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13 Sep 2021
One of the recurring topics for increased competition in the banking sector is account number portability. Just like number portability evened the playing field between consumers and service providers in the telco industry, is it possible to achieve the same in the banking industry? Even though the number of consumers that have reportedly switche
06 Sep 2021
It has been a decade since I first embarked on my journey down the payments rabbit hole. Since then, the predicted disruption of payments as we know it has proven to be more of an evolution than a revolution. With that in mind, even though there have been massive shifts in the payments space, the most exciting times are yet to come. Here are seve
24 May 2017
Last week we announced that Skandiabanken will be supporting digital currencies by integrating to Coinbase and exposing the account balance held at Coinbase. The real innovation really has little to do with bitcoin and digital currencies, but rather a representation of the way open banking will shape new products development and customer experienc...
12 Oct 2016
It is close to impossible to predict how the future of financial services will look like in ten years. However, some scenarios are starting to stand out as inevitable. One of those is the concept of the bank as an open platform. Gartner predicted this outcome three years ago and stated that by 2016, 75 percent of the top 50 banks in the world will ...