{"id":1527,"date":"2023-10-13T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/fintech\/apple-launches-connected-cards-using-open-banking-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:18:24","slug":"apple-launches-connected-cards-using-open-banking-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Apple Launches \u2018Connected Cards\u2019 Using Open Banking In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The upcoming Apple
\n AAPL
\n <\/fbs-ticker> iOS 17.1 developer beta shows the first services<\/strong> for the new iPhone Wallet app powered by the U.K.\u2019s Open Banking API. The Wallet app will now be able to show Brits their account balance (including credit cards) from supported banks (including my principal bank, Barclays) as well as their transaction history. The balances will also be shown inline when buying something with Apple Pay, helping users be more financially aware about whether they can responsibly afford the purchase. I liked 9to5.mac\u2019s comment that “International Apple users are used to bemoaning U.S.-only features\u2026 However, Apple is launching this feature exclusively in the U.K. due to the existence of an interoperable open banking standard in the country”. They go on to say that “The path to getting a feature like this in other regions, like the U.S., is much less clear\u201d, but I\u2019m sure I agree with that. I think the path is very clear: U.S. regulators need to mandate open banking.<\/p>\n

Tap-To-Pay, Here-To-Stay<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To be honest, I had expected the platforms (especially Google
\n GOOG
\n <\/fbs-ticker> and Apple) to move into open banking much sooner, because of the importance of bank data in all kinds of value-added service, so I thought it was rather exciting last year when Apple acquired a UK open banking company<\/strong>, Credit Kudos. I wrote at the time that the company\u2019s move into open banking was significant and I noted that in addition to holding an Account Information Service Provider (AISP) license, Credit Kudos were an FCA-regulated credit reference agency, meaning they had access to both open banking data and credit data from banks. As an AISP they can access individual or SME bank account data (with the customer\u2019s consent, of course) and then feed this data into their tools such as their data classification engine (Lotus), insights engine (Atlas), proprietary risk models, decision engine (Assembly), and other income and identity verification tools to improve decisions around credit. There are some great services there, and that\u2019s even before you factor in what Apple\u2019s artificial intelligence wizards might want to do with such data in the future.<\/p>\n

Overall, roughly three in four of 130 million iPhone users have activated Apple Pay, with nearly 56 million U.S. consumers making an in-store payment using Apple Pay in April 2023, accounting for nearly half of iOS users. And in 2021, there were an estimated 25 million Google Pay users, which is forecast to grow by another 10 million users by 2025. Visa
\n V
\n <\/fbs-ticker> recently reported that 1 in 3 Americans use tap-to-pay for purchases, seven times the use from just three years ago. Mastercard
\n MA
\n <\/fbs-ticker> reported that contactless payments globally account for almost two-thirds of all in-person transactions.<\/p>\n

Not everyone, it has to be said, is happy with Apple\u2019s Wallet. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published their report<\/strong> into \u201ctap to pay\u201d, which finds that financial services providers can offer applications to facilitate POS payments but “cannot rely on NFC technology on mobile devices using Apple\u2019s iOS operating system\u201d. Similarly the European Union\u2019s competition watchdog last year accused Apple of restricting rivals’ access to its tap-and-go technology, Near-Field Communication (NFC), used for mobile wallets, making it difficult for them to develop rival services on Apple devices.<\/p>\n

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What they mean is that Apple blocks access to EMV applications, not that it blocks access to all NFC applications or other payment applications: you can use other payment services such as Swish or MobilePay or Payconiq but that is via QR codes. The CFPB and the EU feel that Apple\u2019s rules means that competition is limited and that widely used payment apps such as PayPal
\n PYPL
\n <\/fbs-ticker>, Venmo, and Cash App are not available via convenient contactless connectivity and that consumers must use Apple\u2019s proprietary payment service, Apple Pay.<\/p>\n

Banks and others are upset about this because they see it as Apple sitting between them and their customers. Last week Apple was ordered to face a private antitrust lawsuit by payment card issuers accusing the company of thwarting competition<\/strong> for its Apple Pay mobile wallet. The proposed class action is led by credit unions who say that Apple \u201ccoerces” people who use its devices into using its own wallet for contactless transactions forcing them to pay at least $1 billion of excess fees.<\/p>\n

Never mind the issue of transactions fees though. As we all know, one of the most valuable assets in today’s economy is data. While there may be open banking payment transactions downstream (using the Apple Wallet as a front end to FedNow, for example), the fact is that the data Apple can obtain from bank accounts is worth vastly more than any transaction fees it might extract. Consumers are, by and large, happy using their digital wallets for payments. But the fact is that integration with open banking changes the relationship and moves the digital wallet closer to the epicentre of financial life. Tom Noyes wrote earlier this year<\/strong> about the Apple and Google wallets becoming a centre of trust and a super consumer platform empowering consumer choice and, crucially in my opinion, protecting consumer data.<\/p>\n

As to when this feature \u2014 known as \u201cConnected Cards\u201d \u2014 will be available to American consumers, there is a clue in the fine print in the Wallet app set up, which says that “If you are in the United States, Connected Cards is provided by Apple Processing LLC\u201d. It is unclear when Connected Cards will actually launch in the U.S., or which banks will participate. In the U.K., the feature sits on regulatory foundations that currently do not exist in the U.S.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s The Identity, Stupid<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Anil John, Technical Director of Silicon Valley Innovation Program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, commented on that CFPB report calling it \u201crecommended reading\u201d and saying that if you substitute “payments” with “identity” in much of the report, “it gives you a preview and the playbook<\/strong>\u201d. That is, wallets will be used by the techfins to make themselves gatekeepers when it comes to identity related transactions that take place on mobile devices (ie, pretty much all identity-related transactions). He is of course correct and, as has been obvious for years, when tap-to-pay becomes a subset of a more generalised tap-to-prove infrastructure, those gatekeepers will have significant power.<\/p>\n

Back in 2014, in my tongue-in-cheek reminiscences of Money20\/20<\/strong> in Las Vegas that year, I made the same point about Apple, saying through the voice of an alter ego “I don\u2019t fall for your \u2018easy payment\u2019 waffle. I know it\u2019s just a trojan horse for your wallet play: loyalty, coupons and \u2014 if you have your dastardly way \u2014 identity\u201d. Apple are smart, so I\u2019m sure they figured this out long before I did, but it\u2019s all about identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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