The strategic partnership will see Plaid’s PIS embedded into Currencycloud’s platform, meaning customers can fund their accounts without ever leaving the platform.
The partnership will ‘power a bold new Open Banking offering’, by giving more than 600 enterprise-level merchants globally access to Volt’s open payments infrastructure.
The neobank, which plans to take on 1,000 employees in the areas of product, technology and cybersecurity, has agreed with the German regulator to ‘temporarily onboard’ 50,000 to 70,000 customers per month.
The payments automation platform is now valued at $425m and has plans to triple headcount by the end of 2022.
Previously, Banfico had been operating in Brazil via a partnership with the Brazilian payments system, CIP.
Experts from across the payments ecosystem, including Token CEO Todd Clyde, will debate this, as well as other questions, on the payments stage at this year’s Open Banking Expo UK in London.
Social media giants have been infiltrating the payments market but they will have to overcome a number of challenges if they want to establish a strong foothold in the market, writes ConnectPay’s Simas Simanauskas.
The Nordic bank’s investment through SEB Venture Capital follows a period of testing and implementation of Roaring’s technology into SEB’s innovation studio SEBx.
A panel debate, with representatives from OBIE and TrueLayer, will address this and many more questions about VRPs and sweeping at Open Banking Expo UK on 4 November in London.
The partnership between the financial API platform and the fintech accelerator will help financial institutions leverage Open Banking opportunities.
