From Open Banking to Embedded Finance
Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan sat down with Joris Hensen, the founder and co-lead of the Deutsche Bank API Program which was founded in 2015. Ellie and Joris discuss all things Open Banking to Embedded Finance and how regulation has been key to adoption across Europe, with the rest of the world catching-up quickly on the UK’s Open Banking development. Joris also provides insight on the importance of partnering and viewers will also find out what an ‘API cocktail bar’ is. All this and more in episode 4.
Ellie Duncan
Ellie Duncan
Head of Content Open Banking ExpoFormer Financial Times Group journalist Ellie Duncan has a decade of experience across financial services. While arguably best-known for her asset management work, she has also covered open banking, credit, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Joris Hensen
Joris Hensen
Co-Founder, Deutsche Bank API Program Deutsche BankJoris Hensen is responsible for the client facing business of the Deutsche Bank API Program, which he co-founded in 2015. With more than 50 partnerships and a company-wide coverage of data-based products, Deutsche Bank is now one of the world’s leading open banking players. The Developer Portal of Deutsche Bank gives partners quick and easy access to more than 40 API products, enabling them to connect personalized apps and services and thus open up new areas of value creation.
Joris’ work includes brand and partnership development in the area of open banking as well as the expansion of internal processes and structures to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation.
In his more than ten years at Deutsche Bank, Joris Hensen has worked as a project manager on various international projects. He became enthusiastic about innovations and trends early on and set up a corporate foresight program in which he developed future scenarios and innovation strategies for Deutsche Bank. He now regularly writes and publishes on the topics of foresight, innovation, and APIs.
In his spare time, Joris is committed to supporting entrepreneurial school and financial education as well as social entrepreneurship for more than 400,000 young students in India (www.karmaheld.de).
