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How can the UK make the leap to Open Finance and beyond?
Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan is joined on this episode by Stephen Wright, head of regulation and standards, at NatWest’s Bank of APIs, and his colleague, business architect Nisha Rajasingham, as well as Nilixa Devlukia, chair of the Open Finance Association. The guests consider what is required for the UK to make the move from Open Banking to Open Finance, and what might be causing progress to stall. They also discuss Europe’s payment services regulation, and the outcomes from CFIT’s Open Finance Coalition.
Ellie Duncan
Ellie Duncan
Head of Content Open Banking ExpoFormer Financial Times Group journalist Ellie Duncan has a decade of experience across financial services. While arguably best-known for her asset management work, she has also covered open banking, credit, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Nilixa Devlukia
Nilixa Devlukia
Chair Open Finance AssociationNilixa is the chair of the Open Finance Association, an industry body representing the demand side of open banking and open finance.
Nilixa is also the founder of Payments Solved a consultancy advising on the regulatory framework open banking and open finance. Digital assets, CBDC and payment services both in the UK and globally. Nilixa is an experienced regulatory expert and lawyer with a Masters in European Competition Law and over 20 years of banking and payments experience gained from her time at Barclays, the FCA, the European Banking Authority and as Head of Regulatory at the Open Banking Implementation Entity. Nilixa has worked extensively with the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the World Bank and regulators across the globe. Nilixa has represented the UK and FCA on various EU and UK level committees including the ECB SecurePay Forum, the EU API Evaluation Group, the UK Payment Strategy Forum, the ECB Market Advisory Group for a Digital Euro and currently sits on the EU Payments Systems Experts Group and Data Expert Group. Nilixa is a well know public speaker and works with industry, regulators and legislators to drive changes in the financial services ecosystem for services that are secure, transparent and inclusive.
Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright
Industry Engagement & API Standards Lead NatWestLead for Open Banking / Finance industry and regulatory engagement and API standards at NatWest Group. He has been involved in Open Banking eco-system since the Open Banking Working Group in 2015 and the formation of the Open Banking Implementation Entity in 2016.
Initiated the NatWest Open Banking programme and have delivered Open Banking and PSD2 APIs over the past five years. He is interested in the development of commercial API standards and business models.
