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FIDA: From Mortgages to Pensions - Everything Opens Up

April 23, 2025 • Efi Pylarinou

Join us for an in-depth conversation with Rik Coeckelbergs, founder of the Banking scene , as we explore FIDA (Financial Data Access) - Europe's groundbreaking new regulation that aims to revolutionize open finance beyond PSD2.

In this episode, we discuss:
- How FIDA differs from PSD2 and why it might succeed where PSD2 faced challenges
- The impact on mortgages, insurance, pensions, and other financial products
- Why incentives and monetization are crucial for API adoption
- The role of European Digital Identity Wallet in building trust
- How AI and unstructured data could transform financial services-
The future of open finance and customer data ownership

PLUS: Rik shares insights from his new book "The New Ethos in Banking: Embracing Values and Ethics for Meaningful Transformation" and his vision for banking in 2040.📚

Rik's book is our next Fintech Book Club selection - join us for the discussion in July
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Rik Coeckelbergs https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikcoeckelbergs/ is the Founder and Managing Director of The Banking Scene, a network organisation for bankers and is passionate about banking and conceptualising how to turn the industry into a better self. Over the years, the community grew to 5 inspirational events in Luxembourg, Amsterdam and Brussels, the biggest with +400 attendees.

Before his entrepreneurial journey, Rik worked for +10 years in the financial services industry in various roles, both as an external consultant and in internal roles in business, strategy and marketing. In 2009, he created a LinkedIn community called “Innovation In Payments”, which today is LinkedIn’s largest payments group worldwide with +125k members.

Rik Coeckelbergs is a regular advisor, speaker and blogger on thebankingscene.com and a guest writer for third-party websites. Occasionally, Rik contributes to publications, like in 2019 in “Regtech Blackbook – The Sequel” and in 2021 in Chris Skinner’s most recent bestselling book “Digital for Good”.