Faith Reynolds
What is Open Banking? How could it support your business or social enterprise?
Is your data safe?
And is there a danger that Open Banking might facilitate discrimination against people who are already financially vulnerable?
Faith Reynolds is the Open Banking Consumer Representative. She’s part of a steering group responsible for delivering the technology that underpins the Open Banking initiative.
In May I interviewed Faith for the Responsible Finance podcast, which I produce. Since her interview will also be of interest to listeners to my Business Live radio show, I broadcast it in the latest (7 June) episode.
Faith describes how and why you might choose to share your data through Open Banking; how the technology works; controlling who has access to your data; how Open Banking could address late payment issues, and more.
Here’s the podcast, which you can also access in iTunes, Stitcher or Spotify. Full timings are below.
Timings:
- 0 – 5:05 introduction and updates: UK Social Enterprise Awards are open for entries; recap of last week’s show; forthcoming events including the Social Enterprise Exchange meetup and a free SEO training and website analysis session from Mantra Media; getting in touch,
- 5:05 Open Banking and Faith Reynolds
- 6:00 What is Open Banking? A couple of examples of how and why you might choose to share your data – and an introduction to payment initiation.
- 8:45 Aggregating financial information into one place.
- 9:10 How does the technology work? How do people control who has access to their data?
- 11:07 firms accessing Open Banking data need to be registered and approved by the FCA and Open Banking.
- 12:55 If providers don’t continue to meet regulations what penalties could be imposed? And what happens if money leaves your account which you’ve not authorised?
- 14:00 What about data breaches?
- 15:00 How to protect yourself from scams.
- 16:15 What questions should you ask of firms wanting access to your data through Open Banking?
- 19:55 Somewhere along the line a service has to be paid for, so find out how.
- 21:26 How can Open Banking help people who are financially excluded?
- 24:35 The concept of digital pots and spending alerts can help people budget more effectively.
- 26:28 Debt advice can be made easier through Open Banking, says Reynolds.
- 27:50 How biometrics could be used to help create more financial inclusion.
- 28:30 What about people with no bank account?
- 30:00 Jam-jarring to allocate money to different budgets.
- 31:30 Payment initiation can also help people with low and fluctuating incomes, as it’s more flexible than direct debits.
- 32:50 A future scenario: combining financial, energy use and other data could alleviate fuel poverty.
- 34:10 How can Open Banking benefit businesses, social enterprises and the self-employed?
- 36:10 Payment initiation can be a much less expensive way for small businesses to accept card payments – saving alot of money.
- 37:10 “Request to Pay” could also deal with late payment issues, says Faith.
- 38:20 How will Open Banking help Responsible Finance providers (and credit unions) – and what should they be doing and thinking about?
- 41:49 Will Open Banking facilitate discrimination against, or penalties for, the financially vulnerable?
- 45:52 What developments will we see in Open Banking over the next 12-24 months?
- 47:00 And which of these will be most relevant to responsible finance providers?
- 47:50 Faith has a long-term commitment to financial inclusion. How has this influenced her work?
- 52:32 – end wrapping up
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- Find the Open Banking website here and the list of regulated providers here.
- Sheffield Live’s website is here.
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