Ivy raises $20M to take openbanking payments international | TechCrunch

News Summary
- We believe that 10 years from now there will be a single point of contact in open banking, just as Visa has created for card payments.
- “The key insight we had was that open banking is going global, but the technology is very domestic,” Ferdinand Dabitz, Ivy’s CEO, said in an interview.
- The platform currently services EMEA, Southeast Asia, the U.S. and soon Latin American markets that are getting open banking off the ground.
- )Banks are signed on to Ivy for free and they are not technically its customers — merchants who integrate its API are: they pay fees to Ivy on a sliding scale dependent on the volume of transactions.
- Dabitz says that Ivy currently has some 5,000 banks across 50 geographies, covering a footprint of 500 million bank accounts in total, integrated with its platform.
- Hence, partnerships — deals that represent potentially very big revenue funnels for a company like Ivy.
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