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FCA 90-day rule change ‘huge win’ for Open Banking industry

The UK regulator announced the alterations to the 90-day authentication rule following a consultation in which respondents called it “onerous” and reported “high customer dropout rates” as a result.

Open Banking Exchange Ukraine launches

The Open Banking Exchange team will work closely with Sigma Software Group, as well as the Ukrainian Interbank Payment Systems Member Association and the National Bank of Ukraine, to kickstart Open Banking in the country.

Beyond Bank chooses Frollo’s CDR gateway for Open Banking

Builds on existing relationship between the two companies, with Australia’s Beyond Bank already using Frollo’s PFM platform to launch a financial wellbeing app.

Insight: How fintech is facilitating the future world of work

A new report finds a third of businesses are crying out for freelancers – but can’t pay them on time. Sonovate’s Richard Prime explains which fintech trends are helping businesses to accommodate the rising freelance demographic.

Canadian SMEs need convincing about Open Banking

Delegates at Open Banking Expo Canada heard from speakers at the last panel of the Confex that small businesses are sceptical about data sharing and will need the fintech community to ‘communicate the benefits’.

Allica Bank secures £110m in Series B funding round

Atalaya Capital Management led the investment, with Warwick Capital Partners, Allica Bank’s majority shareholder.

Landsbankinn teams up with Salt Edge to comply with PSD2

The Icelandic bank has chosen Salt Edge’s PSD2 compliance solution and has opened a sandbox, hosted by Salt Edge, for fintechs.

Weavr teams up with Germany’s finway

The fintechs have partnered to be able to issue physical and virtual cards for SMEs.

Tide opens platform to non-account holder SMEs

The Open Access move aims to introduce competition to the market, using Open Banking to make its range of finance and admin products on the Tide platform available to businesses, without them having to open a Tide business account.

Allica Bank buys SME lending portfolio from AIB

The deal will see the challenger bank acquire around 2,000 SME borrowers from AIB Group, which is exiting the UK SME market, and brings forward its target profitability date to mid-2022.

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