FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 2 September 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Yolt
ING to shut down Yolt’s open banking operations
ING says it evaluated all options and concluded it is “not feasible to achieve its ambitions with Yolt”.
Yolt shuts down app to focus on open banking technology services
The Yolt app has more than 1.6 million downloads.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winner: Yolt – Best Mobile Initiative
Yolt’s new mobile app: nudge techniques, open banking and smarter personal finance.
Yolt Technology Services lands UK PSD2 licence
The fintech will no longer rely on ING’s licence.
Yolt to launch Mastercard debit card through PPS partnership
Money management app takes a deeper step into the payments sphere.
How banks can be supported to achieve full open banking adoption
Choosing a partner to move forward with can be difficult.
ING appoints ex-Google and Confused.com exec as Yolt CEO
Weng Kan led Google’s attempt to edge into the insurance market in 2015.
Making a case for payment initiation services (PIS)
It’s a cheaper, faster & more secure method for online payments, so why aren’t PIS being more widely used?
Leon Muis of YTS: “Open banking paves the way for open finance & open data”
Yolt’s chief business officer unpacks his thoughts on Brexit & the future of finance.
ING-backed Yolt app plugs into American Express
YTS said it was processing 14 million API calls on average per week.
FinovateEurope: Key takeaways
Sharon Kimathi and Ruby Hinchliffe explore the event’s top five themes.
FinovateEurope: Yolt chief exec muses API quality determining account switches
This would be “a nice end point for open banking”, he says.
Yolt gets closer to all-in-one banking app with Raisin
Yolt’s UK, France and Italy-based users can now open a Raisin account.
PayExpo 2019: Europe will catch the UK’s open banking lead up in a year, says Danske Bank
Danske says the European landscape lends to more unique businesses.
Yolt signs partners and prepares for wider roll-out
Yolt is also partnering with Payvision and Funding Options, both of which also have ties to ING.
Yolt tests out payments with UK banks
ING-backed money app on a high on the high street.
Money app Yolt launches open beta in Italy and France
Early bird users get it to a lovely place.
Interview: Roderick Simons, CTO of Yolt
What is it like to build a smart thinking money app from the ground up?
Yolt cosies up to Anorak’s life insurance advice
Anorak follows in the path of Runpath and Moneytis.
ING pushes for open banking with SME financing platform and Yolt expansion
ING is leveraging open banking and making their SME and retail offer more attractive than ever across Europe
Moneyhub integrates with Monzo and Starling; Yolt reaches customer milestone
Integration galore – it’s all about open banking.
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Starling Bank bolts to Yolt money app
Yolt, the money app backed by ING, has integrated with its first digital challenger bank, Starling Bank. Yolt says its aggregation functionality now enables Yolt users to view their Starling Bank account details and transactions alongside their other bank accounts, together in one place. Since launching in June 2017, Yolt states that its users have […]
ING’s Yolt money app beta launches in UK
With an intended jolt and volt of energy, Yolt, a new money platform backed by ING, has launched its open beta for iOS and Android in the UK. The app has been tested in closed beta since October last year, and is now ready to invite more people to the platform. Yolt enables users to […]
