Canada’s Consumer-Driven Banking Act received Royal Assent on March 26th. Eyal Sivan, GM for North America at Ozone API and host of the Mr. Open Banking podcast, breaks down what the legislation actually settles, where Canada sits relative to other markets, and what banks and credit unions should be doing right now.
Around 60 jurisdictions have implemented open banking regulation. Most banks are still treating it as a compliance cost. This guide lays out the practical steps to change that — covering three API business models, regional considerations, and a realistic roadmap from compliance to commercialisation.
The U.S. open banking market has always moved on its own terms. But with JP Morgan now charging for API access, the commercial conversation has changed. Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Ex-CEO of Virgin Money, joins Huw Davies to discuss data ownership, fairness, and why the U.S. won’t stay in its holding pattern much longer.
During our podcast episode Off the Record: Huw Davies and Jayne-Anne Gadhia on Global Open Finance, Dame Jayne-Anne shares her first-hand experience of what it was like to be right at the heart of the UK’s open banking revolution. As CEO of Virgin Money during those early days, she witnessed the regulatory push for competition,…
The traditional banking model is dead. Today’s customers are CEOs of their own financial lives, assembling best-of-breed services through open finance. Banks face a critical choice: become a compliance-only utility and lose the customer interface, or build smart API strategies that make them indispensable components in customer-managed financial stacks.
Lost in open banking acronyms? This guide explains who holds customer data (ASPSPs) and who uses it (TPPs) in the UK and European ecosystem. Find out which side your business is on and what that means for your strategy.
Discover the 10 must-attend open banking and fintech events across the Middle East and Africa in 2026. From Dubai Fintech Summit to Money 20/20 Middle East, find out where the region’s banks, regulators, and fintech leaders are gathering to shape the future of financial services.
GFT and Ozone API are partnering to launch North American financial institutions into the open banking arena as Canada’s Consumer Driven-Banking Act accelerates adoption. The partnership eliminates implementation roadblocks, helping banks achieve compliance quickly while unlocking commercial opportunities through embedded finance.
If you’ve ever tried to explain how open banking works in Brazil to a regulator in Saudi Arabia, or map UK Open Banking terminology to Australia’s CDR framework, you know the problem: every market speaks a different language. So we built a solution: a visual map of the global open finance ecosystem that captures participants, roles, regulations, and standards across six continents in one accessible reference tool.