{"id":13317,"date":"2019-07-16T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2019-07-16T07:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T07:26:18","slug":"world-s-fastest-growing-online-only-sme-bank-to-expand-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/world-s-fastest-growing-online-only-sme-bank-to-expand-to-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s fastest growing online-only SME bank to expand to the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open, an online-only banking startup that offers business banking solutions for startups and SMEs, has announced its plans to expand into the Middle Eastern market. The Indian company is the fastest growing online-only SME bank globally. Currently, it powers payments for over 30,000 businesses, and the expansion in the Middle East will extend its service offering to 17 million more SMEs. Open will be able to offer these businesses a payment platform as well as APIs to integrate banking into business workflows. Open also has plans to introduce its own card in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13317 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Five banking areas most likely to be affected by blockchain'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/five-banking-areas-most-likely-to-be-affected-by-blockchain\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hero-digital-banking-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7400\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7400'>\n\t\t\t\tFive banking areas most likely to be affected by blockchain\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Cyber-attacks underscore need for better cybersecurity measures'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/cyber-attacks-underscore-need-for-better-cybersecurity-measures\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/cyber-attacks-underscore-need-for-better-cybersecurity-measures-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-11224\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-11224'>\n\t\t\t\tCyber-attacks underscore need for better cybersecurity measures\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (22nd April \u2014 20th May)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-22nd-april-20th-may\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1273af59-1bcb-1294-5dd6-0ebd6114cf121-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-16673\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-16673'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (22nd April \u2014 20th May)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open, an online-only banking startup that offers business banking solutions for startups and SMEs, has announced its plans to expand into the Middle Eastern market. The Indian company is the fastest growing online-only SME bank globally. Currently, it powers payments for over 30,000 businesses, and the expansion in the Middle East will extend its service &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,444],"tags":[35,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13318,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions\/13318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}