Pioneering open banking concepts and technologies since 2010
Our team has been assisting the financial service sector since Open Banking first began, contributing our expertise to drive legislation and adoption in Europe and beyond and playing an active role in educating the wider market about the Open API opportunity.
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2010
TESOBE CEO Simon Redfern pushes for REST APIs in banking to support innovation and transparency at the ITEA2 and PechaKucha event in Berlin. A year later (2011) the first Open Bank Project (OBP) source code under open source licence is published.
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2013
OBP is incubated at the Fintech Innovation Lab & Open Data Institute (ODI) in London and launches the first fintech hackathon: Hack (Make!) the Bank. The same year, the ODI and Fingleton Associates consult TESOBE for the Open Data & Data Sharing whitepaper commissioned by HM Treasury.
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2014
Simon Redfern becomes a key contributor to the Open Banking Working Group - the world’s first body tasked with implementing Open Banking standards.
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2018
The Australian Payments Council holds the country’s first cross-industry hackathon , trusting TESOBE to organise the event and provide an industry sandbox populated with a mixture of real and synthetic data.
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2023
The TESOBE team continues advising regulators and banks across the globe, including in Mexico, Vietnam, Peru and Jordan.
