Millions of customers are set to benefit from simpler and more secure payments as leading open banking platform provider Token.io Limited makes history by becoming the first licensed Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) to conduct an end-to-end payment through a public bank API.
The payment of £4.99 at 18:39 on Friday 1st June 2018, confirmed as the first of its kind by UK Open Banking (the Open Banking Implementation Entity), fires the starting gun on the new age of API banking in Europe, driven by the recent introduction of PSD2.