Finqware, an European fintech startup based in Bucharest, announced that it received from the National Bank of Romania the payment institution license to act as a regulated account information and payment initiation service provider.
„Using the passporting procedure, the company can be able to operate in all 27 EU countries, connecting to any of the 6000+ banks in European Union area for getting banking data or posting account to account payment orders for its enterprise customers,” according to the press release.
The license, based on the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) which regulates the payments ecosystem in EU, is an important milestone in the company’s strategy to launch, across all Europe, its FinqTreasury solution.
„FinqTreasury is aimed to become the most important fully fledged embedded banking platform for mid market companies, automating their internal financial operations, based on open banking,” the company says.
Finqware started in 2018 as a technical service provider for banks such as OTP Bank, Banca Transilvania and CEC Bank and has been continuously developing and improving its deep tech infrastructure for banks APIs aggregation. The purpose was to end up with one of the most solid and scalable financial data hubs, capable of delivering the security, data quality and real time requirements of the corporate finance users.
The company’s vision is to turn open banking and APIs into the preferred bank connectivity solution for large companies, relying on its own infrastructure for APIs aggregation.
“Until now, only very large global companies could install, on their premises, very costly and sophisticated solutions for treasury management, payments and financial operations in relation to their banking partners. However, in the range of mid-market companies, such solutions are currently having very low adoption, due to their complexity and high capital expenses. The bank APIs are here now to open the access to extremely proficient treasury and cash management solutions to a wide number of companies, for a fraction of the price, on a monthly subscription-based model. Open banking connectivity comes also with unparallel benefits against the old technologies, like real-time data pulling and no-human touch financial data processing potential. And Finqware has the aggregation technology to leverage this opportunities for businesses,” says Cosmin Cosma, Co-founder and CEO of Finqware.
FinqTreasury, the first open banking solution for treasury, accounting and collections automation is soon to be launched commercially, after one year of being battle tested in trail projects with 15 companies. It is already equipped with a cash management dashboard accessible as a SaaS application and an API for automating the bank statements’ import into any ERP. By the end of the year, the solution will also provide a flow of corporate payments initiation and sign-off.
The roadmap for the next two years also includes features for streamlining invoice payments, check-out payments, reporting & forecasting as well as financial audit support. The aim is to provide a 360 degrees coverage of all financial operations involving banking into a single embedded banking solution for ERPs.
In the next period Finqware will concentrate on commercial launch of the product in different countries.The company starts a fundraising campaign looking for the capital needed to fastrack in monetising is market potential.
Find out more about Finqware evolution from this infographic
Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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