facilitate new services and better overviews of finances for bank customers. Nets’…
Bespoke systems integrator, Prolifics Inc announces its new “OB Test Suite”, a testing solution dedicated to Open Banking and PSD2. The OB Test Suite aims to ensure that Account Servicing Payment Service Providers (ASPSP) are compliant with the Open Banking Implementation Entity’s (OBIE) stringent tests around the newly launched legislation;…
One more day remains until the next PSD2 milestone. Tomorrow, the EU banks should make available a sandbox to third party providers for connection and functional testing of their applications and how they interoperate with the bank interface.
