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June 3, 2025
Deutsche Bank and Mastercard Partner to Power Merchant Solutions With Open Banking Payments
Mastercard
“Deutsche Bank and Mastercard are proud to announce a strategic partnership designed to accelerate the evolution of open banking and redefine the payment experience for merchants and consumers across Europe. The collaboration will elevate Deutsche Bank’s Merchant Solutions offering, particularly its Request to Pay (R2P) service, by introducing new levels of choice, flexibility, and efficiency […]
May 29, 2025
Will Consumers Accept Open Banking? A Global Perspective
Nacha
“Open banking has a lot of moving parts, but at the end of the day, it might well come down to two words: consumer acceptance. “In the U.S., it does seem that consumers are willing to engage in open banking to initiate payments, to link a bank account, to do things like a digital wallet […]
May 28, 2025
Tink, Adyen Partner to Bring Pay by Bank to Vodafone Customers in Germany
Open Banking Expo
“Tink, A Visa Solution, and Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, have announced a partnership with Vodafone, a leading telecoms company, to offer their customers in Germany the option to pay their prepaid tariff and outstanding post-paid balances using Pay by Bank.”
May 6, 2025
CFPB Plans to Revisit Open Banking Rule Despite Staff Cuts
Bloomberg Law
“The Trump administration is poised to reopen a Biden-era rule allowing customers to share their sensitive bank data with third-party fintechs and potentially vacate it, according to multiple sources. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is leaning toward reworking its open banking rule, which allows customers to share their deposit account and credit card information with fintechs, […]
Firms Agree to Fund Efforts to Create New Company to Deliver the Initial Phase of Work for Commercial Variable Recurring Payments
Open Banking
“A total of 31 organisations from across the open banking and payments industries have committed to fund initial efforts to create a new company that will carry forward work to establish cVRPs on a viable commercial footing, delivering competition, innovation and consumer choice in the payments landscape, all of which are key aims of the […]
April 23, 2025
Haboo Money Teams up With Griffin to Launch ‘Save-As-You-Repay’ Wallet
Open Banking Expo
“UK fintech haboo money has partnered with bank for fintechs Griffin to offer a “save-as-you-repay” wallet designed to give borrowers more control and flexibility over loan repayments, through the use of variable recurring payments (VRP) and behavioural “nudges”. The new save-as-you-pay wallet from haboo provides borrowers with flexible repayment options, by replacing direct debits with […]
April 22, 2025
VantageScore Expands New Open-Banking Credit Score for Lending to Underserved Borrowers
VantageScore
“VantageScore announced the expansion of their groundbreaking VantageScore 4plus pilot program for lenders launched in partnership with Credit Builders Alliance. The pilot leverages the industry leading VantageScore 4.0 credit score with open banking data to deliver the new VantageScore 4plus credit score model.”
April 4, 2025
Pizza Brand Papa Johns Partners With Truelayer To Offer Pay by Bank
Open Banking Expo
“Pizza brand Papa Johns has chosen European Pay by Bank network TrueLayer to rollout Pay by Bank as a payment method for its UK customers, enabling them to pay directly from their bank accounts. The introduction of Pay by Bank, using TrueLayer’s Open Banking technology, removes the need for Papa Johns’ customers to enter card […]
March 27, 2025
Cutting Chargebacks to (Almost) Zero on Online Payments
Atoa
“In the bustling world of online payments, chargebacks have been a persistent pain for businesses. These payment reversals—when a customer disputes a charge—can lead to lost revenue, endless admin, and major headaches. But thanks to open banking and Payment Initiation Services (PIS), the idea of “zero chargebacks” is quickly becoming more than just wishful thinking.”
March 21, 2025
Tink Hits 10,000 Merchant Milestone for Open Banking Payments
Tink
“We are excited to announced that 10,000 merchants have now chosen Pay by Bank via our Payment Service Provider (PSP) partnerships. Tink also recently hit a new €100M peak in a single day for its payment initiation services (PIS) across Europe, marking a tipping point in demand for Pay by Bank.”
March 17, 2025
Mastercard Open Banking Collaborates With Virgin Money on Account Aggregation
Open Banking Expo
“A new partnership between UK-based Virgin Money and Mastercard will enable the bank’s customers to view their credit card and current account balances and transactions from other banks in one place on the Virgin Money Credit Card app. Mastercard’s Open Banking technology is behind the account aggregation solution, which is designed to make it easier […]
March 14, 2025
Open Banking 2025 Thoughts & Trends
Finicity
“As we head into the new year, we are highlighting a few topics that are top of mind for Mastercard Open Banking, and how we see the Open Banking landscape evolving over the next 12-24 months.”
February 28, 2025
OneKey Payments Launches First Pix Using Biometrics for ‘Bets’ in Brazil
Games Brazil
“OneKey is introducing Pix using biometrics in partnership with Belvo, a leader in Open Finance integrations in Latin America, to help companies recover conversion rates and cost-benefits that may have been impacted by the new regulations. This is the first technology that allows payments via open banking using facial recognition, offering a safer, faster and […]
February 19, 2025
Canadians Divided on ‘Appeal’ of Pay by Bank, Says Payments Canada
Open Banking Expo
A study by Payments Canada has found that Pay by Bank “appeals” to fewer than one-third of Canadians, with its appeal increasing among newcomers to the country and gig workers.
February 7, 2025
Open Banking 2025 Thoughts & Trends
Finicity
“As we head into the new year, we are highlighting a few topics that are top of mind for Mastercard Open Banking, and how we see the Open Banking landscape evolving over the next 12-24 months.”
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