I have read quite a lot on Open Banking over the last couple of years, what it means to the industry, the players and more importantly the consumer. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is required to be implemented in the UK by 13 January 2018.

This will definitely change the banking experience, bringing with it more competition and innovation in the sector, and a host of benefits for the consumer.

As of today, retail clients in Germany can use Prospery, a new digital platform that provides a comprehensive view of their current and potential assets, actively manages their investments and offers remote personal coaching at a fixed fee. 

The world is now closer and more connected than ever. Yet we still have a desire for the physical—items that you can hold and call your own.

Building on its commitment to deliver a suite of next-generation governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions to assist the global financial and corporate communities, Thomson Reuters has expanded further its Connected Risk platform to include a Model Risk Management (MRM) solution, allowing institutions to demonstrate a real-time understanding of their model risk landscape, with the ability to report on the model’s governance status, sign-offs and related issues from a single platform source.

PNC, a top-10 US bank by assets, is live on RTP, The Clearing House’s new US real-time payments system, using Finastra’s payment services hub, Fusion Payments. 

Moneythor, the financial technology company providing banks and fintech firms with a digital banking toolkit and data-driven personalisation engine, has been deployed by Orange Bank in its new all-in-one mobile banking service.

Citizens Bank today announced the launch of Zelle, to offer customers a fast, safe and easy way to make person-to-person (P2P) payments. 

Roostify, a provider of automated mortgage transaction technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) to integrate its platform with Black Knight’s LoanSphere Empower loan origination system (LOS). 

The WandX token sale is to close at midnight GMT on Tuesday, December 5 2017. WandX, a platform which allows users to create and trade any ERC20 Token entirely peer to peer, is India’s first token sale, and the first Ethereum Token (aka ERC20 Token) exchange to be launched in India.

India is increasingly seen as a hotbed of creative entrepreneurship and, with 65% of its population under the age of 35 and smartphone use growing rapidly, the country’s most ambitious young business people have the technology sector firmly in their sights, not least in relation to the blockchain.

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, relationship management and smart data analytics, has entered into a strategic partnership with Lowenstein and Associates^®, P.C. to automate the interface between loan origination and core systems by integrating its LenderLink^® solution with Baker Hill NextGen™.