Headless ecommerce is confirmed as a core digital technology now and for the future. Profound partner and next-generation commerce platform commercetools is awarded 'Leader' status in The 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce published this week. The report shows commercetools’ recognition advance from visionary to leader, cementing headless ecommerce's status as the technology for today and tomorrow's world.  

Venio has launched with a timely and relevant, post COVID-19 solution for getting consumers and merchants back to business in the Philippines.

CaixaBank, Spain’s leading retail bank, now has more than two million customers who sign online, web and mobile banking transactions on their smartphone, using the CaixaBank Sign application.

This figure has doubled compared to October 2019, when it hit one million customers using the bank's digital signature application. The growth in the use of this application has accelerated since the declaration of the state of emergency due to the epidemic outbreak of COVID-19.

After a successful pilot run with select Fintechs in early 2020, the Pan-African Banking Sandbox of Ecobank Group is now live and acessible, on request, to the African Fintech community. The Sandbox allows Fintechs to access Ecobank’s Application Programming Interface (APIs) for the development of innovative solutions.

The Sandbox is a major milestone for the Ecobank Group on it’s Open Banking strategy and it will accelerate partnership with Fintechs and other Partners across Africa.

NatWest customers are now able to see enhanced credit score information, in partnership with information and insights provider TransUnion, after the leading bank introduced credit score factors to its successful app-based ‘Credit Score’ tool.
 

Mexico-based neobank Flink today announced a partnership with DriveWealth, LLC, a U.S.-based leader in global digital trading technology, to add access to the U.S. equities market to their platform. Leveraging DriveWealth’s real-time fractional share trading technology and API-enabled brokerage infrastructure, Flink customers will be able to invest in U.S. stocks with as little as 30 pesos directly funded from the Flink platform.
 

Finastra has helped VPBank separate its treasury operations from its legacy core banking system with Finastra’s Fusion Kondor and Fusion Risk solutions. Delivered through Finastra’s Fusion Adopt imp

Omnio, the Banking as a Service platform Fintech, has announced that its Credit Union business KESHO has partnered with Credit Union Financial Analytics (CUFA), the leading analytics company for managers and trustees of credit unions (CUs). This partnership is a strategic move by Omnio and demonstrates its commitment to the Credit Union sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.  It provides a substantial upgrade to the analytical tools available to the Credit Union sector through its Curtains platform. 

sync., a UK money management app innovating the Open Banking space and aiming to make money management beautiful, simple and accessible to everyone, has officially announced their partnership with ComplyAdvantage.

Growth across the FinTech sector has led to increased competition and innovation in financial services, resulting in a rise of disruptive companies like sync., leading the way in Open Banking.