Tag Archives: Open Banking

Keep finance “open” – an open letter to the CMA.

Posted on June 8, 2021 by henry tapper
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“If you want a do-it-all dashboard – you’ll have to wait a decade”.

Posted on March 5, 2020 by henry tapper

Speaking at an AgeWage/FDATA event last night, Romi Savova told a packed house that the MAPS dashboard could do little more than find people’s pensions with the detailed information we need to take decisions on our pots delivered off-dashboard via … Continue reading →

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When will pensions move out of the “paper age”?

Posted on December 19, 2019 by henry tapper

Today the Pensions Bill will sit within the Queen’s speech and within the Pensions Bill will be proposed legislation to make it mandatory for pension schemes of all DC persuasions , to provide digital data to a pension dashboard. The … Continue reading →

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Open finance opens doors (to pension dashboards)

Posted on December 18, 2019 by henry tapper

Pension Dashboards got a much needed shot in the arm from the FCA yesterday , with the publication of a “Call for input” on Open Finance from the FCA yesterday. The document sets out a route-map to better financial services … Continue reading →

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Dashboard? – we’re dash-less and bored!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by henry tapper

  The title was my summation of a discussion of dashboard progress over the past four years. We’d been talking about what the general public want and had landed on precisely the model illustrated at the top of the blog. … Continue reading →

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Railways and dashboards have a lot in common!

Posted on December 23, 2018 by henry tapper

  Yesterday I wrote about the importance of delivering a dashboard competitively. To sum my argument up, I think that those prepared to supply the technology needed to find people’s pensions should not compete for the work through a Government … Continue reading →

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The fight for proper dashboards is just beginning.

Posted on December 10, 2018 by henry tapper

  The collective intake of breath that greeted the eventual publication of the Government’s feasibility study and consultation paper was palpable. Now – a week on – perhaps we can stop congratulating each other and get on with delivering a … Continue reading →

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Pension Dashboards – time to respond!

Posted on December 9, 2018 by henry tapper

At a recent PPI seminar, Laurie Edmans reminded us that he had been responsible for helping Government nearly deliver combined pension forecasts in 2004 – nearly 15 years ago. I wrote to Laurie thanking him for chairing an excellent event … Continue reading →

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Why pensions must bank on change! We need Open Pensions not a data monopoly.

Posted on November 14, 2018 by henry tapper

Bounding on stage like he’d just won the 3.15 at Hexham, Guy Opperman exclaimed The occasion – a Prospect discussion called “Banking on Change; the discussion “what open banking could mean for you”. On an evening where BREXIT was whistling … Continue reading →

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I want to choose my dashboard please!

Posted on September 5, 2018 by henry tapper

Thankfully the Government has seen sense, it is not going to provide a one size fits all Volkswagon dashboard, it’s going to offer us a motor-show of choice! The Government is not going to build or maintain a pension dashboard. … Continue reading →

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