Insights
Insight: Open Banking in Canada – a pathway to success
With the implementation of Open Banking in Canada underway, it is an opportune time to reflect on the requirements for ecosystem participants to meet regulatory, technical, security and operational needs. How do we ensure that the industry continues to spur innovation and drive new product and service offerings?
Read MoreInsight: The identity verification problem facing global businesses – and how Open Banking can help
Plaid’s head of Europe, Ripsy Bandourian, explains how Open Banking can alleviate the headache global businesses face to localise identity verification.
Read MoreInsight: Three data-backed considerations for your Open Banking strategy
Joint research commissioned by EY Canada and Symcor found that Canadians continue to display a high degree of trust in their financial service providers, while personal banking customers show a greater willingness to share their data with new financial service providers.
Read MoreInsight: Catching a wave – why fintech’s ‘second generation’ is here to stay
Brite Payments chief executive officer Lena Hackeloer writes about the economic turbulence that has helped bring so-called “second generation” fintechs to the fore.
Read MoreQ&A: CloudEntity’s Brook Lovatt on the interaction between Open Banking and digital identity in Canada
Brook Lovatt, chief executive officer of CloudEntity, explains why more education about the interaction between digital identity and Open Banking is required.
Read MoreInsight: What can Open Banking payments learn from the adoption of card payments?
Darran Morford of obconnect writes about the challenges facing Open Banking today, and what we can learn from the adoption of Chip and PIN card payments in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Read MoreQ&A: BBVA’s Ana Climente Alarcon on transformation and collaboration in Canada
Ana Climente Alarcon, head of Open Banking at BBVA Spain, reveals the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Canada’s banks and fintechs in implementing Open Banking.
Read MoreQ&A: Bud’s Ed Maslaveckas on ‘building for the future’ by launching in the US
The chief executive officer of Bud tells Open Banking Expo about breaking America, why its technology is “way ahead of the market” and its latest product development.
Read MoreQ&A: League Data’s Carrie Forbes on the need for stronger data rights for Canadians
Carries Forbes, chief executive officer of League Data, explains what Canadian citizens stand to gain from Open Banking as she prepares to speak at Open Banking Expo Canada on June 15.
Read MoreInsight: Open Banking in Canada – the path forward
With the appointment of Abraham Tachjian as Canada’s Open Banking (OB) lead in March 2022, the CIO Strategy Council’s proposal on national standards, and the FDX technical standard’s growing influence in the market, Canada has been progressing in its journey towards a successful OB implementation. How will and should OB be different here than in other global implementations? What roles will ecosystem participants play in this new normal?
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