Banks should share financial data — to avoid being forced to

From: American Banker

By Håkan Nordfjell

In Europe, the open banking sea change has largely been brought about by the revised Payment Services Directive — known as PSD2 — which requires European banks to share data with financial technology companies if customers request they do so. The regulation aims to stimulate competition by giving fintech companies access to customer data that they have been collecting piecemeal for years (without banks’ authorization).

There are signs U.S. regulators could take a similar approach. Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau signaled its approach for mandating that banks allow access to the sharing of financial data.

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