HSBC has launched an Application Programming Interface (API) Developer Portal, providing customers with direct access to a suite of tools with which they can integrate the bank’s API solutions into their own products, as well as make use of a secure testing environment.

Yesterday, news broke that Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, announced that he was soon introducing legislation which would make the country the first sovereign state in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

Bahrain-based Islamic FinTech provider, IFIN, has launched the first of its kind, real economy, automated Islamic financing platform. The secure, innovative technology connects retailers and Islamic finance providers, enabling them to offer consumers instant access to Islamic financing for purchases, at the point of sale. 

• Klarna users can now shop using pay in 3 at any online retailer, regardless of whether they’re partnered with Klarna or not, directly from the app
• The new feature eliminates the need to use credit cards when shopping online, making high-interest APRs a thing of the past
• Additional features include personalised wish lists, price drop notifications, thousands of deals updated daily, monthly budgets and personal spending limits 

Temenos, the banking software company, has been listed as the only ‘Global Power Seller’ in Forrester’s prestigious Global Banking Platform Deals Survey 2021, with a 20% increase in new named deals  compared to previous year. Temenos was the only top 5 vendor to grow its number of deals in 2020. Temenos landed more new global banking deals than any other surveyed provider in 2020, as stated in the Forrester report.

Innovative payments ecosystem provider set to cut cost and timescale of cross border payments and FX

 A new report from Juniper Research has found sales of iPhones will bring in over $200 billion in 2022; nearly 40% of the total smartphone hardware market, despite representing less than 20% of devices sold that year.

Tonik, the Philippines' first digital-only neobank continues to make waves in the local fintech and banking industry as it secures a digital bank license from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) – the first for any private and purely digital bank in the country.  

Local and regional leaders from the UK and abroad will be meeting to discuss plans to achieve net zero at a key event attended by COP26 President Alok Sharma and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng

Today (5 June), World Environment Day, registration has opened for the International Net Zero Leadership conference taking place next month in the West Midlands.

The international event will bring together leaders from across the UK and worldwide, from government, industry and research, to discuss the climate challenge and how best to achieve net zero.