NORD.Investments, Mastercard Team on Open Banking

Mastercard firm Aiia is collaborating with NORD.Investments to permit extra open banking funds in Denmark’s largest impartial digital funding advisor platform, a press release from Mastercard stated.

The prospects for NORD.Investments have seen challenges whereas including funds to the funding platform, with the method involving going by way of the net financial institution and manually coming into funding account particulars to maneuver cash.

Through Mastercard’s open banking community, NORD.Investments will facilitate prospects’ account-to-account funds in a single unifying funding platform, making it faster and simpler and slicing down the potential for errors.

“Before we partnered with Mastercard, it was less convenient for our users to invest, as they would have to do this through their online bank,” stated Anders Hartmann, CEO & Co-Founder of NORD.Investments. “Now we’re able to offer everything on our own platform, making it significantly easier for people to get started with their investment plans. We’re happy to see this collaboration take shape and expect more of our users to add funds to their account as a result. With open banking payments in place, we can truly say that we’re the easiest investment platform to use.”

Meanwhile, Jonas Vogt Rasmussen, VP of Banking Sales with Mastercard, has stated the corporate is seeking to “make it a convenient experience for investors to easily and securely add funds to their investment account through open banking payments directly in the NORD.Investments platform.”

“This encourages more users to add funds to the investment platforms and allows NORD.investments to grow their business – the future possibilities are many,” he stated.

Paytrail, a Finnish on-line cost firm, has additionally partnered with Mastercard and Aiia to facilitate open banking, PYMNTS wrote.

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