October 07, 2020

Building a better future for UK savers

There’s no financial sector in the UK in greater need of innovation than pensions. Every working individual in the union is automatically enrolled in a pension scheme, making...

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September 11, 2020

FCA registration and how Plaid can help

In January of 2018, the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) went into effect across the UK and Europe. This opened up the banking industry to new players, promoting...

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September 04, 2020

PSD2 and GDPR: are they enough for open finance?

2018 was a milestone year for data regulation in the UK and Europe, with the implementation of both the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the General Data...

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June 10, 2020

Open finance and the future of digital financial services

It’s only been a few years since the introduction of Open Banking and PSD2, but in Europe and the UK policy makers are already beginning to explore what...

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May 22, 2020

Moving from Open Banking to Open Finance

In December 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched an industry consultation on Open Finance , which explores how open-banking type access could be extended to other sectors...

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May 14, 2020

Reviewing open banking on a global stage

Consumer/SME demand and government mandates are opening up the global banking sector. But we’re still seeing a variety of approaches to structuring open banking systems, with differing...

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May 07, 2020

Open-banking-as-a-service: what does that actually mean and how does it work?

Over the past two years, the UK and Europe’s payments’ industry has seen two key developments: the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2); and Open Banking. Both have led...

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April 29, 2020

Open banking: Should I build or partner?

Since the introduction of the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and Open Banking in 2018, the payments sector in the UK and EU has exploded. Every day you...

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