Tagged: vrps

London’s Yonder, GoCardless Enable Variable Recurring Payments and Direct Debit Functionality

Yonder, the modern rewards credit card, has extended its relationship with GoCardless, the bank payment company, by “adding Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) alongside the Direct Debit functionality it uses already.” Via GoCardless’ Instant Bank Pay, Yonder cardholders, or ‘members’, can now use VRPs to instantly… Read More

Huw Davies: CCO at Ozone API Explains How Variable Recurring Payments Could Create Two-Tier Market

We recently caught up with Huw Davies, Chief Commercial Officer, Ozone API, which has been involved in the development of Open Banking from the very beginning. Ozone API started by developing the sandbox and reference implementation for the UK Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) –… Read More

The Credit Thing Now Live with Fintech TrueLayer’s Open Banking Recurring Payments

TrueLayer, which claims to be one of Europe’s “leading” open banking platforms, recently announced that The Credit Thing has successfully “implemented its recurring payments API and made the first consumer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) transactions in the UK.” The Competition and Markets Authority has mandated… Read More

Open Banking Payments Fintech Token Finalizes $40M Raise

Token, an Open Banking platform supporting the transition from card to account-to-account bank payments across Europe, has acquired $40 million via a Series C round that was co-led by Cota Capital and TempoCap. Element Ventures, MissionOG, PostFinance and existing investors Octopus Ventures, Opera Tech Ventures… Read More

UK’s NatWest Group to Offer Variable Recurring Payments

NatWest Group has entered agreements with three payment providers – TrueLayer, GoCardless and Crezco – in order to offer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) as “a new and convenient payment option for businesses and consumers.” This “industry first” means that NatWest Group will be the first… Read More

Ozone API Introduces “Beyond Compliance” Open Banking Solutions

Ozone API, the developer of the standards-based software for open banking and open finance, has introduced a suite of solutions that “enable banks to move beyond compliance and convert their APIs into more strategic and commercial channels.” The enhancements to Ozone’s open API platform “give… Read More

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority Offers Clarification on Definition of VRPs for Sweeping

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority has clarified what may and may not be used for when it is introduced later in 2022. The CMA mandated the use of Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) as the mechanism for implementing Sweeping – which is described as… Read More

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