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. 

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transaction services, has today announced that it has signed up to the Business in the Community (BITC) Race at Work Charter, an initiative designed in partnership with the Government to improve outcomes for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees in the UK.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, invites North American financial institutions of all sizes to attend Temenos Synergy Online taking place on 23 September. This year, the event will be hosted digitally, bringing the best and brightest minds together for a day of collaboration and diving into the future of banking technology with a focus on innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud.

Tinkoff has become the leader among Russian banks in terms of customer loyalty as evidenced by a banking market survey conducted by Romir, Russia’s largest private holding that specializes on marketing, media and socio-economic research and represents Gallup International in the country.

UK credit card provider Vanquis Bank, a subsidiary of Provident Financial plc, has today announced the launch of NatWest’s new open banking payment solution, Payit, within its mobile app, allowing Vanquis customers to make instant payments to their account without the use of a debit card.