OBE’s Interview with the URF
Open Banking Exchange is delighted to have had the opportunity to sit down with the Head of the URF Prudential Regulation, Camilo Hernandez Lopez, to speak to him and hear…
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Colombia National Development Plan: Article 71
Colombia’s National Development plan, which must first get the seal of approval from Congress, opens the door for mandated open…
Chile Fintech Law: Promoting Financial Innovation and Interoperability
Since January 2023, Chile’s Fintech Law regulates Open Finance in the country. Law 21.521 aims to promote competition, financial inclusion,…
Colombia Issues Open Finance Decree
In October 2021, Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit published for consultation a draft decree to regulate open finance.…
Scheming about Open Banking Schemes
Schemes mean different things to different people, but in this case, a scheme is a collection of rules to which…
The Risk of Only Checking eIDAS Certificates
Despite its name, Open Banking does not make financial information widely accessible to anyone. Accessing banking information is only possible…
Regulation in Open Finance: An Overview of the Chile Fintech Law
This article summarises the regulatory status of open finance in Chile, depicting the objectives and stages of the Fintech Law.
Open Banking Exchange: Chile Summit Review
Open Banking Exchange (OBE) marked the start of its operations in Chile with a summit that brought the Financial Market…
CMF – Open Finance: Opportunities and Challenges
Open Finance: Opportunities and Challenges. Remarks by Kevin Cowan, Vice-President of the CMF, 'Open Banking Exchange Summit' (January 2022)
Response to URF Draft Decree on Open Finance
In response to Colombia’s draft decree on open finance, OBE held a series of discussions with its member community and…
Year in Review: Mexico Adopts an Open Financial System
This article explores the nature of the market and the different market players, describing the challenges and opportunities presented by…
The Adoption of Open Insurance in Latin America
Open Banking Exchange was delighted to welcome Thiago Duarte, Co-ordinator of the Open Insurance Project at the Superintendence of Private…
Colombia Publishes a Draft Decree on Open Finance
On Friday 29 October 2021, Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit published for consultation the first decree defining the…
A Roadmap to Financial Inclusion in Latam and the Caribbean
This article looks at how open banking and open finance promote financial inclusion by providing access to better products and…
An Overview of the Open Banking Exchange Colombia Summit
A look back to the first Colombian summit with Open Banking Exchange, which connect the leading figures of Colombia's open…
The Chilean Government Present the Fintech Bill to Congress
After several years of planning and consulting, the Chilean government presented the Fintech Bill to Congress, with the main aim…
Delivering Corporate APIs as part of Open Finance
This article looks at corporate APIs from the perspective of increasing market demand, and frustration around what is available, and…
Open Finance: Who has the right to access Application Programming Interfaces?
Open Finance is generating a wave of innovation and investment while providing fundamental changes to how financial products and services…
URF Responses
During industry discussions in June 2021, the Colombian ministry of finance raised a number of questions about the direction and…
The Challenges and Best Practices of eIDAS Renewal
Many eIDAS certificates are reaching their 2-year term of expiring, this creates a problem for TPPs and banks. This article…
From Open Banking to Open Finance
Open Finance is a trending topic around the world. For the past two years, Europe has talked about Open Banking…
Updated PSD2 Certificate Standard, Ready for Open Finance
There are three Open Finance cases where there are demands for certificates that are standardised but where PSD2 compliancy is…
Open Banking Enabled Services
Open Banking Enabled Services are the services offered to End Users which rely fully or partially on Open Banking.
Delivering Brexit: New Year Changes to the European & UK Open Banking Environments
At midnight on New Year’s day 2020 UK banks, payment institutions and electronic money institutions lost their right to offer…
Chaos or Continuity? To Revoke or Not to Revoke PSD2 eIDAS Certificates during Brexit Cutover
The EBA has stated that following Brexit, eIDAS certificates will be revoked. If true, this will cause problems for UK-to-UK…
The Impact of Brexit on European Open Banking
What happens to PSD2 requirements on Access to Account when the UK leaves the EU?
Open Banking Exchange Europe Supplementary Comments for eIDAS Review
From our experience with facilitating secure communications supported by qualified certificates, we wish to highlight several points for eIDAS review.
PSD2 APIs and Payload Signing – Towards a European Security Profile
This article describes a problem that emerged with the PSD2 APIs, and covers the work that Open Banking Exchange Europe…
EBA Publication of NCA Abbreviations for Inclusion in eIDAS Certificates for PSD2
At the end of July 2019, the EBA officially published a standardised list of the names of the competent authorities.
How Many TPPs in Europe?
A few weeks before PSD2 Access to Account comes into force people are asking how many TPPs there actually are,…
PSD2: To Delay or Not to Delay? That is the Question
The TPP community is increasingly pushing for a delay to the regulatory deadline of 14th September 2019.
PSD2 Access to Account. Are We Nearly There Yet?
As any parent with young children knows, the favourite question on a road trip is “Are we nearly there yet?”…
PSD2 XS2A: Granting Access, Certificates and Registers
This post covers what is required when it comes to granting access, certificates and registers, in particular the checks and…
PSD2 & Open Banking Exchange Europe: Navigating into 2018
As we start a new year, and as PSD2 comes into effect, I wanted to give you a short message…
What are Open, Interoperable API’s for PSD2?
This post looks at the PSD2 text and then digs into what I think is meant by the words “API”,…