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Banks equipping APIs feel ready to take on open finance

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Application programming interfaces, which are a set of rules facilitating the connection of two separate software applications for data sharing purposes, are a growing tool of use in the arsenal of banks joining the open finance movement.

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This preview of American Banker research, sponsored by Akoya, is a small portion of a much larger data set available to subscribers.

Top questions answered in the research

  • What stage of the open finance adoption cycle are banks and credit unions currently in?
  • What methods do financial institutions use to allow third parties to access customer account data?
  • What challenges are stopping institutions from furthering open finance adoption?
  • Do institutions feel confident in their current API practices?
  • Are open finance initiatives as important to institutions as it may seem?
  • Are respondents leading the way or falling behind when it comes to open finance adoption?

Key takeaways

  • Most respondents are currently in the assessment or strategy development stages of open finance adoption plans.
  • Many respondents either depend solely on APIs for sharing data with third parties, or can use APIs or screen scraping depending on the third party.

This two-part series dives into the data using interactive charts broken out into these main themes: the organizational significance of open finance and building the framework for open finance.

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What is holding banks back from an open finance future?

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