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Ping Identity sets ‘Gold Standard’ in UK Open Banking

Leading Identity and Access Management Platform Provider Reaches Key Testing Milestone as It Completes Open Banking Conformance Tests   LONDON, 26 September 2018 — Ping Identity, the leader in Identity Defined Security, today announced the successful completion of 70 technical security tests set by Open Banking Ltd. These tests allow…

Open Banking is coming, but it’s taking its time

Born in a sea of hype on January 13, Open Banking has so far fallen short of delivering the promised financial revolution. We have yet to see any “killer apps”, dramatic changes in consumer behaviour, sudden doses of competition or tectonic shifts in the UK banking market. Mandated by the Competition…

Open Banking goes live in Sweden

Nordea takes a major step by extending Open Banking to Sweden. This gives developers the possibility to begin building applications designed for both Finnish and Swedish customers. “We see open banking as a huge opportunity to create better financial solutions”, says Casper von Koskull, CEO of Nordea. Nordea’s Open Banking…

The Big Interview: Dr Louise Beaumont

As a serial entrepreneur, regulatory adviser, corporate consultant and investor, Dr Louise Beaumont has seen the evolution of the banking sector from all angles. As co-chair of the Open Banking & Payments Working Group, techUK, she spoke to Open Banking Expo about the challenges facing the sector and who she…

Intermediaries call for consistency from lenders

Banks with operations in the brokered mortgage, secured lending and debt management markets are being urged to adopt a universal format for sharing and accepting customer data. Senior industry figures acknowledge that banks have become better at sharing affordability data, but are frustrated that banks’ broker systems will not accept…

ING Ventures invests in Open Banking platform Cobase

ING Ventures has invested €7.5m in Cobase, a fintech start-up, which provides a single point of access to all bank accounts and other financial products and services. Cobase is a multibank platform that helps international customers in handling different bank accounts by providing payments, cash management and treasury services, all…

White paper

More data can help you to perform a detailed assessment of a person’s creditworthiness. As well as bank account data, potential new complementary data sources include government data and rental data. Find out more about what Open Banking and other alternative data sources can provide in Experian’s latest white paper.…

Global speed of Open Banking adoption not a concern, say experts.

Differing speeds of adoption of Open Banking principles globally are not a cause for concern and will not necessarily lead to fragmented integration, industry figures have said. Some global banks and FinTechs have focussed on developing solutions in very different financial areas to their counterparts in the UK, which has…

Two-thirds of Amazon Prime members would try banking with the retailer, according to Bain study

Banks, you’ve been warned. About two-thirds of Amazon Prime members would try a free online bank account from the e-commerce giant, according to a report from consultant Bain & Co. That’s considerably higher than the percentage of regular Amazon customers (43 percent) or non-Amazon customers (37 percent) who would try…

Yolt completes Open Banking API connections with all CMA9 banks

Yolt, the smart thinking money app, has today announced it has become the first third-party provider (TTP) to successfully complete Application Programming Interface (API) connections under the new Open Banking regulation with nine of the biggest high street banks in the UK. Combined with challenger banks Monzo and Starling, there…

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