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Tink announces €56 million investment round and goes live in five new European markets

Open Banking platform Tink has announced its completed a €56 million investment round, which is the company’s largest to date. Insight Venture Partners led the funding round. Also participating were existing investors Sunstone, SEB, Nordea Ventures and ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund. They were joined by new investors Christian Clausen,…

AccountScore and The Insolvency Panel announce Open Banking solution

AccountScore, together with The Insolvency Panel, have announced the launch of the first ever Open Banking solution for the debt advice and debt solutions sector.   The service, going live in February, will use AccountScore’s Open Banking platform consents.online to instantly auto-populate consumers’ income and expenditure information, direct from their…

FreeAgent to offer accounting software feed through Open Banking

Innovative fintech company FreeAgent has become the first UK accounting software to offer direct bank feeds via the Open Banking platform – giving customers even greater security and visibility over their business finances. The firm, who make award-winning cloud accounting software for small businesses, freelancers and accountants, has unveiled new…

Six business trends in banking for 2019

Opinion by; James Buckley, VP and Europe Director, Infosys Finacle The last few years have seen several non-banking companies such as technology majors, digital upstarts and FinTechs steadily expand their foothold in the financial services space. A 1recent study revealed that FinTechs now constitute about 33% of the financial services revenue…

HSBC & Goldman back U.K. Open Banking startup Bud

HSBC Holdings PLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among the investors in a $20 million funding round for U.K. banking-technology startup Bud. Bud said on Monday that it will use the money to create the world’s largest team dedicated to the development of Open Banking technology, connecting customers’ bank…

Open Banking body publishes operational guidelines

The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) is pleased to announce the publication of its Operational Guidelines and accompanying Checklist. The Guidelines have been produced to provide clarity and recommendations to financial institutions (ASPSPs) on the regulatory requirements for a dedicated interface, as set out in PSD2, RTS, EBA Guidelines and…

Data security is the key to unlocking Open Banking for consumers

Reservations about data security pose the biggest challenge when it comes to increasing consumer adoption of Open Banking, according to a new white paper from credit reference agency and information solutions provider, TransUnion (formerly Callcredit). Based on research with both consumers and financial sector decision-makers across the UK, the study…

World’s first Open Banking decisioning platform launched by The ID Co

Leveraging Open Banking data, DirectID Insights is the first online decisioning tool for use by Underwriters, Fraud Analysts and Credit Risk Officers that requires absolutely no integration. It drastically reduces operational costs for small and large businesses and unlocks all the information from bank data required for lenders to grant, or deny,…

Louise Beaumont blog: Outlook for Open Banking in 2019 from the FCA’s Innovate event

I trotted of to the FCA last week, because they asked me to speak on Open Banking in 2019 at their Innovate event. I covered: What are the inflexion points? Why do they matter? What will start failing? What will start scaling? How do you navigate? Here are the highlights…..…

Raisin and Santander Spain announce Open Banking tie-up

Source: Fintech Finance Santander Spain customers can register using the Santander Connect button, which facilitates registration at Raisin. Raisin today announced an Open Banking agreement with Santander Spain that allows customers to authorize the bank to share with Raisin defined data for the registration process, such as the customer’s name,…