Beyond Open Banking - Live @ Fintech Nerdcon, 2025

Recorded live at the inaugural edition of Fintech Nerdcon in Miami, Florida, Eyal is joined by Alex Johnson, the Founder of Fintech Takes, one of the most widely-read publications in the fintech industry. The United States' first real attempt at regulating open banking, known as Section 1033, has been anything but smooth; challenged on day one, declared unlawful, and stuck in court-ordered limbo. At the center of that chaos sits a deeper fight over who controls personal financial data and who gets to profit from it. Eyal and Alex dig into what this turbulence reveals, not just about America's uniquely chaotic path to open banking, but about the questions every market must eventually face around standards, cost recovery and trust, questions which only grow more urgent as agentic AI enters the picture. Ultimately, this leads to the biggest question of all, one that reaches far beyond open banking: How do we create a world where we have the right to control our own data?

 Specifically they discuss:

• Regulatory chaos in the U.S.
• Charging fees for data access
• The role of shared standards
• Agentic AI and open banking 
• The future of data rights