Tink’s VP of payments and platforms Tom Pope tells Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan why variable recurring payments (VRPs) are the most significant development in Open Banking to date.

Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan is joined by Saba Shariff, Head of new Product Development & Corporate Strategy at Symcor, to discuss the adoption of Open Banking in Canada, and why trust, security and privacy are so critical to its success.

This year’s Open Banking Expo Awards are open for entries until 14 April. Co-chairs of the Awards judging panel Dr Ruth Wandhofer, CEO of Leximar and chair of the PSR Panel, and David Parker, CEO of Polymath Consulting, tell Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan what they look for in an award-winning entry and their top tips.

In this episode, Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan and guests discuss what financial institutions are already doing and what more they can do to tackle climate change.

Oliver Prill, CEO of business banking platform Tide, joins Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan on the podcast to talk about its Open Access proposition.

In this episode of Unplugged, TrueLayer’s senior product manager Matt Parish tells Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan about the opportunities for fintechs and banks from the Competition and Markets Authority’s decision last year to mandate VRPs for sweeping.

Adi Ben-Ari founded Applied Blockchain in 2015 and in this episode of Unplugged, he tells Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan what set him off on the path to exploring the Open Banking opportunities in blockchain, including the first privacy-preserving open banking solution.

Volt co-founder and newly-appointed chief operating officer Steffen Vollert joined Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan in this episode of the Unplugged podcast to discuss fraud.

He explains Swiss consumers’ attitudes to data sharing and the banking industry, and why this might account for slower Open Banking adoption than in other European countries. Fabian also offers his views on which fintech and bank collaborations have produced positive results in Switzerland.

In this episode, Open Banking Expo’s head of content Ellie Duncan is joined by Ghela Boskovich, head of Europe at the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), to explain how FDATA ensures that the voice of European fintechs is well represented and why it’s important for the lobbying group’s members to have a “fair and competitive” playing field so that they can fulfil the mandate of PSD2.