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The EU’s fifth Anti Money Laundering Directive (AMLD5) comes into force in all Member States on 10 January 2020. This latest version of the directive broadens its regulatory scope by including two types of crypto service providers (CSP): virtual-fiat exchanges and custodian wallet providers. The main driver behind this regulatory update i...

Legal drivers such as GDPR and PSD2 in Europe and CDR in Australia are enabling the customer with more ownership and control over its own data. As a result, the customer is increasingly empowered to more easily provide consent-based access to his/her data by a service provider of choice. This trend is accelerating across countries, indust...

Innovations are happening faster than ever in the world of payments and data, driven by a major trend towards providing consumers increasing control of their data. According to Vincent Jansen, Partner at INNOPAY, and his colleague Mounaim Cortet, head of Open Banking, Open Banking is actually the start of something much bigger: an Open Da...

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Open Banking has seen considerable activity in the last few months. Indeed, with the EU’s compliance deadline for PSD2 looming, Open Banking developer portals have emerged in great numbers, with 300-plus banks now in our monitor. In the recent release of the INNOPAY Open Banking Monitor (OBM), updated in August 2019, we described the cur...