Open banking is a banking practice that provides third-party financial service providers open access to consumer banking, transaction, and other financial data from banks and non-bank financial institutions through the use of application programming interfaces (APIs). You are in control and provide us with the access through the use of Plaid. Open banking is designed to be safe and secure, it’s regulated by the FCA and uses bank-level security. With open banking and it’s data, customers are able to receive new offers and products more suited to their financial position right now. Because of this, there are currently over 4.5 million regular open banking users globally.