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Call for input: Industry needs to engage as the FCA moves forward on its transformative vision for open finance.

By Stuart Davis and Brett Carr

Imagine a world in which you could access your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgage, pensions, savings accounts and ISAs, brokerage account, home and car insurance, life insurance, and other financial products on one user interface or app, even if each of those products is held with a different provider. Then, imagine that the app could provide innovative financial management services across all of those products, such as automated switching to the best products, holistic investment advice and budgeting, and sweeping of excess cash into products yielding a better return than today’s current accounts. This world may be closer than you think, and it will likely have profound impacts for incumbent and new financial services business.

While the payments industry scrambles to meet new standards for APIs, the FCA grants an extension for SCA compliance.

By Christian F. McDermott, Jagveen Tyndall, and Amy Smyth

In an effort to evaluate the readiness of banks to comply with the revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2), Tink, a banking platform and data provider, has reported that it tested 84 application programme interfaces (APIs) spanning 2,500 banks and 12 European markets. According to Tink the results showed that none of these APIs were sufficiently robust to meet the new regulatory standards. Separately, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has delayed the implementation of the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements introduced by PSD2 to enhance the security of all electronic payment services.