Opentech has leveraged Mastercard Send APIs to offer a new solution, OpenPay Send, that will give financial institutions across Europe powerful money transfer capabilities.

“Opentech’s mission is to be the enabler of digital payments for banks, leveraging state-of-the-art infrastructures to build highly reliable and flexible solutions, ready to be deployed to the end user,” Opentech CEO Stefano Andreani said. “The partnership with Mastercard and the integration with their worldwide network is a perfect fit to our strategy, bringing a great value and convenience to our customers.” Andreani called OpenPay Send “an important addition to our offering.”

OpenPay Send will also enable firms to offer a broad range of services – from remittance and micropayments to insurance claim distribution and real-time P2P payments. Available via a single integration, the solution helps institutions transfer money to more than 100 corridors – including as many as three billion bank accounts – as well as mobile wallets, payment cards, and cash-out locations worldwide.

The new technology gives banks and other FIs the flexibility to tailor its offering, specifying which countries and sending channels to be activated, and at what costs. OpenPay Send also features a customizable UI for both mobile and web, as well as an administrative portal. Opentech will demo OpenPay Send later this month at FinovateEurope in Berlin, Germany.

Mastercard’s Arne Pache, VP of Digital Payments and Labs, praised the collaboration as an example of how the Mastercard Send platform improves the process of global money transfer. “(We) designed the Mastercard Send platform envisioning a better, faster, and smarter way to send money all over the world in multiple ways by leveraging our expertise and the existing relationships with our customers.” Pache added that the partnership with Opentech and launch of OpenPay Send “brings this vision to life.”

Opentech demonstrated its white-label mobile app, OpenPay for Business, at FinovateEurope 2018. The company is headquartered in both Italy and Switzerland.

Here is our weekly roundup of the latest news from our Finovate alumni:

• BBVA’s Holvi to expand to the U.K.
• Cloud 9 partners with Green Key Technologies to enable more efficient and secure extraction of voice trading data.
• Blackhawk Network sets up development center in India, reveals plans to hire 200.
• Lighter Capital promotes Joe Silver to Chief Financial Officer.
• SparkPost announces new features for its Receipt Validation tool.
• Pensions administrator TKP teams up with Ohpen.
• Credit Agricole nabs majority stake in Linxo.
• ID R&D’s new release of IDVoice v.2.11 includes key performance enhancements.
• Tink launches in France.
• Revolut offers free airport lounge access to users if their flight is delayed by more than one hour.
• Billtrust’s Business Payments Network is now integrated with Corporate Spending Innovations to enable their customers to automate supplier payment delivery.
• Voleo taps Glen Wilson as its interim CEO. Company founder Thomas Beattie will remain as Voleo CCO.
• Xignite now available in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Jack Henry launches core-agnostic banking platform.
• DefenseStorm reports zero attrition and 50% customer growth in 2019.
• FIS partners with alternative SMB funding company LiberisFinance.
• Pacific Service Credit Union selects Digital Onboarding to enhance member onboarding.
• Quid merges with social media analytics company NetBase.
• ndgit and Konsentus partner for PSD2 compliance. This week, ndgit also released version 2 of its API platform.
• Arxan Technologies recorded 30% subscription growth in 2019.
• Upgrade Pack raises $5 million in seed round.

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