Citizens has spent more than two years working on its open banking strategy.Alex Kent/Bloomberg The Trump administration is doing away with a regulation designed to promote data sharing between banks and third parties. But for Citizens Financial, the move isn’t hindering its bullishness on the broader concept. “This doesn’t change our strategy,” Eric McCabe, Citizens’
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Visa has rolled out Visa A2A, its account-to-account payment scheme, in the U.K., allowing customers to manage bills and subscriptions through their banking app. It also allows merchants the ability to include more transaction data for reconciliation and to see when a consumer changes or cancels payment permissions. Visa A2A uses open
If you asked the average person on the street if they would like their bank account data to be treated in the same way as data on Instagram or Facebook — that is, shared with advertisers, vendors and service providers — the response would be a resounding: “No! Absolutely not!” Yet every day, millions of