PaymentsNova Guide

Open Banking in Europe: payment architecture first

Open Banking can support permissioned account-to-account payment experiences through banking and payment interfaces. For merchants, the commercial question is how that rail fits into checkout, reconciliation, settlement and redundancy.

Account-to-account flows

Open Banking payment flows can reduce dependence on cards for appropriate use cases, but implementation and availability vary by market, provider and merchant profile.

Operational considerations

Evaluate user experience, bank coverage, reconciliation, refund handling, settlement timing, provider support and fallback methods—not only transaction pricing.

Provider and compliance fit

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