·       Currensea, which offers the UK’s first open banking-enabled direct debit travel card, launches its ‘powered-by’ programme, allowing charities and businesses to offer custom branded cards which allow people to allocate savings made on foreign exchange charges to a specific purpose.

·       The Currensea card uses open banking to allow travellers to make overseas transactions directly from funds in their current account, whilst avoiding high bank fees and saving at least 85% on every transaction.

Cabital, a leading digital assets institution, today announced that it seeks to apply for formal approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the Payment Services Act 2019 to provide digital payment token services as a Major Payment Institution.

CryptoCompare, the leading digital asset market data and index provider, has received authorisation from the 

Northern Bank Ltd, trading as Danske Bank UK is announcing that it has partnered up with the European open banking platform, Aiia (recently acquired by Mastercard) to deliver innovative digital solutions to help its more than 20.000 business and corporate customers through its business banking platform, District.

eIDAS certificates have an important role under PSD2. Their usage is mandatory for ensuring that data is kept secure and within trusted parties at all times. These certificates issued by QTSPs can be associated with passports with which TPPs identify themselves when onboarding with and accessing banks’ channels.

Circuit Breaker enables merchants to intelligently block suspicious transactions – and the fraudsters behind them

Today, we’re hugely excited to launch Circuit Breaker – the first fraud prevention solution developed exclusively for the open banking space.

Tinkoff Capital has set up three new exchange-traded funds (ETFs): the Tinkoff ESG Leaders Fund, the Tinkoff Cybersecurity Fund and Tinkoff Emerging Markets Fund. The new ETFs facilitate investments in companies operating in segments that are enjoying strong growth: cybersecurity services and ESG leaders as well as the most promising industries in developing countries.

Many companies included in the funds are not available to unqualified investors.

illimity Bank S.p.A. is on “Accelera con  Amazon”, the free-of-charge training programme for Italian SMEs promoted by Amazon and a  limited group of entities involved in supporting the transition to digital, with the aim of providing  business owners with the tools and expertise needed for anyone seeking to launch or further  develop their online activity at a national and international level. 

New research by global fintech think tank findexable shows that 1.5% (16) of 1,032 best-funded private fintech firms globally are founded solely by women and receive just 1% of total fintech venture funding.  The Fintech Diversity Radar research reveals women make up 11% of all board members and 19% of company executives. The majority of women (26%) in the sector are Chief People Officer or Head of HR, followed by Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer.