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Caspian One has an established team of Open API experts readily available across the globe to support your Open Banking requirements


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Full-service offering

 

The Caspian One team and our professional partners share a diverse collection of competencies, providing a full-service offering. This includes business and technical advisory skills, technical architects, API specialists… to operational and technical delivery teams, training and ongoing support.

 

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We are elite members of the Open Banking Standards Approval forum and recognised Open Banking strategic thinkers - supporting the path of Banks and ASPSPs, through compliance to value proposition.

In addition, we offer true consultative services, not just a strategy paper to follow. Our team will action the strategy - providing the talent, processes, technology and training to make this a reality.

 
  • Strategic thinking and leadership of technical enablers for Open Banking, such as Identity, Access Management, API, Service Mesh and Microservices

  • API strategy and integration, release management (Sandbox & Production), Directory management and all aspects of the project lifecycle

  • Members of OBIE and FDX

We are elite members of the Open Banking Standards Approval forum, the OBIE, the FDX and recognised Open Banking strategic thinkers; supporting the path of Banks and ASPSPs, through compliance to value proposition. In addition, we offer true consultative services that action the strategy - providing resources, processes, technology and training to make this a reality.

For example, the leadership of technical enablers for Open Banking, such as Identity, Access Management, API, Service Mesh and Microservices. Alternatively, API strategy and integration, release management (Sandbox & Production), Directory management and all aspects of the project lifecycle.

We have been at the frontline of Open Banking, internationally, since 2017 - providing support to:

  • The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE - the UK’s governing body)

  • The CMA9 Collective and ASPSPs with Open Data standards and iterations of the OBIE standards

  • A leading UK high-street Bank, supporting their entire Open Banking implementation

  • The entire OBIE ecosystem, directly responsible for relationship management between the CMA9, ASPSP, TPPs and TSPs (Revolut, Starling, JP Morgan Chase, Plaid Financial, AMEX, PayPal, C Hoare & Co, Oracle, Samsung, etc.)

  • Active participants in all Open Banking working groups and standards

  • Counsel to OBIE for new legislative proposals, prior to engaging with the CMA9 to validate time, effort and viability. Examples include - enhancing AISP consent management, recurring variable payments (RVP) and refund processing

 

Core services breakdown


STRATEGY

Design and implementation of a strategic architectural environment, for the future of Open Finance.

I.e. you want to open up your business to bring in new suppliers and TPPs, you want to win new customers – we can help you with that, based on what we know of the market, how the interoperability works between firms and so-on.

ADVISORY

Support with the firm’s API strategy -governance, data control, security & training.

Our advisory service helps from day one, taking you on an Open Banking journey benefiting from our experience – and the capabilities of our partners. We’ve been there, done that and got the t-shirt. Additionally, our advisory services are ongoing... supporting you even once strategy has been established.

Core services


OPERATIONAL

Manage the external partner’s ecosystem - working groups, Confluence, support desk.

When you open your organisation to third parties you don’t just want to hand them a document and say, “here you go, help yourself – you'll be fine”. It’s vital to provide the management support necessary, to run working groups, talk with key people and teams, informing those involved when an API is going to be deprecated or you’re going to move to an inversion. We can help with this operational management, drawing on our vast experience and partner network.

ECOSYSTEM

Building awareness of clients’ APIs.

What we’ve witnessed from some organisations, which is a mistake, is that they’ll say “Okay, we know what the standards are, we’ve downloaded the documents and we have an API which fits those standards – so I’ll put it on my website and people will just come”. They won’t. There is a need to build awareness in this new ecosystem, so the likes of XERO, QuickBooks or even other banks are aware your new API exists. We can run this whole service, contacting people to say “We have this new API if you need any help we’re here – can I speak to your development team and we’ll help them...” etc.

Core services


CONTROL

Supporting the governance and control of internal/external service offerings.

A leading retail bank says to its tech team, “let’s pursue Open APIs”. A few months later and they have 14,000 of them - utter chaos. Now they have a project to consolidate the APIs, which is much harder to act than if, to begin with, they’d included controls and governance. Caspian One and our OB partners offer services that deliver complete API governance over both internal and external offerings.

EVENT-DRIVEN BANKING

Guaranteeing the delivery of phenomenally fast payments.

We have a strategic partnership with advanced event broker, Solace. Together, we bring event-driven Open Banking to our customers, which will become essential as demand for complex implementations increases. Solace take on far greater volumes of information and event messaging, so even if there's a fundamental break in the system - they can guarantee message delivery.

Core services


INTEGRATION PARTNERS

Extend our services to connect with your customers efficiently.

Then, once you’ve opened the front door and allowed people to come in and play in your sandbox and get used to your organisation, you then have the possibility of bringing on other services. We’ve worked with many of these ‘other’ services so we know how to work with them, we know what the costs will be, what the pitfalls will be and how to get the best result. So, we’re integration partners to; bolting in an FX supply, adding credit cards, cheaper loans – other services that other people would bring, we are experts for that.

COGNITIVE FORECASTING

Utilising machine learning, AI and behavioural science.

Within our network, we have highly educated behavioural scientists who've taken their knowledge into the technological space; applying their understanding of cognitive principles to digital interactions. Partners can utilise OB transactional data where permission is given, alongside online actions (pages viewed, buttons clicked, reactions to presentations etc.) and ML algorithms, to accurately predict, forecast and measure behavioural patterns. This is a service we overlay and embed within our offering.

Pillars of success


SCOPE & BUSINESS READINESS

  • Defining the banks enterprise-wide API strategy requirements - scoping and building

  • Definition of ongoing bank-wide data thinking, building requirements, scope and build

  • Open API bank communications

  • Divisional compliance vs innovative thinking

  • Business readiness definition

  • Target operating model definition

SYSTEMS DELIVERY

  • Build and integration of bank API platform(s) and cross divisional use-case integrations

  • Provision of live proving and all testing tools

  • Build of full external (TPP) capability, for testing in all environments - or to be used for innovation/partnerships

  • ASPSP MI dev and scheme reporting build including NCA reports

  • Bank external data exposure, build requirements and creation

SERVICE DELIVERY

  • Full project lifecycle management of delivery

  • Implementation management

  • Reporting and project governance

  • Open Banking relationship management

  • Integration, existing architecture (Cloud/on-premise)

  • Testing strategy and planning

  • Testing execution (UAT, NFT, Performance)

  • Route-to-live delivery

  • Test tool provision

SERVICE SUPPORT

All ‘run the bank’ activities, including:

  • API strategy and API integration management

  • Incident management, defect management/UAT testing

  • Release management for all API based code

  • Live monitoring and alerting

  • Full rollout of sandbox and production services

  • Open Banking business, technical contact and relationship management

  • OB technical directory management

  • Training bank staff across the organisation

  • Customer support and service provision

 

Corporate environment

Open Banking services for the Corporate environment are transforming how consumers and businesses share their financial data securely, and in turn, is enabling the development of innovative new financial services and products.

A Wealth Manager may, for example, have a client with £300 million in the bank. If that client wished to transfer any of that money, now it's likely to require phone calls or email communication. Whereas with Open Banking that client could quickly and simply view their entire portfolio, compare it to others for the best rates - and move it with ease.

 

Open Banking APIs provide the ability to display Corporate-level dashboards, including both internal and external client balance positions of their portfolios. We would also develop a strategic MI architecture platform to ensure future API metrics can support the organisation with analytics and decision making.

Through Open Banking we are able to provide the ability to drill down from a Corporate-level dashboard to individual, client-level dashboards, which can be exposed to clients securely - listing real-time balance positions and settled payments, helping to significantly improve the client's risk profile status and exposure across financial institutions.

 

Caspian One Open Banking modules have been designed for deployment in Corporate environments. All ASPSP/TPP modules are out-of-the-box and are ready to be integrated with banking and accounting platforms.

Even where clients may have several internal and external business accounts, Open Banking provides the opportunity to aggregate account information from across all financial institutions.

 

We provide everything needed to build a successful Open Banking business - including Directory, ASPSP, TPP, AISP, PISP, CoP and ‘Open Banking in a Box’.

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