The Open Banking
Intelligence Hub

Everything you need to master open banking
and open finance

Open banking is transforming finance, but it’s not always easy to navigate. As creators of the UK standard and pioneers in open finance, we offer clear, practical resources to help banks, regulators, and partners move forward with confidence.

Guides

Open Finance Ecosystem Guide

Demystify participants and roles across global markets

Open Finance Ecosystem Guide

Demystify participants and roles across global markets

A visual guide to open finance ecosystem roles worldwide. Maps participants from end users to infrastructure providers with real-world journey examples. Includes regional terminology across 15+ markets, showing how roles are named differently around the world.

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Standards Snapshots

Understand every global standard easily

Standards Snapshots

Understand every global standard easily

Quick-reference cards for every major open banking and open finance standard worldwide. Each card covers regulatory principles, technical requirements, API capabilities, security protocols, and implementation timelines.

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Commercialising Open Banking

A Practical Guide

Commercialising Open Banking

A Practical Guide

Around 60 jurisdictions have now mandated or regulated open banking. The infrastructure is being built. The standards are maturing. But most banks are still treating it as a compliance cost, not a commercial asset. That’s the gap this guide addresses.

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KSA Payment Initiation Services

A Guide On What To Expect

KSA Payment Initiation Services

A Guide On What To Expect

Building PIS capability requires banks to deliver a robust technical stack spanning API design, FAPI security, OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect, mutual TLS, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), and complex core payment processing integrations (such as SARIE).

This whitepaper breaks down the exact practical path KSA banks can take to move from mandate to live rails—safely, quickly, and at scale.

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Video

Global Voices S3 Video Series

Learn from the experts shaping the global ecosystem

Exclusive interviews with regulators, bank executives and fintech leaders from across the globe. Get insider perspectives on market developments, implementation challenges and future opportunities.

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Off the Record video series

Huw Davies and Jayne-Anne Gadhia 
on Global Open Finance

This video series features Ozone API CEO and co-founder Huw Davies in candid conversation with Ex-CEO at Virgin Money Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia. Together they bring over 60 years of combined experience across banking, regulation, and financial technology; including pioneering the UK open banking standard and building some of the most recognised consumer banking brands in the world.

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Articles

What is Open Banking? The Complete Guide for 2026

What is Open Banking? The Complete Guide for 2026

Throughout this introduction to open banking we cover the safety of open banking, look at its key components, its benefits and what the future holds for the industry. 

Ozone API
01, May 2026
How to Build a National Open Finance Ecosystem

How to Build a National Open Finance Ecosystem

The UAE built a fully operational national Open Finance API Hub in 12 months, the UK took nearly five years and Brazil took almost three. This guide examines what made that speed possible, and what regulators and central banks need to get right to achieve the same.

Ozone API
25, Jun 2026

Directories

Open Banking Glossary

Decode the jargon 

Clear and concise definitions of open banking terms, from APIs and ASPSP to PSD2 and TPP. No more confusion about technical jargon or regulatory terminology. Test your open banking knowledge with our Jargon Busting Quiz.

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The Open Finance Tracker

Built to support global interoperability

Recently updated, The Open Finance Tracker allows you to navigate the complex global open banking and open finance landscape.

Use our comprehensive Standards Library to explore and compare standards worldwide, and use the Innovation Atlas to track implementation progress and status across every market.

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