2023年5月3日

Brankas,开放银行启动对东南亚市场,进入新的一年2000万美元的系列b的资金是由标志的企业合作伙伴,参与投资者Beenext返回和Integra伙伴。其他支持者包括签证(Brankas是2021加速器项目)的成员,二自由度陀螺仪国际合作伙伴和财政部领导的风险资本公司fintech退伍军人包括杰夫•Cruttenden橡子的创始人之一和以利Broverman,改良的联合创始人,还投资了。Brankas”平台提供的超过10“banking-as-a-service”嵌入api,包括开放的在线银行账户,信用评分、身份验证、电子商务交易和演出经济支付。Brankas成立于2016年,目标是“民主化对金融和身份数据的访问。“客户包括传统金融机构、银行和fintech初创公司。Brankas说看到API使用环比增长30%,现在被40多个银行企业客户和渠道合作伙伴和100年。因为许多fintech客户关注的“无银行账户者”的人,或那些没有传统的银行帐户或信用卡,Brankas合作伙伴包括金融供应商汇款公司和电子钱包。此后,Brankas联合创始人兼首席执行官托德·施韦策和参谋长巴拉萨勃拉曼尼亚告诉TechCrunch在一封电子邮件中说,这是“积极建设新产品在大流行期间,看到伟大的吸收在当前操作市场印尼、菲律宾、泰国和新加坡。“例如,其中包括四个新支付产品——直接、account-to-account银行转帐;直接从账户汇款支付;中小企业收集付款支付,没有代码解决方案;IPG,为企业客户为大型金融机构创建一个平台收集代表商人支付。 In terms of data, Brankas developed four new APIS — Statement, for retail and corporate transaction retrievals; Balance, to let people view their current and average account balances; Income, which uses machine learning to identify individual income or salary; and Telco, to allow clients access to users’ telecom data. Since its Series A in 2019, Subramanian said Brankas has witnessed more regulator support for open finance, because they see it as an enabler to financial inclusion and greater customer choice. Its also seen more “banking-as-a-service” products, or bank products like savings accounts, cards and loans offered as “embedded finance” on third-party apps, including e-commerce, SME account management and HR and payroll software. As a result of increasing adoption, he said that “large multinational financial service providers like Visa are embracing open finance, even if it may threaten their legacy business in the short term.” Open finance has also been adopted by the mainstream cryptocurrency community, he added, thanks to increasing demand for “tradefi” products to complement crypto earnings. Brankas new funding will be used to build new APIs and double its current team of 100. It also plans to add more capabilities to its payments, data and banking-as-a-service API product menu in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. It will also announce partnerships with digital banks and fintech companies in Vietnam and Bangladesh, two new markets where Brankas will go live early this year. Brankas also plans to deepen the capabilities of its payments, data and banking-as-a-service API product menu in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. They will also announce partnerships with digital banks and fintech leaders in Vietnam soon and Bangladesh, going live early this year. Other open finance API startups in Southeast Asia include Finantier and Finverse . Subramanian said Brankas’ differentiators include its regional coverage and being the only company to offer regulated payments APIs enabling direct bank transfers and remittances without a middleman, as well as cryptocurrency payment and wallet linking APIs. He also said that through Visa, Brankas enables open finance for all Visa partner banks in the region and is currently developing new solutions for payments, identity and data analytics. In a statement about its investment in Brankas, Insignia Ventures Partners principal Samir Chaibi, said, “We have also been impressed by Brankas’ approach to market development and their ability to launch and scale their products in a regulatory compliant manner while ensuring that developers benefit from a reliable and stable source of banking and financial data and beyond.”