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Open finance – prepare now or be prepared to lose out

Open finance – prepare now or be prepared to lose out

Open finance is a unique business opportunity but it takes work to take advantage of it. Get on the fast track to a future powered by constant innovation.

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Build fraud prevention into your brand

Improve customer acquisition rates with digital identity services that prevent fraud and reduce onboarding dropouts. You can also generate new revenues by sharing relevant information with trusted partners.

Welcome a new age of hyper-personalised services

Give your customers what they want before they know. Our paper explains how harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning gives you a commanding view of every customer’s financial footprint to drive personalised experiences based on insight.

Remain insurance provider of choice

With the aggregation of policy information, third-party providers can begin to automate the renewal and switching process. When a policy is about to expire, you can go to the market, find the most competitive quote and start the renewal process.

Open up to open finance

Open finance is a great opportunity but it’s also complex. Get an expert view on what’s involved and follow GFT’s open finance roadmap to success.

The imperatives for the success of your open finance initiative

GFT’s open finance roadmap

Understand the scope, objectives and priorities of your open finance programme and secure executive commitment. Goals must be clear and communicated from the top down.

Adopt the right target operating model to deliver quantifiable open finance business benefits.

Consider APIs as products and commit to continuous optimisation and improvement.

Think cloud to ensure your solution is secure, open, and scalable. With cloud, you avoid unnecessary workload on your core systems.

Use modern methods, such as Agile and DevOps and implement a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for iterative build and release directly to production systems.

Engage early with third-party partners and the external developer community to encourage participation in development and prioritisation of your roadmap.

Learn lessons from open banking in the UK, PSD2 across Europe, and leverage successful approaches from other jurisdictions.

Keep abreast of regulations and build an open relationship with the regulators. Your success is in their interest.

GFT recommends a two-phase, multistream approach to open finance as the optimal approach. This facilitates concentration on the important aspects of business readiness and enablement, data availability and accessibility, community engagement and preparedness, and finally compliance with competitive advantage.

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