What is PSD2? PSD2 is a European regulation for electronic payment services. It seeks to make payments more secure in Europe, boost innovation, and help banking services adapt to new technologies. PSD2 is evidence of the increasing importance Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are acquiring in
Read morePSD2: Background and progress PSD2 and Open Banking are the two concepts being heavily discussed by market participants, experts and all the interested parties since first offered in 2013. We have also previously spoken on the subject. But the more time passes the more interesting it is to watch
Read moreGDPR: Protecting consumer data On 25th may 2018, the new GDPR laws established by EU commissioner pertaining to EU economic area and European Union citizens and residents came to life. The new rules announced two years prior, promised steep penalties starting at $10million or 2% of annual
Read moreThough in Europe there are more than 6000 credit institutions, banks, financial companies, and more, top payment consultancy INNOPAY has listed only 32 banks who work with Open APIs. SDK.finance's core banking technology team headed by our CTO, Pavlo Sidelov decided to perform our own analysis of
Read moreSince 2015, we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and communications with banks from different European countries such as the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Baltic states, and more. In 2016, our hypothesis was that we would jump onto the bandwagon of PSD2
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