Ozone API and Yapily partnership marks turning point in open banking adoption for banks

We are delighted to announce our strategic partnership with open banking leader Yapily today to enable banks and financial institutions to accelerate their adoption of open banking. 

Covid-19 has forced the banking sector to embrace open banking wholeheartedly. Until now, the rationale behind open banking adoption for many banks had been motivated by compliance. But with the exponential uptake in digital payments brought about by the pandemic, many are now looking to ramp up open banking adoption in a bid to retain customers and launch new, profitable financial products and services to market. 

Through this partnership, Ozone API and Yapily will provide banks with the infrastructure to play on both sides of the open banking ecosystem. Delivering high performing standard-based APIs to provide a platform for developers and access to the leading technical enterprise connectivity platform in Europe to power their own propositions. This will enable banks and financial institutions to build and launch financial products customers want to use, while ensuring they are utilising the highest quality performing APIs. 

By joining forces, the fintechs have created an ecosystem that enables banks to monetise open banking; one where they can build services that will retain customers and generate new revenue streams. And crucially helps them differentiate themselves from bigger players and stave off competition from neo and challenger banks. 

The partnership aims to expose a better API world that banks, financial institutions and third party providers can connect to, enabling them to ramp and scale as we enter a post-Covid world. 

Huw Davies, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Ozone API commented, “Banks are looking to go way beyond mere compliance and build value-adding propositions and services to do more for their customers, reach new customers and build new partnerships. This requires delivering great APIs of their own and building awesome propositions by leveraging access to other banks. By partnering with Yapily, we can combine the best standards based API platform with the best platform to power financial applications.”

Matt Cockayne, CCO at Yapily commented, “Bringing together a full open banking service for banks allows greater choice for new markets and market entrants. This partnership builds harmony between the creation and consumption of open banking APIs, bringing a powering open banking solution for financial institutions. We look forward to working with Ozone API.”

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