APIs

Open banking will bring banks and fintechs together

11/14/19

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

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How Mastercard aims to help banks win back customers’ trust

11/05/19

The financial services industry has struggled with how best to explain privacy and data-sharing practices to customers. Mastercard is offering a new framework.

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Q2 buys PrecisionLender for $510 million

11/01/19

PrecisionLender, the digital banking software vendor's largest acquisition to date, sells sales coaching software.

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Fiserv updates online bill pay for banks, plans real-time payments

10/24/19

Leveraging new technology and APIs, Fiserv has rolled out CheckFree Next, a major update of the core CheckFree bill payment technology Fiserv acquired in 2007.

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API developer Galileo raises $77M to expand outside North America

10/17/19

The fintech provides API support to Chime, Varo Money and other challenger banks.

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How BBVA picks its fintech partners

10/07/19

Susan French, head of product at BBVA Open Platform, discussed the bank's vetting of fintech partners and how it deals with the competitive threat that their products present.

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Data aggregators push back against notion they have a fraud problem

09/30/19

Fincen and others say third parties are proving to be treasure chests for crooks who create synthetic identities, but aggregators argue they help detect risk banks can’t see.

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What Charles Scharf’s Visa years say about his plan for payments at Wells

09/27/19

In the payments world, Scharf is best known as the CEO of Visa Inc. from 2012 to 2016, where his strategies for faster payments, fintech partnerships and other key issues may shed light on what Scharf has planned when he becomes CEO of Wells Fargo.

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U.K.'s Transferwise, once a rival to banks, launches with U.S. FIs

09/26/19

TransferWise once marketed itself as Robin Hood-style rival to banks. Now it sees itself as an ally.

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U.S. Bank embraces open banking with data-sharing agreements

09/24/19

The bank has developed APIs to feed customer data directly to seven fintechs and data aggregators, including MX and Finicity.

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