The recommendations published today by the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee (JROC) are an extremely positive milestone for Open banking in the UK. They both recognise the dramatic success of Open Banking to date and outline a vision to ensure the continuation of the UK’s global leadership in this area.

Robin Morris-Weston has joined award-winning digital financial crime platform 

Leading SME funding provider Reward Finance Group has restructured its client relationship operations across its key UK regional divisions, by promoting Chris Ibbetson and Paula Jones to head them up.

STICPAY, a leading global e-wallet service provider and payment gateway, has acquired two new financial services licences that enables it to extend its services to clients across more than 200 countries.

 Financial solutions provider, Novuna Business Finance, has generated an increase in £4m revenue in under one year through onboarding new car dealership customers since it started using a workflow automation platform provided by Workato.  

Education lender, Knoma, has selected Fuse by Pave as its Open Banking partner, to enable it to improve decision-making on applications from borrowers seeking education finance.

Ecospend, the UK’s leading Open Banking technology provider recently acquired by Trustly, today announces the appointment of Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond MBE, as an adviser to support the company as it grows in the UK and overseas.

The Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA), the legal and tax arm of the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), a leading onshore financial and business centre in the region, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SettleMint NV, a trusted blockchain technology platform, to collaborate on blockchain and digital asset initiatives in the financial industry.

Intergiro, a Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform, has partnered with financial service provider Incharge to launch a new banking app designed to make financial services easier and more accessible for students in Europe. The Incharge app is free of charge and will offer students the convenience of managing their finances from their smartphones.