A combination of regulatory pressure and market forces is driving the adoption of open banking globally, with the aim to enhance customer experience and reinvent product and business models. Banks are embracing open banking to take a partnership-driven, collaborative approach that provides an ecosystem of lifestyle services to their customers and helps them stay relevant. However, this shift to open banking is beset with challenges because of legacy IT systems and infrastructure, which have lower agility, flexibility, and scalability.
To enable these financial firms, to realize the full potential of open banking, IT service providers are investing in capabilities for such as advisory services, API management, cloud and modern engineering, industry/academia collaboration, and employee certifications on third-party open banking platforms.
In this research, we studied study the vision & capability and the market impact generated by 24 leading open banking IT service providers and position them on Everest Group’s proprietary PEAK Matrix® to identify the Leaders, Major Contenders, Aspirants, and Star Performers. The assessment is based on Everest Group’s RFI process and interactions with leading open banking IT service providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing tracking of the open banking IT services market.
This report analyzes open banking IT services in the global BFS sector and includes: