In his TechBullion interview, Yuriy Yakushko reflects on the problem that inspired Finexer’s founding in 2018: unreliable bank data feeds and merchants absorbing chargebacks as an unavoidable cost of card payments. Both issues traced back to the same underlying cause: the absence of a direct, reliable connection to the bank.
Yakushko built Finexer’s entire platform independently during Open Banking’s earliest and most uncertain years, architecting it to meet FCA standards before the company had assembled a team or secured a single client. That early conviction has since evolved into infrastructure processing close to 200 million API requests and supporting over 100,000 connected bank accounts across the majority of UK banks. In a new interview with TechBullion, he discusses that trajectory and the direction Finexer is taking next.
Yuriy Yakushko, Founder and CTO of Finexer, said: “We have grown alongside that shift, building infrastructure that now connects businesses to most UK banks, processed nearly 200 million API requests, and supports more than 100,000 connected bank accounts.”
Read the full interview: From Emerging Fintech to Nearly 200 Million API Requests: Yuriy Yakushko on Building Finexer’s Open Banking Infrastructure – TechBullion
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The Finexer Team is a collective of fintech engineers, payments specialists, and Open Banking experts working on financial infrastructure for UK businesses. Finexer builds API-driven solutions that allow companies to access real-time bank data, initiate Pay by Bank payments, and integrate financial services directly into their products.