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Global Risk Institute Report: Discussing Open Banking Regulation for Canada
Global Risk Institute | Markos Zachariadis, University of Manchester | Sep 24, 2020
Executive Summary: Data-sharing frameworks in financial services: Discussing open banking regulation for Canada
Data-sharing frameworks in financial services are becoming increasingly prevalent with the potential to shape drastically the future of banking and finance. As data assets are of strategic importance to financial institutions and central to their ‘datafication’ and digital transformation processes, sharing and accessing new data can alter the dynamics of competition and lead to the emergence of new players as well as nascent markets.
Innovative technologies such as application programming interfaces (APIs) can help simplify data communication between systems and thus standardize the exchange of information between organizations allowing them to experiment with new, more open, business models. APIs also give the ability to effectively control openness and orchestrate ecosystems of third-parties that can add value to organizations’ supply chain and end users. Having said that, the deployment of open APIs in financial services raises numerous questions regarding the appropriate regulatory (or not) framework and infrastructure for opening up data in the banking sector.
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The current paper examines the potential for an open banking framework in the Canadian market and makes an effort to identify the regulatory, economic, technological, sociological, and political debates in the industry concerning data openness. During the course of the study there was consensus from participants that discussing the “merits of open banking” or opportunities that it will bring is an outdated topic and instead the discussions should focus on the real issues and ‘pain-points’ around open banking implementation in Canada.
Following a good number of interviews with FinTechs, challenger and incumbent banks, regulators, legal experts, consultants, and financial services professionals (in various part of the business as well as IT) in the Canadian market, the paper outlines a number of themes and frictions that the industry as well as policy-makers in Canada should consider when implementing an open banking framework.
We believe that the findings can be generalized and be useful for practitioners and regulators around the world when exploring similar frameworks.
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