Monese explains why Open Banking is much more than just a compliance exercise and the huge potential it represents for their customers
Tactical solutions or high-performing, standards-based open APIs? As different regions are adopting their own open banking standards, delivering open APIs has gained extra layers of complexity. We believe open banking doesn’t have to be complex. Sarah Holt from Monese explains what doing it well looks like and how Ozone API were able to help.
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.
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.
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.