Project Open Banking

Project Open Banking has the potential to have a significant impact on the future of open banking in the UK and beyond. As The Payments Association’s influence and thought leadership is used to help increase customer trust and awareness, we will build a sustainable industry structure which encourages innovation, the protection of customers and competition in a rapidly growing ecosystem. Working with other industry leaders to maximise the impact of that influence and thought leadership is a great opportunity.

Richard Jones, Project Lead

Project Knowledge Partner:

Mission Statement:

To help create the market conditions for the successful implementation of Open Banking, by championing open finance and supporting the development of commercial frameworks and industry standards

Strategy & Approach 2021:

Develop an Open Banking Use Case Day for the Payments Association membership
Create The Payments Association Open Banking Guidebook on how to get regulated and leverage open banking

Develop relationships with key standards bodies and stakeholders such as OIDF, OBIE and UK Finance to support their efforts and help build their understanding of the needs of the payments industry

Support the development of commercial market frameworks so that premium API propositions are scalable and accessible to the industry

Project Open Banking Team

Leader

Richard Jones – Partner, Eversheds Sutherland

Mentor

Huw Davies – Co-Founder and CCO, Ozone API

Team Members

Manish Garg – Managing Director, The Banksly

Jan Van Vonno – Research Director, Tink

Emma Hunter – Payment Acceptance Manager, Post Office Limited

Andrew Churchill – Security Consultant & Researcher, Technology Strategy

Leigh Garner – Head of Industry Relations, Discover

Tim Annis – Director, Bluechain

Teejay Townsend – Product Manager, allpay

Ed Ashead-Grant – General Manager & Director, Payments, Bottomline Technologies

Thomas Bull – Associate Partner, EY

Fliss Berridge – Co-Founder, Ordo

Yaprak De Beaufort – Head of Strategy and Business Performance, Visa

Nick Adams – Director, Open Banking, Modulr

Jack Wilson – Head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, TrueLayer

David Lambert – Commercial Director, Transact365

Resources

Use case videos

Here are some shorts clips from our members Ordo, Bottomline Technologies, Tink as well as non-members Ecospend and Minna explaining their use case/open banking story and how it is solving a problem for their business. Our Project Open Banking team will use these videos for the Use Case Guidebook published in October 2021 in partnership with Discover Global Network.

Open Banking Interviews

Ahead of the Payment Association’s Open Banking Use Case Guidebook published in October 2021, we spoke to 5 companies offering innovative products and solutions in the open banking arena. In these videos, Robin Eatwell of Polymath Consulting, interviews executives from Accountscore, Ecospend, Minna, Ordo and Snoop about their product use cases and how it is improving the payments experience for their clients and customers. Thanks to Discover Global Network for supporting this initiative. You can also find the transcripts of the interviews below.

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