How Europe’s push for Open Banking is forcing banking apps to improve their UX - freeCodeCamp
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/sick-of-your-banks-lame-app-open-banking-promises-more-9770cad2448c
Short 5 minute article on the open banking movement, some might find interesting. Plus a couple of mentions of 
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very interesting read. one alarming thing is “give amazon access to your bank account” 
im sure this will be done in a secure way, but its still an alarming concept!!
Yes, thanks for the article. I hadn’t realised that 2FA was going to be required for all online transactions. On one hand, this will be a huge pain with the legacy bank systems at the moment. On the other hand, it will be such a problem, that hopefully they will come up with something less burdensome than the stupid card readers now required for online banking. Like, I don’t know, a tiny supercomputer with a tappable screen for those few people that happen to carry one around anyway. 
Do we actually know who will be ready for open banking in January 2018 and to what extent?
(yes I know the answer is suppose to be all of them but…)