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Open Banking regulation, innovation and technology and it's potential to revolutionise the Financial Services Industry.
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Josh Rix Director at Woodhurst Consulting
Today, getting a mortgage on a property is a cumbersome process. The worst part is that consumers don’t even want to purchase a mortgage – they want to buy a house. The mortgage is, unfortunately, a necessary evil. Consumers highlighted three key challenges with the mortgage process today: 49% find the application and approval process too long 34%...
15 March 2021 /retail /startups
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Banking is open for business Open banking is mutually beneficial for banks and consumers. It provides an opportunity for banking providers to retain and grow their customer base, by offering consumers access to better and more targeted financial advice, services and products. Open banking has the potential to generate an accessible and personalise...
09 March 2021 /regulation /retail
The consumer credit industry is arguably more open to change and innovation than most across financial services, and therefore a beacon of opportunity for Open Finance. 15 million people in the UK do not have access to affordable credit, creating huge disparities in financial inclusion. Credit risk assessments can unintentionally disadvantage pe...
08 March 2021 /retail /inclusion
Retail banking has always been the poster child of innovation, while SME and commercial customers are typically left behind and often undeserved. SME customers arguably require the most support from their banks, as these companies have a greater list of needs than a retail customer but may not have an in-house finance department to deal with them....
01 March 2021 /retail /startups
Abhi Desai Director at Pelican
The open banking ecosystem is thriving. It is poised to dramatically transform how banks and their customers engage and operate, at a scale and pace not seen by a banking industry, best known for its innate inertia for change. Unsurprisingly, this transformation, to provide payment initiation services and share account data with authorised third-p...
28 February 2021 /payments /retail
Dmitrii Barbasura Chief Operating Officer at Fintech Galaxy
This is the second article from the series about the value of open banking and the rules it comes with. In the first article we have discussed the value of open banking and the benefits it brings to each market player. Today, we are going to discuss criteria that have to be respected to create perfect conditions for open banking to function in har...
25 February 2021 /regulation /retail
Saving is a critical element of managing our personal finances, and it tends to be the method that most individuals rely on, with investments being more financially exclusive in many respects. In fact, savings is arguably the first step in solving two key issues, Financial Inclusion and Financial Wellbeing. Somewhat worryingly, 1 in 10 Brits have ...
22 February 2021
Martin Wilson Chief Executive Officer at OneID
This month marks the third anniversary of Open Banking in the UK – or more specifically, three years since Open Banking became a compliance obligation for banks. Back in 2018, users of Open Banking products and services were counted in the tens of thousands and it wasn’t until the beginning of 2020 that this number slowly reached the million-user ...
20 January 2021 /retail /identity
This article is part of a series about the value of open banking and the rules it comes with. Open banking fundamentally changes the landscape of the modern financial sector, stimulating all types of companies to release new services and making traditional banking products simpler, and more convenient, while removing additional costs. Open banking ...
08 September 2020 /regulation /retail
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In July of this year, KBC bank (the 2nd largest bank in Belgium) surprised many people, including many of us working in the banking industry, with their announcement that they bought the rights to broadcast the highlights of soccer matches in Belgium via their mobile app (a service called "Goal alert"). The days following this announceme...
17 August 2020 /retail
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