**NEW RESEARCH** Open Banking - It's Alive!

2018 is going to be a year when a tidal wave of regulatory change hits the banking sector, with the EU’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD 2)/Open Banking and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) both launching in the first half.

The first to go live was the UK’s Open Banking initiative, which came into operation this weekend, requiring the UK’s nine largest banks to open up their data and payment rails to authorised third parties. We covered the regulations in detail in our report Open Banking & PSD 2 , but the key question now is whether this is going to be a damp squib, a charter for cyber-criminals or a revolution in the way we bank?

It is important for SITS suppliers to the financial services industry to be fully briefed on the factors that are in play, so that they can anticipate the needs of their Financial Services clients and help them think through the impacts of Open Banking and how to deal with them.

Subscribers to FinancialServicesViews can access our latest FinTech report “Open Banking – It’s Alive”, here. If you don’t yet subscribe to this research stream, please contact Deb Seth on dseth@techmarketview.com

Posted by Peter Roe at '08:07' - Tagged: banking   regulation   FinTech