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Inside the Bank of APIs: NatWest and the Evolution of Open Banking

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Since Open Banking launched on January 18, 2018, banks have made a suite of mandatory APIs available to TPPs. Our first reaction to observing this opportunity was to consider if and how we could persuade the regulator to push banks to make more APIs available. NatWest has been working to solve this puzzle for several years.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Never mind the people who start rummaging around in their purse or wallet to pull out their cards after stepping up to the checkout counter. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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Data Dive: Up-And-Down Edition

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The new version of bitcoin proposed by one large, powerful faction of users would theoretically be faster and trade more easily. 19), the price of bitcoin was just shy of $7,800 per coin, with experts predicting that hitting “$8,000 seems in the cards.” Bitcoin’s Wild Ride . As of the time of this story (Nov.

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Bypass CEO: Dining’s Big Digital Disruption

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The entire segment, he noted, is ripe for technological innovations and improvements, and the restaurateurs of 2018 know that. There are middleware solutions that can help, Lloyd explained, but that gets expensive for merchants that find themselves paying $10,000 per year, per location, just to run software. The Legacy POS Problem.