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Tandem Bank has unveiled a new second charge mortgage as part of its mission to become ‘the UK’s fairer, greener digital bank’. It has also revealed plans to launch ‘Greener in Tandem’, a series of initiatives and information to support customers understand their home’s current emissions, as well as what, where and how they can…

This year started with a considerable bang for open banking.  In light of this, Nikita Septucha, vice president of technical sales and implementations, Token, shares his thoughts on how to take open banking connectivity to a deeper level.  The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) announced there are now more than five million users of Open Banking-enabled…

The crypto hype train that began a few years ago continues to prove disbelievers wrong, as coins that have been around for years are now seeing huge increases in searches. Examining the search frequencies in over 170 countries using Google Trends, CasinoScores, the casino experts, has revealed which cryptos are the most up and coming…

Plaid, a global open finance data network and payments platform, has announced an expansion of its Payment Partner Ecosystem to include three new European partnerships – Primer, UniPaas and NoFrixion. As a result, more vendors and merchants can leverage open banking in order to improve operations and lower costs. Through these partnerships, Plaid embeds its…

Sumsub, a tech company that helps businesses stay compliant and fight digital fraud, has recently added document subtype recognition to its Proof of Address verification solution. Now user verification flows can be adjusted to specific regulatory requirements since companies can set different rules based on the type of the document submitted. Proof of address, or…

In April, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued a discussion paper titled “e-HKD: A policy and design perspective” (the “Paper”), inviting views from the public and the industry on key policy and design issues for introducing retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC), i.e. e-HKD, in Hong Kong. After announcing the “Fintech 2025” strategy in…

On this weeks episode of News & Views, The Fintech Times Podcast team speak about a warning issued by the FCA to Challenger Banks, The Great Resignation and how more work placed benefits could put a stop to it & how digital online spending is continuing to gain traction.

Banco Santander and Oxentia Foundation are seeking startups and scaleups with innovative and scalable solutions using blockchain technology for a new global challenge. The duo has produced ‘Santander X Global Challenge’, a new global challenge aimed at blockchain startups and scaleups from Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the US, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Poland, the UK and…

Western Union, a provider of cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments and Zain Cash, the award-winning mobile financial services arm of Zain – a mobile telecom operator in the Middle East- have announced the launch of Western Union digital money transfer services through the Zain Cash mobile wallet. The launch means that over 250,000 Zain…

FinGo, a biometric identity authentication solutions provider is introducing FinGoVend, the world’s first retail vending machine where users can now pay and prove their age through a simple scan of their finger. FinGo’s vein mapping technology connects a person’s unique vein pattern to their identity, to securely enable a range of transactions including payments, access…