Ecospend news and trends

Open Banking Platform Consolidation Leads to Broader EU Customer Reach
Acquisitions // January 31, 2023

After years of consolidation, Europe’s largest open banking players now cover much of the continent. Over the years, the continent’s open banking companies have expanded their reach and entered new markets by snapping up smaller rivals. At the same time, established payment players have acquired...

Trustly Completes Ecospend Acquisition to Grow Open Banking in UK
Acquisitions // January 27, 2023

Trustly has closed its acquisition of Ecospend to grow its offerings in the United Kingdom. The acquisition brings together Trustly’s global payments platform for digital account-to-account (A2A) transactions and Ecospend’s payment initiation services and data services, Trustly said in a Friday (Jan. 27) press release....

EMEA Daily: Worldline Enables Indian Payment Methods RuPay and UPI in Europe
International // October 11, 2022

Today in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) news, Worldline partners with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to expand the acceptance of Indian payment methods across Europe. Plus, B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Hokodo launches a Shopify integration for merchants....

UK FinTech Ecospend, Car Repair Payment Platform Bumper Team on A2A Payments
Payment Methods // October 10, 2022

Open banking payment provider Ecospend has launched a new marketplace payment solution for car repair-focused BNPL platform Bumper that will help connect customers with car dealers, a press release said. Because of partnering with Ecospend, payments will be able to be split between Bumper and...

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Trustly Completes Ecospend Acquisition to Grow Open Banking in UK

January 27, 2023
Trustly has closed its acquisition of Ecospend to grow its offerings in the United Kingdom. The acquisition brings together Trustly’s global payments platform for digital account-to-account (A2A) transactions and Ecospend’s payment initiation services and data services, Trustly said in a Friday (Jan. 27) press release. “This is an important milestone and is fully in line […]

UK FinTech Ecospend, Car Repair Payment Platform Bumper Team on A2A Payments

October 10, 2022
Open banking payment provider Ecospend has launched a new marketplace payment solution for car repair-focused BNPL platform Bumper that will help connect customers with car dealers, a press release said....

Trustly Acquires Ecospend

May 30, 2022
Global pay platform Trustly, which works on account-to-account (A2A) transactions, has bought open banking platform Ecospend as a way for Trustly to breach a huge market for its services in...

EMEA Daily: Strauss & Co. Hosts NFT Auction for Fine Wines; Apple Faces More EU...

April 11, 2022
In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, South African auction house Strauss & Co. will offer fine wine non-fungible tokens to the highest bidders, and Apple is facing...