The first half of 2026 has been busy; Colombia made open finance mandatory, Saudi Arabia issued its first commercial open banking licences, the UAE completed one of the most ambitious cross-border open finance experiments in the world, UKPI launched what it calls the first new UK payment scheme since 2008, and in Brussels, a decade-long…
The UAE built a fully operational national Open Finance API Hub in 12 months. The UK took nearly five years. Brazil took almost three. This guide examines the six building blocks, coalition model, and realistic delivery timeline that made that speed possible, and what regulators and central banks need to get right to do the same.
At FDX Global Summit 2026, one theme dominated: banks are already moving on digital assets, but open finance doesn’t support them yet. Ozone API’s Co-Founder and CEO Chris Michael shares what it will take to close that gap, from solvable technical challenges to the case for global standards over market-by-market patchwork.
Open banking facilitates the secure sharing of financial data. Read our comprehensive guide to learn everything Open Banking.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
To help you navigate VOP, we’ve taken the complex EPC Rulebook and simplified it into an easy and accessible summary, including the legal framework, technical implementation, operational requirements and governance.