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Open Banking

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

Alessio Balduini

Alessio Balduini CEO and Founder at Credit Data Research

Losing Billions: Why Open Banking Was the Missing Piece in the BBLS Puzzle

Mounting evidence suggests that losses from the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) could have been drastically reduced if Open Banking tools had been used from the outset to verify applicant information. According to government estimates, fraud and error account for about 6.8 percent of BBLS loans—funds that might have been better protected by real-ti...

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Andrew Bonsall

Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData

Say goodbye to payslip guesswork with real-time income verification

Getting income verification right is critical, yet traditional methods often fall short. Payslips and bank statements, while useful, only offer periodic glimpses into a person’s financial situation. They’re prone to delays, inaccuracies, and even manipulation—leaving businesses to make critical decisions based on outdated information. This is wher...

Andrew Bonsall

Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData

How Open Banking data can resolve thin credit files

What happens when over 5 million* UK residents are unable to access mainstream credit? The issue is more significant than it seems. These 'credit invisible' individuals—ranging from freelancers to those recently arrived in the UK—often have thin credit files that fail to represent their true financial situation. This creates a frustrating paradox...

Ugne Buraciene

Ugne Buraciene Group CEO at payabl.

Open Banking turns 7: Reflecting on the journey here and the road ahead

It’s amazing that Open Banking, once a visionary concept, is now celebrating its seventh anniversary. When it launched in the UK in 2018, its mission was clear: to transform the financial services landscape by giving consumers and businesses greater control over their data, enhancing competition, and fostering innovation. Seven years on, it’s time...

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Kathiravan Rajendran

Kathiravan Rajendran Associate Director of Marketing Operations at Macro Global

How Can Banks and Fintechs Capitalize on PSD3 and PSR1?

The financial landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the impending implementation of Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3) and Payment Services Regulation 1 (PSR1). The PSD3 timeline is uncertain, but finished versions are likely to be available by late 2024. The EU member states will have a two-year implementation phase, with instituti

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Victor Irechukwu

Victor Irechukwu Head, Engineering at OnePipe Services Limited

Architecting Scalable API Infrastructure for Open Banking: Challenges and Best Practices

The financial services industry is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by Open Banking — a movement that promotes customer-centric banking through APIs. By enabling secure data sharing and seamless integrations between financial institutions and third-party providers, Open Banking unlocks new business models and customer experiences. However, th

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Aditya Deshpande

Aditya Deshpande Senior Software Engineer at PayPal

Understanding Open Banking: How Companies drive the Future of Finance

What is Open Banking? Consider Open Banking as a means of safely linking your bank account to applications that assist you with bill payment, spending tracking, money management, and even loan applications. Open Banking lets many apps access your bank information with your consent without jeopardizing your security. Thus, you can view everything i...

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Open banking: Where next for the UK following the King’s Speech?

In 2017, the UK introduced open banking, a concept born from an initiative by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) aimed at improving retail banking. The CMA required the nine largest retail banks in the country to open up customer data sharing through secure data portals. As of September 2024, this initiative achieved a significant milesto...

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Martynas Bieliauskas

Martynas Bieliauskas Founder & CEO at Klarpay AG

Not-so-open banking fails businesses that dare to dream beyond their borders

Even the smallest digital business is now a potential multinational. Whether it’s a vintage clothes retailer trading on Depop or a digital creative selling through a self-built website, customers can come from anywhere in the world. That was always the promise of the online revolution – to supercharge globalisation by removing the barriers to cros...

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Nick Stephens

Nick Stephens Commercial Lead & Head Of Enterprise Partnership at Amdaris

Why partnerships are a perfect fit for the growing world of open banking

The UK is one of the leading countries in the world for open banking. Launched in the country in 2018, now, according to the JROC, “over 7 million consumers and businesses [...] are using innovative open banking enabled products and services to manage their money and to make payments”. Open banking is all about data sharing, innovation and collab...

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