Mr. Open Banking
Episodes
LIve @ Money 20/20, 2025 - 1033: The Great Debate
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, Eyal is joined by two guests at the center of the great debate surrounding open banking in the United State...
Live @ Open Banking Expo Canada, 2025 - Canada Strong
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Open Banking Expo Canada in Toronto, Eyal is joined by Saba Shariff, Chief Strategy, Product & Innovation Officer at Symcor, a le...
Live @ Fintech Americas, 2025 - Only Human
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Fintech Americas in Miami, Florida, Eyal is joined by author and advisor Chris Colbert, former Managing Director at the Harvard Innov...
Live @ Fintech Americas, 2025 - Brazil Redux
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Fintech Americas in Miami, Florida, Eyal is joined by Matheus Rauber, Senior Advisor and Head of the Open Finance division at the Cen...
Live @ Money 20/20, Oct 2024 - The U.S. Cores
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode recorded live from Money 20/20 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Eyal sits down with leaders from the the three major U.S. core banking provi...
Live @ Money 20/20, Oct 2024 - Mr. Open Banking & Friends
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Money 20/20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Eyal is joined by three leading voices from the open banking community whom he knows rather w...
Live @ Money 20/20, Oct 2024 - The Aggregators
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at Money 20/20, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Eyal is joined by the open banking leads from three major US aggregators: John Pitts, Head of...
The American Way
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the United States have open banking? Well, that depends on how it’s defined. If that definition is less about regulation and more about the ado...
The Data Sharing Economy
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Open banking aims to revolutionize data sharing by giving individuals full control over their data - deciding who can access it, for what purpose, and...
Making Better Decisions
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Underlying open banking is an important assumption: That if you give the consumer all the information about what data is held on them and all the cont...
Fast Future Blur
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are living through a period of unprecedented technological change, an era that has been dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Building upon the ...
Embedded Finance
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a world where financial services are no longer separate, daunting entities but seamlessly integrated into the digital experiences you know and...
All That Glitters
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The open banking community has long believed the path to open data starts with open banking. The general idea is that the common standards used to sha...
Checks and Balances
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To date, the United States has taken a staunchly market-driven approach to open banking, and has been doing so for decades. But all that is about to c...
Oh Canada
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The growth of open banking is historically driven by environmental factors. In environments marked by wealth inequality, or a lack of trust in traditi...
The India Stack
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To make open banking work the way it is meant to, you need three major building blocks; data exchange, payments and digital ID. While many countries a...
Open Banking Past & Future
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Europe, widely considered the birthplace of open banking, has been on a journey to digitize their financial system for over 20 years. In this episode,...
Digital Value
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What defines the value of a thing? Is it a question of utility, aesthetics, rarity, emotional connection, or a combination of all these aspects? When ...
Shifting Control
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data fuels our digital lives, helping us make decisions, build relationships, and stay organized. To achieve these goals, we willingly share our perso...
What’s in Your Wallet?
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For most people, wallets are a staple accessory of their everyday lives. Yet today, the analog wallet is disappearing, to be replaced, like so many ot...
The View From the Top
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open banking is often cast as an antidote to the dominance of big banks. Given that its origins stem from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, this per...
Is Open Banking Dead?
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that global banking is experiencing some macroeconomic headwinds. Bank failures and consolidations continue to spread, albeit slowly....
Bringing It All Together
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the extended season finale of Mr. Open Banking, Eyal directly tackles the question of how open banking will change the way we interact with our mon...
Who Do You Trust?
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the open banking movement continues to unfold, many people are asking an obvious but entirely valid question: can we trust open banking? In this ep...
Open Banking in the Middle East
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to open banking globally, there are several factors that have acted as drivers for the movement, like competition, inclusion, stability ...
Made in America
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Open banking definitions often differ from region to region. In the U.S., where open banking is decidedly market-driven, it is associated more with co...
Open Banking for All
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Open banking aims to introduce common, open, shared standards for the secure exchange of financial data. As a result, whether you bank with one bank o...
Out of Africa
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing a disruptive movement like open banking into an already developed environment can be difficult. By contrast, introducing innovation where ...
The Threat of Open Banking
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the doubts of skeptics, the open banking movement is here and it’s evolving quickly. Right now, over 50 regions around the world are in vari...
Value, Risk & Trust
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While most of the financial sector is in the process of implementing open banking, it’s time to look beyond the horizon to see where this evolution ...
How Open Banking Is Done
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to both FinTech and open banking, the UK is leading the charge globally. In this episode, Eyal sits down with one of the key figures beh...
The Road to DeFi Banking
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world of modern cryptocurrencies has evolved beyond just money, with currencies like Ethereum providing programmable open platforms to build the f...
Chasing China
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China has been at the frontier of digital banking innovation since 2014, when their tech giants WeChat and AliPay began driving banks to play catch up...
Open Banking in Europe
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is little doubt that the birthplace of open banking is Europe. As a concept, open banking can be traced to much earlier times, but it was Europe...
Building a Digital Bank
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of digital disruption is no longer revolutionary for most businesses. In fact, digital transformation has become a prerequisite for ensuri...
Open Banking For Good
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Open banking isn’t just about finance, it’s also about improving society. One of open banking’s key facets is its ability to create non-zero sum...
The Great Unbanked
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, approximately two billion people across the globe are unbanked - meaning they have no connection to any banking system of any kind. Banks s...
The Identity Question
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Identity - the simple yet complex concept that makes you, you. But in the digital era, identity encompasses not only the individual attributes you cap...
Exploring Data Rights
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the heart of open banking lies an important and difficult question: do you own your data?As internet giants like Facebook and Google continue to gr...
The Banking Battlefield
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In modern banking, new digital challengers are taking on traditional players by providing a better experience for end-customers. Banks need to either ...
Ways to Pay
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While sharing financial data is part of the equation, open banking only really gets interesting when you add the ability to move money around. In the ...
Opening Canada
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who controls financial data in Canada? How will the ultimate arrival of open banking change that? In our fifth episode of Mr. Open Banking, Eyal comes...
The Big Picture
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What could radical transparency do for our financial ecosystem? How do we create a world that is built on fundamental uncertainty, that adapts to our ...
Following the Market
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What should come first; customer-centric technologies or regulations? In episode two of Mr. Open Banking, Eyal is chatting with Don Cardinal, the Mana...
Going Global
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Mr. Open Banking, Eyal is joined by Gavin Littlejohn, Chairman of FData Global, a not-for-profit that leads negotiations between ba...
What is Open Banking?
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So, what is open banking and how does it work?In our first episode of Mr. Open Banking, Eyal sits down with Chris Michael, the Founder of Ozone API an...
Introducing Mr. Open Banking
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast dedicated to open banking, our podcast strives to be one of the key voices in the global open banking community. The goal of the show is t...