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On August 6, 2025, the interministerial team to increase competition in the retail banking sector (established by Israel’s Minister of Finance in collaboration with the Governor of the Bank of Israel) published its...more
Recently, the Fed published a research note examining the rise of Pay-by-Bank as a payment solution for consumers, focusing on its adoption at the point of sale as an alternative to cash or credit payment options. The note...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) open banking rules, issued under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, have been the subject of ongoing litigation since their finalization late last year. The litigation is...more
On July 29, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted the CFPB’s request to stay litigation challenging its open banking rule. The rule (previously discussed here) aimed to establish industry-wide...more
On June 29, an intervenor-defendant, a fintech association, filed a motion for summary judgment urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to uphold the CFPB’s Section 1033 rule. The fintech...more
The financial services industry generally, and data aggregators specifically, have watched intently as the Trump administration has altered the course of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”), in an...more
On May 23, the CFPB notified a Kentucky federal court that it now considers its own 2023 open banking rule “unlawful” and plans to set the rule aside. The Bureau announced its intent to seek summary judgement against the...more
On February 25, a federal judge in the United District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky approved a joint motion between the CFPB and banking trade groups to pause litigation over the agency’s 1033 open banking rule....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized its long-awaited Personal Financial Data Rights rules under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, marking a significant milestone in the regulation of...more
On November 14, 2024, the UK government unveiled its National Payments Vision (the Vision), a strategy designed to reshape the UK’s payments ecosystem. This Vision responds to the findings of the 2023 Future of Payments...more
The end of October marked the conclusion of another successful year of Money20/20, the premier event for the payments, banking, fintech, and financial services industries. If you missed the conference, fear not. Below is a...more
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu recently discussed the evolution and impact of open banking during remarks at the Spring FDX Global Summit. Defining open banking as “enabling consumer-permissioned sharing of...more
A report from the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform provides recommendations for how the UK can “re-imagine” its approach to regulation post-Brexit. On 16 June 2021, the Taskforce on Innovation,...more
Open banking is an important driver of the fintech revolution. Regulators have recognised open banking as a means of introducing competition and innovation in the banking sector. Likewise, fintechs are seizing the...more
As third-party access to consumer financial data expands, regulators balance innovation, customer choice, and data protection. Consumers’ rights to access and use their personal financial information has been a key focus of...more
Call for input: Industry needs to engage as the FCA moves forward on its transformative vision for open finance. Imagine a world in which you could access your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgage, pensions, savings...more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Michael Breslin recently moderated a panel of leading experts who discussed “What’s Hot in Financial Technology: Latest and Greatest Developments and Fintech Trends.” The panel gathered at the American...more
What is Open Banking? Open banking is a collaborative model in which banks and other similar regulated financial institutions are required to share their customers’ financial data with third parties upon the request of...more
In previous posts in our BankBCLP.com series on this topic, we’ve attempted to define “open banking” and the ways in which it is attracting increasing industry attention through open APIs. As our series continues, we describe...more
This post is the first in a series discussing open banking, its implementations, and its implications. “Open banking” is a phrase that has been coined to capture a current theme in financial sector innovation – one that...more