Open banking is growing 4x faster than contactless payments despite skeptics

Stefano Vaccino, Founder and CEO at Yapily on Riding Unicorns · The next wave of Open Banking and what it means for...

Everybody using account to account payment, people switching bank account, the PSM becoming a substitute for the bank.

13:55 / 14:39

Everybody was expecting a big bang effect overnight. Everybody using account to account payment, people switching bank account, the PSM becoming a substitute for the bank. In my view, it was a bit naive that anything financial services can happen as a big bank. Open banking has been growing very fast. On the payment side four times faster than contactless payment. And so we are in a space where the direction is very clear. Everything is moving to open finance via API, not just in UK, but in Europe, in The US now with section ten thirty three, and across the globe. So there are more than 80 jurisdictions that are

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Yapily's CEO pushes back against critics who expected open banking to transform financial services overnight. He argues that while the 'big bang' disruption didn't happen, open banking payments are actually growing four times faster than contactless payments and expanding globally across 80+ jurisdictions.

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Provides a contrarian perspective on open banking's success with specific growth metrics that challenge common misconceptions about its adoption rate.

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