{"id":7469,"date":"2021-06-25T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7469"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:04:51","slug":"visa-set-to-acquire-swedish-open-banking-platform-tink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/visa-set-to-acquire-swedish-open-banking-platform-tink\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Set To Acquire Swedish Open Banking Platform Tink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visa announced a $2.2 billion takeover of Swedish open banking platform Tink on Thursday, months after it cancelled a $5.3 billion planned purchase of U.S. data-sharing platform Plaid over the U.S. government&#8217;s antitrust lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition of Tink is part of Visa&#8217;s efforts to diversify revenues beyond credit card payments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the acquisition of Tink, Visa may acquire a company responsible for providing technologies that facilitate access to customer data for third parties and banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the deal is completed, it will be another groundbreaking achievement for Sweden&#8217;s financial technology startup sector.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/visa-buy-european-open-banking-platform-tink-215-billion-2021-06-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa announced a $2.2 billion takeover of Swedish open banking platform Tink on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-7469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-visa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7469\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}