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January 24, 2022

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Reports 28 Million Consumer Accounts Use FDX API for Open Finance and Open Banking

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) today reports 28 million consumer accounts now use its FDX API for open finance and open banking data sharing. Since the group’s last report, more than one million additional consumer accounts were transitioned to the FDX API per month, representing an increase of six million additional consumer accounts that use the FDX API. FDX also reports that FDX API calls increased to more than 2.2 billion per month – indicating an expansion of data usage in the FDX API.”

November 1, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Adds 26 New Members

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) has welcomed 26 new members since May 2021, bringing its total membership to 208 organizations. FDX members include financial institutions, financial data aggregators, fintechs, payment networks, consumer groups, financial industry groups and utilities and other stakeholders. FDX works through its members to define and promote adoption of its common, interoperable, and royalty-free FDX API standard for financial data sharing.”

October 21, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange Releases FDX API 5.0

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) today announced a major update of its common open finance standards via the release of FDX API version 5.0. The new version of the FDX API significantly increases market standardization of financial data sharing around consent, user control and consumer dashboards, and aligns with other global standards like the Open ID Foundation’s Financial-grade API (FAPI) security standard and the insurance industry’s ACORD annuity standards to promote greater interoperability and industry adoption.”

September 1, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Reports 22 Million Consumer Accounts on FDX API

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) today reports that 22 million consumer accounts are now using its FDX API for open finance data sharing. Since FDX’s last report in April 2021, over 1 million additional consumer accounts per month were transitioned to the FDX API, representing an increase of 6 million more consumer accounts using the FDX API today since this spring. FDX also reports that API calls have surged to just shy of 2 billion per month which illustrates the expansion of data usage in the FDX API.”

May 25, 2021

On the web

The Great Data Debate: An Akoya Point Of View

Forbes

“There is a great battle being waged on your behalf and chances are you don’t even know it. Every day millions of people transact online, in stores, and in mobile apps.  All that detail of who, how much, and when you paid them is the heart of one of the most controversial topics in financial services – Who is in control of customer financial services data?   If you are not a fintech or banking nerd and you’re wondering how you missed all this, it’s because the battle is playing out across exciting mediums like bank board meetings, fintech leadership calls, and CFPB response letters. The occasional headline surfaces about a bank agreement with Plaid or an Akoya deal with a major solution provider like Jack Henry, but then everyone goes back to their lives without really understanding what these agreements are about or why it’s such an important inflection point in the industry.”

May 19, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange Releases FDX API 4.6

“The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) has announced its Spring release of FDX API 4.6 including enhanced payment services, coverage of over 600 unique financial data elements, and a new Credit Management use case that will allow consumers to share and use their own financial data through the FDX API with applications covering lending and credit scoring.”

May 4, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Adds 18 New Members

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) has welcomed 18 new members since the beginning of 2021, bringing its total membership to 186 organizations. FDX members include financial institutions, financial data aggregators, fintechs, payment networks, consumer groups, financial industry groups and utilities and other stakeholders. FDX works through its members to define and promote adoption of common, interoperable, and royalty-free standards for financial data sharing that are the foundation of open banking and open finance.”

April 21, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange Reports 16 Million Consumers Now Using FDX API for Financial Data Sharing

“The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) today reported that 16 million North American consumers are now using its FDX API for open banking and open finance data sharing. This milestone solidifies the U.S. and Canada as the global leaders in open banking and open finance API adoption. Today’s updated adoption metrics represent growth of an additional 4 million consumers that have been transitioned from credential-based data sharing and screen scraping to the industry-led FDX API standards since FDX’s most recent adoption survey in late 2020.”

April 8, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Announces Results of Annual Strategic Survey

The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) today announced results from its 2021 annual strategic survey of its members. The FDX strategic survey provides an inside look at where leading financial firms are prioritizing technical standards work for consumer-permissioned data sharing and how the marketplace is maturing. Specific to the 2021 survey, FDX members indicated a desire to prioritize work on consent and sensitive data across the organization’s many work streams including the FDX API, data use cases, user experience and security.”

February 3, 2021

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange Adds 33 New Members

“The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) welcomed 33 new members in the past 4 months, bringing the total membership to 168 organizations. The group is collectively working to transition the financial services ecosystem to a modern, transparent, and secure API-based financial data sharing approach. Since its launch in 2018 with 21 founding members, FDX experienced an eightfold increase in members. The growing membership is also reflected in the rapid adoption of the FDX API, as data providers, such as financial institutions, data access platforms, like financial data aggregators, and data recipients such as fintech apps, are collectively transitioning to the standard.”

September 14, 2020

On the wires

Financial Data Exchange Adds 39 New Members with Expanding International Footprint

“The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) has welcomed 39 new members since April 1, 2020, bringing the total membership to over 140 organizations that are working to collectively transition the financial services ecosystem to a modern, transparent and secure API-based data sharing approach.Since its launch in October 2018 with 21 founding members, FDX has seen an over sixfold increase in members and recently announced the formation of the FDX Canada Working Group.”

July 30, 2020

On the wires

Leading Canadian Financial Services Firms Launch FDX Canada

“Financial Data Exchange, LLC (FDX) has officially launched in Canada, with 31 organizations leading the country’s financial services ecosystem in joining FDX and taking part in its mission to develop a secure, common, interoperable, flexible and royalty-free industry standard for financial data sharing. “The launch of FDX Canada proves the success of this industry-led initiative to bring leading organizations in the Canadian financial services ecosystem together around a common financial data sharing standard that will protect consumers and business and simplify their banking experiences” said Don Cardinal, Managing Director of Financial Data Exchange.”

April 27, 2020

On the wires

Inlet Joins Financial Data Exchange (FDX) to Strengthen Customer Control of Financial Data

Inlet, a secure eBill presentment and delivery platform that provides millions of bills each year to bank bill payment destinations servicing both consumers and businesses, announced it will participate in the Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a non-profit organization committed to developing and promoting a single industry standard for financial data sharing. As an FDX member, Inlet joins more than 100 industry partners who are defining an interoperable, secure data sharing standard that will improve efficiency, transparency, security and consumer control of how financial data is shared among all participants of the financial services ecosystem.”

Financial Data Exchange Surpasses 100-Member Milestone – Computer Services, Inc., PAi Retirement Services, PayPal, and Sovos Among 22 New Members Joining

“The Financial Data Exchange (FDX) welcomed 22 new members between January 1 and March 31, 2020, bringing the total membership to 103 organizations that have committed to collectively transitioning to a modern, transparent and secure data sharing approach.  Since its launch in October 2018 with 21 founding members, FDX has seen a nearly fivefold increase in members. The growing membership is also reflected in the rapid adoption of the FDX API, as data providers, such as financial institutions, and data access platforms (aggregators), are collectively transitioning to the standard. This translates to more than 12 million U.S. consumers, who are now accessing their financial data through FDX’s standard.”

January 27, 2020

On the wires

Ally, Discover, MassMutual, and TransUnion Among 25 New Members Joining the Financial Data Exchange

“FDX represents an industry-wide movement to enhance consumer and business controls of financial data, through its FDX API and technical standards that prioritize the group’s Five Core Principles of Financial-Data Sharing – Control, Access, Transparency, Traceability and Security.   The growing membership is also reflected in the rapid adoption of the FDX API, as data sources, such as financial institutions, and data service providers (aggregators) are collectively transitioning to this modern data sharing standard. In October 2019, members reported over 5.26 million U.S. customers on the standard and were expecting to have it rolled out to 8 million customers by late 2019 and approximately 12 million by April 2020.”

August 29, 2019

On the wires

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