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In the past few years new and innovative banks, also known as challenger banks, have entered the scene to disrupt the German consumer banking market. Even though a customer does normally not sign up for a new bank account every year, those new players have been recognised to attract and convert a rapidly growing digitally-savy customer ba...

PSD2 has been an important catalyst for banks to open up. While many banks in Europe are still focused on making the PSD2 deadline of September 2019, we see some leading banks move beyond compliance and shift towards Open API Banking. In this emerging Open Banking play, banks start to understand that enabling secure access to customer dat...

Where newer and smaller banks used to outclass the incumbent banks regarding the onboarding process, the recent INNOPAY benchmark shows a comeback of the established players. By now, there is no longer a need to visit the office to open an account. Now the question is: did the larger banks manage to compete with the challengers?

In episode #1 of INNOPAY’s “Meet the Vendor”, onboarding team lead Guy Rutten talks to Maarten Wegdam, founder and director of Innovalor. Innovalor is the company behind ReadID, an NFC chip reader that lets you onboard in seconds. In our series “Meet the Vendor” we introduce you to parties in the market that can help improve your onboard...

This article was first published in The Paypers which features thought leadership editorials from ecommerce and payments industry professionals. The concept of Open Banking and its potential grows steadily on corporate banks. PSD2 has been an important catalyst for banks in opening up, however, it forced them to focus on complying first,...