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Qippay Raises NZ$5M for 25% Stake in Open Banking Push

New Zealand fintech Qippay has raised NZ$5 million, giving investors a 25% equity stake, to expand its open banking payments infrastructure as domestic adoption continues to develop.

12 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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TrueLayer Raises $27M to Scale Pay-by-Bank in Europe

TrueLayer has secured $27 million, led by CDP Venture Capital, to expand its open banking pay-by-bank technology across Europe, bringing total funding to $348.8 million.

9 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Trustly Secures $40M+ Equity Commitment for Open Banking Growth

Trustly has secured signed equity commitment letters worth more than $40 million from existing backers Nordic Capital and Alfvén & Didrikson to fund expansion of its account-to-account payments business.

6 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Sagehaven Selects Nymbus for Core Banking Platform

Newly proposed digital bank Sagehaven has chosen Nymbus's cloud-based core banking platform to handle account management and transaction processing ahead of its launch.

13 Sept 2026 · 2 min read

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Flywire, Trustly Expand Open Banking Payments in US and Canada

Flywire has broadened its Trustly partnership to bring open banking payments to the US and Canada, letting payers authorise large domestic and cross-border transfers directly from their bank accounts in local currency.

13 Sept 2026 · 2 min read

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Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter, Expanding Into AI Infrastructure

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model-routing platform, extending its reach from payments processing into AI application infrastructure.

7 Sept 2026 · 2 min read

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