2025 Will Be Make or Break
by Scott Dawson, CEO of DECTA The ‘real’ year of the SME We were assured 2024 was going be the Year of the SME – did it feel that way? We had a budget...
UK’s Data Bill is back on the table
Chris Michael, CEO and Co-founder, Ozone API As the UK sees in a new Government, the UK’s open banking and smart data initiatives are at an important inflection point. Recently, the then...
What a new Labour Government means for the fintech industry
by Dan McLoughlin, Lynx Tech’s Fraud and Security Specialist The new Labour government needs to focus on three key things: maintaining the UK finance industry’s global leadership; ensuring our regulations remain relevant domestically...
Is your chatbot compliant?
by Chris M Skinner Fifteen years ago, social media was becoming popular. Facebook was growing fast, and Twitter had just launched. Ten years ago, banks were cautious about such media as...
I just debanked my bank … before they debanked me
by Chris M Skinner There’s a huge furore in Britain about debanking: the process where a bank says we cannot trust you anymore so get lost. It happened to Nigel Farage, a...
Stop talking about “Open Banking”
by Chris M Skinner Talking of sharing data, Salt Edge just sent me some interesting stats about Open Banking and Open Finance (there is a difference). They start by quoting that inconsistently reliable...
AI will be as transformational as the printing press, according to Jamie Dimon
by Chris M Skinner After yesterday’s discussion of being careful with customer data, AI may be the solution. In previous examples of data sharing, such as those mentioned with Barclays and...
