Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.
Open Banking regulation, innovation and technology and it's potential to revolutionise the Financial Services Industry.
Open Banking has been in the fintech headlines recently, once again being lambasted as something that hasn’t quite worked with some industry titans even labelling the initiative as a failure. Starlin...
One of the crucial pillars of the Kenya’s Digital Economy Blueprint is Digital Business which focuses on digital trade, digital financial services and digital content. The goals and primary objectives...
It’s been almost four years since the Payment Services Directive Two (PSD2) took effect. This new Open Banking legislation was rooted in the belief that enabling consumers to share their banking data ...
Open Banking and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) are terms used for APIs in the financial space. But do they mean the same - can they be used interchangeably? Does a bank automatically offer Banking-as-a-...
The noise around account-to-account (A2A) payments is starting to swell as people pick up on the benefits. FIS’ Global Payments Report 2020 predicted that A2A payments will account for 20% of all e-co...
The significant changes in the way customers and businesses participate in the banking ecosystem are incoming. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial tech...
The Consumer Data Right, first introduced by the Australian Government in 2017, seeks to promote innovation and competition by giving “consumers greater access to and control over their data”. The ro...
Many different verticals in the fintech landscape can benefit from open banking APIs – remittances, growth payments, and crypto. But the love story between open banking and startups is just beginning...
Open banking was set to herald a new dawn when it was introduced back in 2018. But, three years on, we’re still waiting for the innovation and growth it promised to materialise. It’s time we took a ha...
Innovate Finance has launched a new forum to explore the potential of fintech to create a more inclusive and sustainable world. What good timing - fintech has performed impressively amidst the pandem...
Over the past three years the Open Banking movement has quietly gathered pace in the UK. Without realising it, many people are now benefiting from new products and processes that have been enabled by ...
First, there was open banking — a considerable step forward in democratizing the financial services industry. With third-party access to banking via application programming interfaces (APIs), consumer...