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Open Banking

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

Farouk Ferchichi

Farouk Ferchichi Group President, Envestnet Data and Analytics at Envestnet

Embracing Open Banking for Small Banks

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalizes its Dodd-Frank Section 1033 rulemaking, the U.S. is on the brink of establishing an open banking ecosystem. While some smaller community and regional banks may perceive this as a compliance challenge, Envestnet recognizes the significant value a customer-centric open banking framework wi...

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Jessica Bayley

Jessica Bayley Head of Marketing at Acquired.com

How do authorisation success rates compare between open banking, digital wallets and card payments?

More than 600,000 British businesses now use open banking (OBIE) in either a data or payments capacity. From streamlined collections in sectors such as lending and retail to increased financial control and tailored repayment options for customers, including open banking payments as part of a customer-centric strategy is paving the way for a more i...

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Erica Virlan

Erica Virlan Vice President at Salt Edge

How can travel industry leverage open banking to overcome challenges

Travel is one of the world’s biggest and crucial service industries in modern times. Statista predicts the sector will be worth US$1,015.60 billion by 2027, while 74% of total revenue will be generated through online sales. The introduction of open banking in 2018 changed the face of many industries and has impacted consumers around the globe. Sim...

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Maysam Rizvi

Maysam Rizvi CEO at Elifinty

Cost of Living Crisis - Three Ways that Fintech Can Help

Households throughout the UK are struggling with the cost of living; from soaring food and energy costs to higher interest rates, communities throughout the country are tightening their budgets. Consumers are entering problem debt to make ends meet, spurred on by easy-to-access online lending. But not all is lost - the fintech industry is enabling...

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Accelerating Mass Adoption: Strategies for the Future of Finance

The pandemic has acted as a catalyst in the widespread adoption of digital payments, propelling contactless payments to the forefront of this transformation. According to a recent report from Juniper Research, the total number of unique contactless mobile payment users will reach 1 billion globally by 2024, rising from 782 million in 2022, represe...

/payments /retail

Paul Marcantonio

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

Will Open Banking hit the mainstream in 2023?

Open banking has the potential to reshape eCommerce transactions, yet so far, uptake has been slow amongst consumers. Since Open Banking was introduced in January 2018, UK banks have been required to make their data available in a standardised format, allowing third-party developers to build applications for financial services and enabling fast ban...

/payments /markets

Andy Wiggan

Andy Wiggan Chief Product Officer at GoCardless

It's crunch time for open banking in the UK

As the proverb goes, ‘patience is a virtue’, and that’s something many of us are having to keep in mind this week as we await the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee’s (JROC) report on the future of open banking in the UK. Fortunately, the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) has given us all something to sink our teeth into after releasing ‘...

/payments /inclusion

Brad Goodall

Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED

What must happen to get Open Banking done right in the UK and Europe?

While Open Banking has been a game-changer for the UK’s financial services sector, the rest of Europe has yet to fully embrace this concept in the same way. This has resulted in a lack of consistency in implementation and a range of challenges that need to be addressed. Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK FinTech, in partnership wi...

/payments /regulation

Benny Boye Johansen

Benny Boye Johansen Head of OpenAPI at Saxo Bank

API Quality is more than meets the eye

As Saxo is working to create the vision for our next version of OpenAPI, we are looking for many sources of inspiration as to what needs to get improved. One initiative is a collaboration with the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School with the purpose to assess API quality and how different ways of working, different design me...

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Richard McCall

Richard McCall CEO at Armalytix

FTX was crypto’s canary. Financial institutions ignore its demise at their peril

Despite a raft of recent issues, financial institutions remain determined to dive deeper into crypto. This presents real risks to institutions – and that it is imperative that they take precautions to properly protect themselves against the ever-present spectre of fraud and money laundering. The ink is still yet to dry on stories of the FTX coll...

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