Open banking stories

Temenos forum in Copenhagen to draw 1,000 banking executives as AI, cybersecurity and legacy system upgrades dominate the agenda.

Paymentology launches in Australia with Cuscal and Constantinople alliances, tapping the nation's fast-growing digital payments market and domestic rails.

Backbase and Ninth Wave have teamed up to let banks plug corporate clients' ERP and accounting systems straight into account data and payments.

Wise posts higher transfer volumes and customer balances as it targets a Nasdaq primary listing in May 2026 while keeping London.

RMS adds direct bank payments through GoCardless as Australian hotels brace for Reserve Bank reforms that could ban card surcharges and lift merchant costs.

Bolt Group snaps up Beem app from Australian Payments Plus as the operator refocuses on payments infrastructure and identity rails.

FinTech Australia has named Xero policy chief Grace Gown to its board as the industry body steps up its push for fintech-friendly regulation.

Data quality gives banks a scalable route to digital trust, cutting fraud and false positives while speeding onboarding, KYB and AI-driven checks.

Plaid builds a foundation model to improve transaction analysis, lifting income classification and loan payment detection across financial services.

Paysecure and Yaspa team up to add open banking, fraud controls and account-to-account payments to merchants' checkout flows.

Personetics and Atomic team up to let banks prompt deposit and bill switching inside apps, aiming to cut friction and boost primary relationships.

OpenFX secures USD $94 million to scale real-time cross-border payments, after growing annual volumes to more than USD $45 billion and adding 100-plus clients.

Thunes wins Juniper Research top-three nod for cross-border payments as network breadth, interoperability and stablecoin links reshape the market.

Digital wallets still lead Asia-Pacific payments, but account-to-account rails are rising fast in Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore, Global Payments says.

Nium unveils a stablecoin card issuance platform that lets businesses spend digital dollar balances via Visa and Mastercard through one API.

OpenID Foundation appoints Kantara Initiative to oversee testing service applicants as it expands independent assurance for digital identity standards.

Visa rolls out enhanced Subscription Manager for issuers, letting banks offer in-app controls for recurring payments as subscription spending surges.

Mobile money transactions topped USD $2 trillion in 2025 as global use surged, led by Sub-Saharan Africa but with growth across all regions.

Solana unveils an API-based developer platform for banks and payment firms, backed by Mastercard, Worldpay and Western Union pilots.

Revolut posts record 2025 results as Australian users shift from travel spending to everyday banking, driving surging local profits.