Nordea was one of the first banks in Europe to see the potential opportunities offered by PSD2 (Payment Services Directive) regulations which require banks to open up to third parties to offer services to account holders. Moving in leaps and bounds since then, the organisation is continuing to shape Europe’s Open Banking market, recently announcing its new API-enabled Instant Reporting tool for corporate clients.

We caught up with Ville Lauttamus, Product Owner – Open Banking Identity & Access at Nordea to get some tips on how Australian banks can effectively implement Open Banking measures to not only comply with regulatory requirements but also best commercialise the opportunities it is set to enable, ahead of Open Banking Sydney 2019.

Ahead of Open Banking Sydney 2019, we offer you a look at some exclusive presentations from the May 2019 Melbourne event. Enjoy insights from:

• Damian Fitzgibbon, Open Banking Engineering Manager at NAB
• Georgios Miltiadous, Head of Open Banking Delivery at HSBC UK
• Paul Moss, General Manager Technology, Operations and Product at MyState Bank

Building up to the Feb 2020 deadline, there is no shortage of information on the meaning and implications of Open Banking. However, there is certainly a deficiency of tangible use cases

to learn from around what the innovation & delivery strategies might look like. The Open Banking and APIs Summit 2019 has been specifically designed to address this.

The looming deadlines around open banking have seen financial institutions focus their time and investment on compliance. As these regulatory changes begin to take effect, organisations must also consider how they can best take advantage of new opportunities surrounding this space in order to provide attractive offerings to customers, and gain ROI on the large investment required.

In order for traditional financial institutions to best adapt to these changes and tackle challenges which are faced regarding privacy and data sharing security concerns, developing effective partnerships and collaborations with third parties in this space is crucial to ensuring compliance, increasing value, and driving customer trust.

With this in mind, we caught up with Paul Chapman, CEO at Moneytree, a Japan-based asset management service that has already experienced a post open banking environment to learn more about how the Australian market can best prepare themselves, ahead of Open Banking Sydney 2019.