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Open Banking and PSD2 have already started to create new opportunities to streamline payments and cash management in UK and Europe.
Open Banking is a regulatory initiative that forces UK banks to create open interfaces into previously-locked customer accounts and payment systems. The objective is to simplify how financial information is retrieved, shared and presented. Across multiple banks and bank accounts, consumers and businesses are now able to consolidate, view, and access their banking information, and securely initiate payments from a single interface or authorised Third Party Provider (TPP).
It means that all UK-regulated banks have to allow you to share financial data electronically and securely through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - as long as you give permission. It opens the way to new products and services that could help both you and your customers get a better deal and give you a more detailed understanding of your accounts.
68% of companies are multi-banked and could take advantage of Open Banking
Following a slow start as the industry found its feet, Open Banking Payment Initiation Services (PIS) and Open Banking Account Information Services (AIS) are gathering momentum, allowing payment initiation providers (PISP) to provide businesses customers a new way to pay to increase conversion at the checkout and help them save up to 50% on card fees.
Synonymous to Open Banking, PSD2 (the revised Payment Services Directive) is a similar regulation that is being introduced and legislated in Europe.
The Open Banking initiative came into effect on 13th January 2018. It is overseen by the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), governed by the Competitions and Market Authority (CMA), and is funded by the UK’s nine largest banks and building societies.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) acknowledged that it was incredibly difficult for new banks and financial technology providers to gain access to the market and compete with larger, incumbent banks.
The Open Banking payment initiative will stimulate greater innovation in the financial services sector and open up competition in the banking industry. It will bring change, opportunity and opens a whole new world of monetary management possibilities for those wishing to take advantage of it; specifically, new entrants to the market will be able to access the same data and services as traditional banks.
Impact on banks: It means that customer data is no longer ‘owned’ by any financial institution, but by the customer, and customers are no longer tied to the packages and services offered by a single bank or provider.
Competition will now increase and services and products that you offer must be attractive to win market share.
Impact on providers: As an authorised TPP (third party provider), you will be able to offer innovative new solutions, to improve your competitive advantage, and drive new revenue streams. Specifically, you will be able to tailor offerings to the consumer or business’ circumstances and financial standing.
Impact on customers: Open Banking consolidates how your bank account information is accessed and managed, and how you make payments. You will also have access to a greater choice of services.
In practice, you will be able to have your current account with one provider, and a loan, mortgage, insurance policy, or investment policy from various other suppliers and be able to manage them from one user interface made available by an authorised provider of choice.
Banks: Every bank is mandated to create open and secure APIs (application programming interfaces) in order that customer data can be shared with authorised third-party applications in a secure, common and consistent format. This deadline was January 2018, although 5 of the 9 traditional banks were given an extension for such compliance. Providers: There is no compliance deadline for providers, but any institution or business that wants to access accounts must be approved, registered and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a Third-Party Provider (TPP).
Customers: There are no compliance requirements from a customer perspective, but you do need to give permission for your data to be shared by a bank. At present, this only applies to current account data:
Bottomline is deploying the latest Open Banking capabilities to help transform our customer’s operations and offerings. Areas of modernization include real time reconciliation of FX trades, real time funding of accounts, reduced data costs from SWIFT charges, speedier AML processes by using pre-approved bank data, a better integrated customer journey and the opening up a new channel of payment for the customers. The service is 24x7 and supported by our award-winning operations team in the UK. All solutions are achieved via a bundle of Open Banking ‘read’ (AISP) and ‘write’ (PISP) APIs that Bottomline deliver via our accreditation as a Third Party Provide (TPP).
Bottomline’s Financial Messaging (FM) solutions are recognised and trusted by 600+ customers in 92 countries, across 6 continents for SaaS-enabled payments, securities, connectivity and messaging with a track record of success. FM connectivity solutions leverage multiple domestic & cross-border payment networks and schemes, including SWIFT, UK Faster Payments, RT1, TIPS, Bacs, Six, EBICS, Visa and others to enable our clients to deliver added value to their customers.
As one of the top SWIFT service bureaus globally, we serve 450+ customers, managing 15% of all international cross border traffic. Our global experience and expertise for financial messaging and ISO 20022 implementation includes message translation, validation, transformation, Intelligent routing, orchestration and integration.
Customers trust us with the processing of payment instructions for many millions of pounds, dollars, Euros and other currencies daily through our Managed Services. Overall, our solutions allow financial institutions and corporations to achieve lower costs, enjoy high visibility on their payment flows, greater security and improved risk management, while avoiding the costly internal infrastructure and software updates for legacy on-premise solutions.
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Bottomline delivers a single SaaS platform for payments, securities and messaging that helps financial institutions and corporates to achieve lower costs, wider reach through open banking, speed-to-market, greater security and improved risk management.
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Bottomline is a trusted, secure transaction processor that offers interoperability between open banking, Swift and many more networks. These are typically via APIs that can be easily integrated into our existing customer arrangements, tailored for new customers or indeed is agnostic as a wrap-around for other 3rd party infrastructures. All solutions are achieved via a bundle of existing Open Banking ‘read’ and ‘write’ APIs and a deep knowledge of the financial services landscape.
Digitalization and the world of APIs has accelerated through both the pandemic and the various open banking initiatives globally, already live or in implementation mode in more than 40 different countries. Whether open banking is mandated or left to market forces across nation states, every player needs a simple, smart and secure way of connecting into the ecosystem. To compete in a digital world, one has to understand the industry problems that need solving, become world class at API connectivity for real-time payments and data and then work out how to apply the new capabilities under a modernization framework.
Open Banking is spreading globally with regulation and mandates driving innovation. The historic batch-led processes, paper-based checks and multi-day onboarding workflows are becoming uncompetitive and the associated payment revenues are under threat.
Example 1: Savings Banks
Needs and pain points
Use Open Banking APIs for REAL-TIME data and REAL-TIME payments, for instance, Bottomline enables the customer to load accounts inside the same onboarding bank session, enabling real-time payments at application and provides visibility on other Banking relationships your new customer holds all of which reduce application drop-outs and the associated costs. The service is 24x7 and supported by our award-winning operations team in the UK.
Example 2: FX Providers
Bottomline enables real time reconciliation of FX trades, real time funding of accounts, reduced data costs from Swift charges, speedier AML processes by using pre-approved bank data and opens up a new channel of payment for the customers. The service is 24x7 and supported by our award-winning operations team in the UK.
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Benefits of Bottomline’s Open Banking as a Service Solutions
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“The WRITE story” (aka PISP)
IN THE NEWS AND RESOURCES
Bottomline, Truelayer, Barclays UK and NatWest give their view on the future of Open Banking.
To help financial institutions and businesses from all over the world find the right Open Banking and innovation partner to create more tailored offers and propositions, and to overcome the challenges in Open Banking, The Paypers has created an exhaustive outlay of the global Open Banking ecosystem in the guise of a thorough infographic and industry mapping of key solution providers in Open Banking and their core offerings and solutions.
Open Banking Expo caught up with Bottomline’s General Manager & Director, Payments, Ed Adshead-Grant ahead of Open Banking Expo on 4th November.
It is clear from the fact that 22% have stated that they are fully operational that we are now successfully passing through the early adopter phase and we are moving into more mainstream planning and embedding into the customer journey. It is wonderful to see 31% have open banking on their wish list. However, the 16% who have said they need more information need better support as it isn’t fair to expect the market to educate itself. The uses of 'powered by Open Banking' are very wide with an abundance of use cases available, although many still haven’t been properly explored in the world of real time instructions (PISP) and real time data pulls (AISP)
As a market leader in business payment solutions, Bottomline can offer the appropriate products, technology and industry guidance to banks, third-party providers and businesses wishing to take advantage of the Open Banking initiative.
Payment Initiation Services (PIS) are provided by Bottomline Payment Services, who are authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Services Regulations for the provision of payment services with FCA registration number 616279.
Bottomline believes that Open Banking is a game-changer. The playing field between traditional financial service firms, smaller fintechs and challenger banks will level out. Whilst we can expect to see an influx of innovative and competitive products disrupting existing market share, it is more likely that we’ll see competition evolve into collaboration.
Without doubt, Open Banking is a catalyst for innovation, although there is still much to be done in educating financial decision-makers on the risks and opportunities as new payment technologies emerge. The initiative is also fertile ground for fraudsters, so we expect that the issue of secure customer authentication needs tightening before both PSD2 and Open Banking can reach its full potential.
It is anticipated that Open Banking will impact other industry initiatives including:
Unquestionably, Open Banking provides an opportunity for quicker responses on design, and the delivery of new standards and data streams. However, its success may hinge on consumers' willingness to trust and embrace it.
Bottomline has announced the launch of Pay Direct. This new Open Banking payment initiation service (PIS) gives companies a more efficient and cost-effective way to receive online payment from customers by enabling online businesses to receive funds directly from the payer’s bank account via Faster Payments.
73% of us regularly interact with our banks online and via our mobile devices, watch this short video to find out how Pay Direct can support your open banking requirements.
In this episode on the Payments Podcast we talk about the benefits and changes both ‘Request to Pay’ and ‘payment direct from bank account’ will have on the landscape.
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