Brigit Carroll, policy lead, North America at Wise, returns to Open Banking Expo Unplugged to discuss the key announcements on consumer-driven banking from Finance Canada’s Budget 2024. She explains the importance of interoperability between Ca

The global state of Open Finance

Apr 17th, 2024 28m 25s

Ozone API’s co-chief executive officer Huw Davies and newly-appointed chair Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia join Ellie Duncan on Open Banking Expo Unplugged to discuss the global state of the Open Banking and Open Finance movement, from Latin America, t

How can the UK make the leap to Open Finance and beyond?

Apr 10th, 2024 35m 11s

Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan is joined on this episode by Stephen Wright, head of regulation and standards, at NatWest’s Bank of APIs, and his colleague, business architect Nisha Rajasingham, as well as Nilixa Devlukia, chai

Can Open Banking and Real-Time Rail come together in Canada?

Apr 4th, 2024 18m 6s

Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan is joined by Brigit Carroll, policy lead, North America at Wise, to hear about the latest real-time payments developments in Canada. Brigit discusses the recent changes to the Payments Act, as well as what the e

Three milestones set to shape European payments in 2024

Feb 26th, 2024 19m 13s

In this episode, Andrew Boyajian, vice president of product for payments and CX at Tink, identifies the three key milestones for European payments this year, starting with the main opportunities and challenges that European instant payment regu

What you need to know about Open Banking in the igaming industry

Feb 12th, 2024 29m

Stephen Winyard, director at Salt Edge, joins Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan to discuss how Open Banking can address some of the challenges and pain points faced by the igaming industry. He explains the applications and use cases for Open Ban

How the financial services industry is embracing change

Jan 29th, 2024 20m 32s

Radha Suvarna, chief growth and product officer at Finastra joins Ellie Duncan to discuss the key findings from the Financial Services State of the Nation Survey 2023. He explains what the survey reveals about how AI is being deployed for great

What role for Open Banking in the Future of Payments?

Jan 22nd, 2024 25m 10s

Joe Garner, who led the independent Future of Payments Review published alongside the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement in November last year, tells Ellie Duncan about some of the key recommendations. The former chief executive officer of Nationwid

How the economic crisis is shaping what banks should offer

Jan 15th, 2024 10m 11s

Sara Costantini, managing director UK and Ireland at CRIF, tells Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan about the findings from its latest ‘Banking on Banks’ report. She explains how Europeans feel about their finances compared to a year ago, and rev

Taking the lead on Open Finance in the UK

Jan 8th, 2024 34m 9s

Ezechi Britton, chief executive officer of the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) joins Ellie Duncan, head of editorial and broadcast at Open Banking Expo, on the podcast. He explains why CFIT is the right organisation to driv

Solving small business’ payment pain points the Xero and Crezco way

Dec 18th, 2023 23m 25s

Small business accounting platform Xero recently partnered with Crezco to help UK small businesses manage cash flow. Crezco’s chief executive officer and founder Ralph Rogge, and partnerships director David Schilperoort, joined Leigh O’Neill, E

What’s in store for Open Banking payments in 2024?

Dec 11th, 2023 25m 7s

Siamac Rezaiezadeh, vice president of product marketing and insights at GoCardless, joins Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan to reveal the key themes and trends set to define Open Banking payments in 2024. He considers what is on the horizon for

The future of competitive advantage in banking and payments

Nov 27th, 2023 30m 23s

Bottomline’s Zhenya Winter, head of global marketing, financial messaging and Edward Ireland, joint head of commercial product management, financial messaging, join Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan to discuss the findings of their latest survey

Facing up to the threat from Big Tech

Nov 20th, 2023 23m 6s

Igor Pejic is the author of Big Tech in Finance: How to prevail in the age of Blockchain, digital currencies and Web3. He joins Ellie Duncan to discuss the speed and scale of Big Tech’s entry into finance, with payments as the gateway, and why

Bringing retailers on the Open Banking journey

Oct 9th, 2023 19m 21s

Josh Graham, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Airtime Rewards, tells Ellie Duncan how he and co-founder Adam Ward came up with the idea for the UK-based loyalty scheme.

Getting the most out of mentoring

Sep 25th, 2023 17m 59s

Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan caught up with two of our Women in Open Banking members who were matched in our mentoring scheme to find out what they initially sought from mentoring and what they’ve both gained from the scheme. Surbhi Sharma,

Choosing an Open Banking payments provider

Sep 11th, 2023 34m 10s

Ellie Duncan is joined on this episode by Olga Karablina, head of payment product development and financial partnerships at Ecommpay and Katharina Luschnik, vice president, head of payments solutions sales at Mastercard Open Banking – Europe. T

Using VRPs in ETF investing

Sep 4th, 2023 19m 29s

In this episode, Tom Winterton, head of platform at InvestEngine, tells Ellie Duncan about how its instant payments partnership with TrueLayer came to fruition. He explains how InvestEngine is using variable recurring payments – the “latest ite

Trends in Canadian consumer data-sharing preferences

Aug 22nd, 2023 15m 5s

Saba Shariff, chief strategy, product and innovation officer at Symcor, joins Ellie Duncan to discuss the findings of the 2023 EY Open Banking Study, conducted in partnership with Symcor, which analyses trends in consumer data-sharing preferenc

Key considerations for creating data sharing ecosystems

Jul 18th, 2023 30m 14s

Liz Crews and Marie Walker from Raidiam, which built and delivered the world’s first trust framework, join Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan on the podcast. They share some of Raidiam’s key learnings, having been involved in the creation of open

On the acquisition trail with Zopa Bank

Jul 4th, 2023 14m 16s

Merve Ferrero, chief strategy officer at UK-based digital bank Zopa, tells Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan about the company’s journey from peer-to-peer lender, to fully licensed bank. She reveals how Zopa has remained resilient in a tough env

Why is digital transformation such a challenge for banks?

Jun 19th, 2023 29m 9s

Leda Glyptis, chief client officer at 10x Banking and author of ‘Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an industry in transition’ joins Ellie Duncan to discuss what is meant by transformation and why it is a genuine challenge or difficulty to overco

Addressing the needs of Canadian consumers and businesses

Jun 5th, 2023 23m 52s

David Hooper, VP, Open Banking and payments consulting at CGI, joins Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan to discuss Canada’s Open Banking and payments journey so far. He explains why Canada’s long-awaited Real-Time Rail and Open Finance will cross

The importance of trust in Canada’s hybrid Open Banking ecosystem

May 31st, 2023 33m 39s

What are the key elements that will enable trust in Canada’s Open Banking framework? In this episode, Symcor's head of new product development and corporate strategy Saba Shariff, along with Sarah Gowdy, VP, client engagement and innovation at

Taking Open Banking to ‘the next level’ in the UK

May 23rd, 2023 18m 54s

Marion King, chair and trustee of Open Banking Limited (OBL), joins Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan to explain why, following the publication of JROC’s recommendations for the UK’s Open Banking regime, she sees the organisation operating as “a