Open Banking

09 Jul 26 @ 21:02

Open Banking payment fraud continues to remain significantly lower than across the wider UK payments industry, despite increasingly sophisticated scam techniques and a gradual rise in overall fraud volumes, according... read more

31 May 26 @ 12:58

Britain’s largest banks are preparing to launch a new domestic payments scheme designed to reduce the UK’s reliance on global card networks and accelerate the adoption of account-to-account payments powered... read more

27 Apr 26 @ 12:54

The UK Government has set out a broad package of payments reforms designed to prepare the sector for stablecoins, tokenised deposits, Open Banking and AI-driven transactions. The move reflects a... read more

21 Apr 26 @ 14:34

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out an ambitious vision for open finance, arguing that consumers and businesses should have far greater control over how their financial data is shared... read more

10 Mar 26 @ 17:33

Open Banking Limited has highlighted the substantial economic potential of open banking in the United Kingdom, with new research suggesting the technology could ultimately generate up to £43bn in annual... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 15:31

Amazon’s launch of Pay by Bank in the UK marks a significant moment for account-to-account (A2A) payments in e-commerce. By allowing customers to pay directly from their bank accounts without... read more

28 Jan 26 @ 22:23

Europe’s strategic autonomy debate has expanded far beyond defence and energy. As policymakers increasingly recognise, control over everyday payment systems has become a matter of economic sovereignty. As MEP Aurore... read more

28 Jan 26 @ 21:23

Open Banking has long been promoted as a safer, more controlled alternative to legacy payment rails. New evidence from Open Banking Limited’s latest financial crime update reinforces that claim —... read more

15 Jan 26 @ 21:30

Pay by Bank is once again being talked up as a potential disruptor to the entrenched dominance of card payments in the United States. Yet while consumer awareness and trial... read more

13 Jan 26 @ 14:22

Eight years after its launch, Open Banking has become a foundational layer of the UK’s financial system rather than a niche regulatory initiative. More than 16.5 million user connections are... read more

10 Dec 25 @ 17:21

On 07 November 2025, the Payments Vision Delivery Committee (PVDC) published its “Strategy for Future Retail Payments Infrastructure.” As a quick refresher, the PVDC was set up in November 2024 to... read more

09 Dec 25 @ 13:22

A2A payments have long promised to rebalance the economics of digital commerce. This year, their ascent has begun to look less like a thought experiment and more like a structural... read more