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...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleSeptember 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...
Read the articleJune 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...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleMay 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...
Read the articleApril 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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