Open Banking

Open Banking regulation, innovation and technology and it's potential to revolutionise the Financial Services Industry.

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Golden Visa business alive and well

Governments such as the UK have come under renewed pressure to limit or suspend visa systems which have the effect of offering visas, residency or passports to the rich-and-famous, if they “invest” in the country concerned. Recent editions of the British Airways “High Life” magazine have included an insert from St Kitts and Nevis that reads initial...

24 January 2019 /payments /regulation

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Open Banking - PSD2: Thoughts and Discussions

Make versus Buy - Develop your own API's or simply Buy from a Trusted 3rd Party? Should Bank's also be TPP's? Monetisation BigTech/FinTech - Competitors or Collaborators? PSD2 and GDPR - dichotomy? How do Visa and Mastercard react to PIS? Different adoption rates for AIS and PIS? Wild West without SCA? Liability - Banks or TPP's? PSD3?

08 January 2019

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Open banking starts with culture change

Open banking has swiftly turned from being a buzzword into the means of bringing financial services in the new paradigm. Change is inevitable and corporate culture is a good place to start. For decades, banks and financial institutions have operated by traditional methods culminating in hefty legacy systems, high operating costs, manual procedures ...

12 December 2018

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The Innovation Game

Banks are facing up to the challenges of the digital age. But legacy systems remain a hindrance to innovation. How are banks addressing this challenge to deliver innovation at the speed that customers expect? These issues, and more, are addressed in a whitepaper we commissioned with Finextra: “The Innovation Game: Escaping legacy with new technolo...

11 December 2018 /devops

Hakan Eroglu Global Open Banking & Open Data Lead at Mastercard

Berlin Group and the path to PSD3

In the European Union, PSD2 has created an important initial framework for open banking. API standardization is essential for building a fully-functioning open banking ecosystem – and the Berlin Group’s NextGenPSD2 has emerged as the leader among several PSD2 API standardization initiatives that have been launched. Over the past few months, versio...

05 December 2018

Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10

A Big IDea for Banks

In the digital world banks can win by doing more of the same... What is a bank? A place to store money? Yes, but keeping cash under the mattress doesn’t make a bank of your bed. A lender? Sure. But today you can get a line of credit from almost anywhere. A payments facilitator? Absolutely. Yet banks need third-party tech, independent networks, proc...

23 November 2018 /retail

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Open Banking - four models for the digital future

In a number of my previous blogs, I’ve pointed to the importance of platformification, and the need for banks to explore new revenue models for Open Banking. In this blog, I’d like to explore the topic again, this time taking a look at some of the Open Banking models out there today. As with every business, each bank has its own unique goals, prod...

20 November 2018

Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski

Open Banking and the magic illusion of 24x7 availability

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” The wisdom in this old adage appears to ring true when applied to the early phases of the evolution of Open Banking (or open payments). Especially when you contrast it with the early days of ATM withdrawals; particularly those made in the dead of night so you could pay cash for your after-par

13 November 2018 /payments

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Open banking is opening up business everywhere

Even though it’s early days for open banking there are already plenty of trailblazers offering new services. From forex to rental accommodation, personal identification to loyalty schemes, many customer experiences are starting to be transformed by the effects of Europe’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) just months after it was introduce...

05 November 2018 /payments

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Learning from the UK open banking experience

The UK’s retail banks have been broadly ready for open banking since the start of the year. Let's look at what we have learnt so far. The UK is probably the most advanced country in Europe when it comes to open banking. With its nine biggest retail banks embracing open banking in advance of the European Union’s second Payment Services Directive (P...

24 October 2018 /retail