Open Banking

It has been 18 months since the Open Banking legislation was launched in the UK. How much has changed or been achieved in that time?

In the first of two blog posts, Head of Research and co-host of Insurtech Insider, Sarah Kocianski, examines the impact of COVID-19 on the insurance industry.

America has seemed a beacon of prosperity for as long as anyone can remember. But a closer look into the state of American household finances reveals a bleak picture.

Open Banking launched to little fanfare in January this year and it hasn’t made much of an impact in consumer lives.

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she returns to the theme of holding yourself accountable and moving to the Big Top.

Why is China so far ahead on fintech? Guest author Richard Davies went to China earlier this year to see for himself. These are his findings:

Every Thursday, Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Chief of Staff creates #LedaWrites. This week she turns her attention to legacy and core banking.

Four years ago, policymakers in the UK and EU took the first steps to enshrine open banking into law, but now we’re at a turning point for digital adoption and the old ways of working aren’t working anymore.

Much has been written about how Open Banking has announced itself with more of a whimper than a bang, since going live at the beginning of 2018.

APIs are key to creating a digital ecosystem for customers. In an increasingly digital world, it’s time to bring seamless experiences to personal banking.

When the lights went out we got some of the brightest in the industry to shine a spotlight on Open Finance for our third virtual After Dark, a live recording of our award winning Fintech Insider podcast.

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and the reaction from all of us is almost a war effort to ensure society still functions through one of its biggest ever shifts.

Monzo have become the world’s first smart bank as they have integrated If This, Then That (IFTTT) into their banking technology, which launches today. IFTTT has nearly all internet based services linked into it, from social media to slack bots and smart home devices to Google calendars, but up until now, no financial services.

11:FS is pleased to announce that today we are launching the beginner’s guide to Open Banking! It’s a hot topic in the fintech space at the moment and users need to know what they’re getting themselves into.

Every fintech marketing org, large and small, is surrounded by fires. But successful teams don’t try to fight each one. They let the nonessentials burn and focus on what matters. It sounds simple on the surface, but it’s a challenging principle to put into practice day in and day out.