Through the UK’s OBIE we have worked with TPPs, Banks, Regulators and many others to help create the most successful Open ecosystem in the World.
Now we can bring this support to YOU!
Support for all - value and experience
Now, we can bring that expertise to you, through:
- Participant Support – whether innovative startup to large Bank, we can help. From Onboarding to Production, we know the types of issue that can arise!
- Help Desk – An efficient, effective Central Support capability is vital. We can help build yours.
- Ecosystem Delivery – With our unique delivery process and partners, we can support you all the way through from Regulations to Production. In months!
- Innovation – We are committed to enhancing the capabilities of Open ecosystems, and support a variety of research projects.
See below or contact us for more information!
Fintechs
- Quicker!
- Cheaper!
- Better!
Launching and developing a new service is challenging – it takes courage!
Whether you are a startup Fintech with a great new idea or have been in Production for some time, our unique expertise is available to support you all the way.
We are committed to the idea of Open Banking, and therefore have a unique low cost subscription-based pricing model and beyond that you only pay for what you need. For some, we can be even more flexible – ask us for details!
Some ways we can help…
We believe in long term, expert collaboration through the whole delivery lifecycle…
- Onboarding and Registration – Our step-by-step guidance, and on-call assistance will get you up and running quickly!
- FCA Registration – Get it done in one hit with our FCA partner!
- Market Research – take advantage of our unique market insights to refine and prepare your business idea for growth.
- Partnering– Our introduction service to key collaborators gets you to market faster, better!
- Implementation – Our on- and off-shore developer teams are great value and highly skilled. They know OB.
- Testing – Accelerate your route to live without compromising on quality with our part- or full-time Test Managers.
- Integration – The easiest way to get you service to market is with integrators – but as you scale up, they can cost a lot and hit your margins. We have solutions.
- Funding – Need funds? Our specialist partners mentor you through the process and introduce you to the right funding organisation.
- Launch – A critical time. Let our experts guide you through the publicity and technical processes.
- Growth – Always someone on call to support your service as it grows.
- Internationalisation – Work with our local representatives in key OB ecosystems to launch your service in new Countries!
What our customers say…
Andrew Bonsall, CEO Aperidata – ‘We specialise in credit risk and decisioning and our innovative software maximises the power and opportunity of Open Banking. Since joining their TPP network OB Delivery have provided invaluable assistance at all steps of the product development. The advice has enabled us to deliver our services both more quickly and at lower costs. Anthony has introduced us to potential business partners, and totally understands the value of our products and shares our views on Financial inclusion and making lending decisions better for all. The breadth of their practical expertise in the Open Banking world is unparalleled – you simply wouldn’t get this from anyone who had not been deeply involved with Open Banking since early days. For the future, we are already planning Internationalisation. We would thoroughly recommend Anthony and OB Delivery to any aspiring TPP.’
Banks
Banks face unique challenges when adapting to the requirements of the World of Open Banking. They may be subject to Regulatory requirements, with sometimes challenging deadlines. They find themselves supporting multiple external TPPs, each of whom may have their own challenges. There may be skills shortages, especially for the smaller Banks. Integrating their work with many other participants presents new challenges. Finally of course, how do you turn what may appear a threat into a transformational new opportunity?
- Regulatory interpretation – what’s the best way to meet the requirements?
- Development – getting the skills in place
- Implementation – working with APIs
- Coordination with multiple participants – what’s the most efficient and appropriate approach that gets you to market?
- Supporting your TPPs
- Testing – options and approaches to testing your services.
- Launch – coordination with the ecosystem.
- Service assurance – maintaining your service as it grows.
- Internationalisation – launch your service in new territories.
Ecosystem Administrators
Open Banking ecosystems are complicated, and
coordination is ESSENTIAL!
Below we show how an ecosystem’s hardware and software components have to work within a much broader context in order for their potential to be achieved.
Without that, it’s simply a collection of separate bits…
Although the Regulatory Framework is usually quite slow-moving, changes do happen – especially around secondary legislation. The impact of this needs to be communicated across the ecosystem and changes coordinated. Conversely, feedback from the ecosystem participants often helps drive future Regulatory updatets. It is also important to be able to advise Regulators on overall progress towards achieving Regulatory compliance.
This in turn is driven by the Regulatory Framework. Reflect changes in ecosystem, demonstrate targets met.
An OB ecosystem needs the Directory and Trust Framework. This enables TPPs and ASPSPs to be validated and trusted, so reliable and secure communications can take place. But participants have generally not worked together before in this new environment… • They are unfamiliar with it • Banks might interpret standards differently etc.. So the ecosystem needs coordination.
Then TPPs need to build quality services — concept , code, integration, test, release, production. But this is not trivial • It’s complex, novel, integrated, courageous • ASPSPs are impacted, cultural clashes • Questions and Issues need resolving So the participants need support
Throughout need to measure progress, success, KPIs, user disputes So need to be able to integrate all information and report – MI This is our ecosystem…
This is our ecosystem… It’s complex – absolutely NOT plug and play. We make it work. We are proud to be the FIRST Consultancy in the World dedicated to Open Banking ecosystem support with actual experience of doing it.
And that’s what an Ecosystem Support Team does
The coordinating team make it work — all participants and activities other than the production and Directory & Trust Framework are impacted.
• ASPSPs – Compliance, design, roadmap, resolve issues, test advice, coordinate releases, MI
• TPPs – Onboarding, use cases, issues, testing, ecosystem status, API versions, MI
• Design, standards – Rollout planning, participant, feedback, future plans
• Regulatory – Guidance interpretation, detail ‘infill’, MI
We cannot emphasise enough – in our opinion such a role is critical. Simply because some Country OB initiatives have not planned for one does not make it optional. The most successful initiative in the World – the UK – had one and there is no guarantee the others shall succeed.
We are an independent consultancy with deep niche experience.
We can work with all partners to support the achievement of their potential.
We believe in a symbiotic relationship between our localised expertise and the broader, International, financial world.
Regulatory Authorities
We firmly believe that the technical components of an Open Banking (or Finance) ecosystem are now at the point of being commoditised, bringing dramatic improvements in cost and timescale for ecosystem rollout.
This also has a profound impact on HOW ecosystems can be delivered, with a far greater emphasis on what is actually required of the ecosystem – what do you want it to do?
Open Banking Delivery’s members and partners, through their extensive experience of the UK’s OBIE, provide a unique insight to the overall process of building an ecosystem – from Regulatory Standards through to Volume Production.
The combined impact of our unique experience and increasing commoditisation means that we can offer an ‘end to end’ ecosystem delivery process that is far cheaper, complete and rapid than earlier OB initiatives. It is also much more closely aligned to the original objectives.
This closer alignment is enabled through
Identifying the profile of a Country’s OB ecosystem requirements.
Ensuring those requirements are ‘mapped back’ to the original Regulatory Standards published
From the very beginning having a fully functional demonstration ecosystem acting as a ‘sandbox’ to ensure the project remains aligned and enable early identification of necessary adjustments.
Open Banking Delivery believe we have identified the principles behind the necessary requirements (e.g. low cost of participation) and underlying capabilities (e.g. ecosystem support) necessary for an effective, efficient ecosystem.
Which brings us to the question — just what does success really mean in an Open Banking ecosystem? The principles underpinning success are briefly discussed below. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
The Underlying Principles
We believe there are three categories of principle, introduced below. Each can then be broken down into a series of individual principles.
These represent the ‘driver’ requirements that are used to ensure the ecosystem that evolves is the best possible, and maximises the potential.
Fundamentals
This family of requirements need to be identified and in place before any further progress can be made. They set the scene for all that follows. The individual principles identified to date are:
• Trust
• Ease
• Support
• Cost and Funding
Making an Impact
This family of requirements help assure that given the fundamentals are in place, the potential is determined and everything is in place to deliver on that potential.
• Engagement
• Consumer Focus
• Identify the needs
• Drive Inclusion
• Widening the horizons
• Roadmap clarity
Measuring and Managing Success
How do you know that you have met the needs, and how well? What needs improving? What shall need to change in future to ensure service excellence is maintained?
• Success metrics
• Measuring engagement
• Assuring Ecosystem health
• Fit for growth