The Great API Debate: Should Banks Charge for Access?
Mary talks with Huw Davies, co-founder and chief executive at open finance company Ozone API, about what this shift could mean for banks, fintech firms and the rest of the industry. From pricing models to global lessons, Huw weighs into the money, the timing and the soap opera of U.S. banking regulation. Plus, they explore what many are not talking about right now: how banks are some of the biggest users of the technology.
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.