Reviewed developments in open banking, open finance and related technology.
A curated evidence set, not a live or exhaustive feed. Announcements, pilots and provider claims retain their original limits.
27 reviewed developments
Ninth Wave and AWS announced findings from their study of Compass, an onboarding assistant built with Amazon Bedrock. They report an up-to-95% reduction in API integration testing time.
Future Entity Design Steering Group appoints Ez Britton as independent chair.
Mollie and GoCardless announce that they have combined.
Data Energy selects GoCardless for recurring Pay by Bank.
OBL reports milestones of one billion payments and 100 billion API calls.
Ozone introduces a commercial variable recurring payments solution for non-CMA9 banks.
Salt Edge announced an investment in Sientia, linking open banking data with customer engagement and rewards.
Salt Edge and Domopay introduce Pay by Bank for rent.
OpenID Foundation describes its support for BIS Project Aperta, including Ozone and Raidiam contributions.
Mastercard announces Agent Pay for Machines.
Salt Edge reports production cVRP availability under the UKPI scheme.
FCA welcomes the launch of the UK Payments Initiative scheme.
Project Aperta publishes work on cross-border open-finance interoperability.
Project Agorá reports on a shared programmable platform for wholesale cross-border payments.
ADIB announces a third-party-provider licence under the UAE open-finance initiative.
FCA sets out a 2026–2030 open-finance roadmap.
FDX launches an initiative addressing AI agents in financial-data sharing.
OBL publishes Open Banking Standard v4.0.1.
Mastercard reports completed live agentic-payment transactions across the region.
TrueLayer completes its acquisition of Zimpler.
Santander and Mastercard report an end-to-end payment executed by an AI agent.
Konsentus examines how agentic AI changes financial consent.
GFT and Ozone partner to support Canadian institutions' open-banking transition.
Flanks and finReg360 announce EDX for standardised financial-data exchange.
Ninth Wave introduces Compass for AI-assisted API analysis and integration guidance.
Stripe introduces its Agentic Commerce Suite.
Google announces the Agent Payments Protocol, AP2.