Companies

Lumin Digital Advances Secure Open Banking Connectivity with MX

Lumin Digital

“Lumin Digital announced an open banking integration with MX Technologies, Inc., giving financial institutions on the Lumin platform a standards-based way to connect users with third-party financial applications. The integration enables financial institutions on Lumin’s platform to allow retail and business users to safely connect their bank accounts to supported third-party financial apps without sharing […]

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Industry

Open Banking Has Proved Data Sharing Can Work – Now It Has to Prove It Can Create Value

Open Banking Expo

“The UK’s Open Banking ecosystem recently passed two significant milestones : more than one billion payments and 100 billion API calls across the CMA9 banks. Those figures matter. Open Banking is no longer an experiment operating at the edges of financial services. The infrastructure works at scale, adoption is growing and the market is moving […]

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Episode 301 - Casting Light on the Digital Euro, with Nicola Branzoli, Banca d'Italia

In this episode, Nicola Branzoli, Head of Division for the Digital Euro Regulation, Research, and Technical Support at the Banca d'Italia, joins Glenbrook's Ashley Lannquist and Simon Skinner for an in-depth exploration of the digital euro. Listen in as they cover the objectives and value proposition, design choices and pilot details, and what the digital euro means in the broader European payment context. 

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Personetics Partners with Plaid to Help Banks Win Account Primacy with Open Finance Intelligence

Personetics

“Personetics, the AI Cognitive Banking Platform, announced a partnership with Plaid, the data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. The integration gives banks and credit unions something they’ve rarely had before: a comprehensive view of a customer’s financial life, combining their own account data with transactions, liabilities, investments, and related financial activity from wherever a […]

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Industry

Education: Account 2 Account Payments

Opinium

“For more than a decade, Account-to-Account (A2A) payments have been portrayed as the next major evolution in payments. A2A payments are, at their simplest, the movement of money directly from one bank account to another. They encompass a range of payment mechanisms including traditional bank transfers, Faster Payments in the UK, SEPA Credit Transfers and […]

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Matera Releases Open Source X9.150 Payment QR Code Implementation to Accelerate Industry Adoption

Yahoo Finance

“Matera, a leading provider of modern banking technology, today announced the release of an open source implementation of the ANSI X9.150 Merchant-Presented Payment QR Code Standard, making it easier than ever for financial institutions, fintechs and developers to begin working with the new interoperability standard.”

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Flywire Expands Trustly Partnership to Deliver Open Banking Payments Across the U.S. and Canada

Flywire

“Flywire Corporation announced expanded support for open banking payments in the U.S. and Canada with Trustly, allowing payers to conveniently authorize secure, large domestic and cross-border payments directly from their bank accounts and in their local currency. When choosing to pay with Trustly Pay by Bank, payers simply use their existing online bank login credentials during […]

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Introducing Zilch Extra, Zilch Plus, Pay Monthly and Advance

Zilch

“Members earn more rewards on everyday purchases, unlock priority customer support access to Zilch Advance. Zilch Extra: turns an Open Banking connection into sharper offers, spending insights, and rewards.  Zilch Plus: pays members up to 6% back in rewards when using debit, and up to 1% when using credit. Zilch Advance: uses AI-enabled open banking […]

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Episode 299 - The Evolving Payments Regulatory Environment in the European Union, with Scott McInnes, Bird & Bird

In this Payments on Fire episode, Glenbrook’s Chris Uriarte and Samantha Gordon continue their global payments regulation series with Scott McInnes, Partner at Bird & Bird, focusing on the European Union. Tune in as they explore the EU’s highly regulated landscape, the challenges of inconsistent national enforcement across 27 member states, and developments on current regulatory topics.

Companies

Open Banking: A Critical Piece in the Future of Financial Services

Kansas City Federal Reserve

“Open banking enables consumers to securely share data from their bank accounts with third-party service providers. By using application programming interfaces, open banking facilitates innovations such as Pay-by-Bank payments, instant bill payments, and cash-flow-based lending. While regulatory efforts are underway at both federal and state levels, technological and operational barriers and a lack of standardization […]

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Industry

ABA, Associations Ask Agencies to Commit to Reproposing Conflicting Genius Act Rules

ABA Banking Journal

“As the various federal banking agencies race to establish separate regulations for stablecoin issuers, they should be open to reproposing any rule that conflicts with a regulation put forward by another agency, the American Bankers Association and three banking associations. In a joint letter to the banking agencies, the associations said there has been little […]

Industry

Vought Calls for More CFPB Oversight, Says Open Banking Proposal Coming Soon

ABA Banking Journal

“The CFPB has been in legal fights over its implementation of Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the “open banking” rule that requires financial institutions to make a consumer’s financial information available to them or a third party at the consumer’s direction. Vought said the CFPB is “very close” to a proposed rule to replace […]

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Mid-Year Payments Check-In: Revisiting Our 2026 Predictions

The Glenbrook team is taking stock in June 2026 to see how the payments trends predictions from our January Payments on Fire episode are holding up.

Companies

GoCardless Powers Open Banking Payments Within Intelligent Billing Platform

Open Banking Expo

“Bank payment company GoCardless has become the exclusive integrated payment provider for Intelligent Billing, a specialised billing and data processing platform designed for complex recurring revenue models. GoCardless will provide direct debit and Open Banking payment services directly within the Intelligent Billing platform, enabling telecoms operators and managed service providers (MSPs) to automatically initiate, manage […]

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Episode 295 - Fanning the Flames - 2026 Mid-Year Payments Industry Trends Update

The Glenbrook team is taking stock in June 2026 to see how the predictions from our January episode are holding up. Tune in for updates on trending topics in payments, including agentic commerce, stablecoins, cross-border and instant payments, risk and fraud, and the regulatory landscape. We also share insights on the “hot off the presses” news on tokenized deposits and the Visa/Mastercard interchange settlement.