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Open Banking

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

Helen Child

Helen Child Founder & CEO at Open Banking Excellence (OBE)

Cutting through the complexity: How to prepare for PSD3

The PSD2 was a truly historic piece of legislation that laid the foundations for a paradigm shift in financial services. The blockbuster Payment Services Directive 2 planted the seeds for Europe’s thriving Open Banking ecosystem. Now we’re awaiting a sequel. When the PSD3 comes into force at some point in the next five years, it will unlock vast n...

/payments /regulation

Ben Rattue

Ben Rattue Manager - Product Partnerships & Propositions at Token.io

A deep dive on the benefits of Variable Recurring Payments

Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs), or Dynamic Recurring Payments (DRPs) as they’re commonly known in continental Europe, represent a promising payments innovation and are poised to deliver significant benefits to both merchants and consumers, potentially unlocking several killer use cases for open banking-enabled payments. This article explores t...

/payments /retail

Ben Rattue

Ben Rattue Manager - Product Partnerships & Propositions at Token.io

Bringing the benefits of Variable Recurring Payments to life

If the sessions and discussions at Open Banking Expo UK and Europe on 18-19 October were anything to go by, then Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) are generating plenty of interest and excitement across the ecosystem, including among merchants, payment services providers (PSPs) and banks. The reason for the hype is because VRPs deliver better out...

/payments /retail

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Apple Enters Open Banking: A New Milestone in Digital Banking Experience

In September 2023, Apple launched the iPhone Wallet app integration with UK users' current account balances and transaction history. The Apple Wallet app's integration with the Open Banking API allows users to get their checking account balance directly from their bank. Throughout history, banks has remained a closed industry, monopolizing the maj...

/retail /markets

Kanika Hope

Kanika Hope Chief Strategy Officer at Temenos

Open for business: open banking for corporates and SMEs

Kanika Hope, Chief Strategy Officer, Temenos The success of open banking is pivoted on the tangible business value delivered to end-customers whether they are retail consumers or small to medium enterprises (SMEs) or larger corporates. Open banking was first adopted by retail banks but also has great potential in the corporate and SME banking sect...

/payments /sibos

Donica Venter

Donica Venter 

Payment Service Providers and the Open Banking Opportunity

In the ever-evolving landscape of the financial industry, payment service providers (PSPs) across Europe are constantly seeking innovative ways to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers. The advent of Open Banking offers a plethora of opportunities for PSPs. In this blog post, we will explore the various ways Open Banking ...

/payments /predictions

Inna Demchenko

Inna Demchenko Head of project at Bank

Open banking in Ukraine: a new stage

Ukraine has moved to a new stage in the process of implementing open banking, as on 11 August the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) published on its official website the approved Open Banking Concept and the introduction plan. The regulator's experts worked on the document jointly with working groups of market participants, including banks, non-bank f...

/retail

Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan Public Policy & Strategy Director at Token.io

Will the EC’s new payments legislative proposals help unlock Open Banking’s true potential?

It’s now been over a month since the European Commission (EC) published their package of proposals for the next generation of payments regulation in the EU. The proposals – which will see PSD2 split into a new directive (PSD3) and regulation (Payment Services Regulation/PSR) – have generated plenty of headlines since their release. But what are t...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

Open banking regulators set out the next steps, but which market will come out on top?

In every corner of the world, financial regulators are taking steps to advance open banking, with fresh regulations and frameworks recently announced in the EU, UK, US, and Australia. However, each regulator is taking a different approach, tackling region-specific issues to advance payments infrastructure and improve the consumer experience. Whils...

/payments /regulation

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Retired Member 

Making Good on the Promise of Open Banking Requires Technology and Solid Execution

Open banking is here and is showing no signs of slowing down. According to a recent Finastra survey, 56 percent of US financial institutions (FIs) surveyed regard open finance as a “must have”, up from 45% in 2021. Globally, the open banking market is expected to grow to $43 billion by 2026 from its value of $7 billion in 2018. Open banking is th...

/retail /inclusion

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