This document provides an overview of Christian Løverås and his work leading Nordic Finance Innovation and Open Banking initiatives at DNB bank. It discusses the opportunities and challenges of PSD2 regulations, and how DNB is setting up programs and partnerships to take advantage of open banking through their new business unit and developer portal while also addressing threats from new fintech competitors.
2. ▪ Christian Løverås (1972)
▪ Computer science at the University of Oslo
▪ 20+ years of digital transformation
▪ 10 years developing software for the media industry
▪ Co-founded 4-5 companies, 3 (successful) exits
▪ 2 years in DNB
▪ Innovation
▪ Partnerships
▪ Startups
▪ Accelerator
▪ Open Banking
Hello!
3. It’s not about everybody making banks
It’s about making banking available outside of the banks
5. ▪ Founded in 1822
▪ ~10,000 employees
▪ Offices in 16 countries
▪ Around 90 legal entities
▪ 34 % retail market share
▪ 34 % owned by the Norwegian government
▪ The world’s 313th largest bank
DNB
10. PSD2: It’s Not For The Banks
Acme Open Banking
Acme
Acme
11. Legislation Will Take Time
RTS SCA-hearing and handling
RTS SCA in effect in
the EU and Norway
Both PSD2 and RTS in
effect in the EU and
Norway
PSD2 in effect
in Norway and
the EU
13.01:
PSD2 in
effect in EU
Legal vacuum in the EU
2016
Hearing
“finansavtalelov”
Hearings and changes to
Norwegian law
Process in
the EU
Process in
Norway
Implications
Guidance for this period will be provided
2017 2018 2019
PSD2 decided in EU, with 24 months to effectuate
Partly ready - some
technical details not
ready
Legal vacuum
1 in Norway
Legal vacuum 2 in Norway
RTS SCA decided, with 18 months to
effectuate
PSD2 in effect in national legislation in the EU member countries
PSD2 in effect in national legislation in Norway
New RTS
SCA hearing
Thanks, PWC!
Rune Strømsnes and Lars Erik Fjørtoft
12. • If you do less, you will get in trouble with the EU
• PSD2 is just a small start of Open Banking
• A great opportunity for DNB
• … aaand a threat
• But mostly an opportunity
• DNB is taking this very seriously
PSD2: The Bare Minimum
15. ▪ DNB is “Bank A-Å” (11.5 % better than A-Z)
▪ DNB will offer more than A-B as APIs
▪ A complete development platform for DNB’s services
▪ Probably not the same that we have today
▪ Also services from others
▪ PSD2 TPPs: A new type of customer
▪ Requires a different type of support
▪ Continuous Improvement, Continuous Deployment
▪ Software (API) lifecycle management
▪ Banks are becoming distributors of financial services through software
DNB Open Banking
29. • New competitors, new tech, demanding customers
• Scale through partnerships
• Contribute to an eco-system
• Build a platform
• We want to work together with the people with the best ideas
DNB Will Not Have All The Good Ideas
30. Death by a Thousand Fintechs
HSBC Wells Fargo
🔪
33. ▪ Borderless credit card
▪ Spend in 28 local currencies
▪ Foreign accounts are difficult
▪ Proof of address, etc
▪ Open an account in minutes
▪ Ideal when living or working across
countries
Transferwise MasterCard
34. ▪ Account aggregation
▪ 200 European financial institutions
▪ Payment initiation
▪ PFM
▪ Tink
▪ Grip (ABN Amro)
▪ Product recommendations
▪ Including on-boarding (KYC/AML)
▪ Move your mortgage in 5 minutes
Tink
35. ▪ Integrate with bank infrastructure at
9,600 financial institutions
▪ Authentication (no BankID in the US)
▪ Validate income (no Skatteetaten API)
▪ Customers:
Plaid
37. ▪ Founded in 2005
▪ 60 M customers
▪ 18 markets
▪ 70 k merchants
▪ 476 M € purchased
▪ SKU-level details
▪ Banking license
▪ “One of Europe’s largest banks”
Klarna
38. ▪ It may be a good strategy
▪ But!
▪ Initiatives must be started, because there is no time to catch up later
What To Do? Wait and see?
56. ▪ Visiting a DNB branch has always been free
▪ (If you can find one: We have closed 129 branches the last 3 years, only 59 left)
▪ The same services are still profitable when offered through APIs
▪ Loans, insurance, etc
Free Entrance
57. Typical API Business Models
APIs
Free
Developer
pays
Developer
gets paid
Indirect
58. APIs
Free
Developer
pays
Developer
gets paid
Indirect
Pay as you
go
Tiered Freemium Unit-based
Transaction
based
Revenue
share
Affiliate
Sign-up
referral
CPC CPA
One timer Recurring
Affiliate
Consumer
facing
Public web
Mobile/
Device
Content
acquisition
Included Upsell
Content
syndication
SOA+ Web/Mobile
SaaS
Internal
facing
Hanna Trygve Martin
76. DNB is so complex that only customers see the whole picture
78. ▪ Monitor “extreme weather” alerts
▪ Alert local handyperson
▪ Use IoT sensors to monitor frost
▪ Turn on heat when needed
▪ More IoT: Fire, water, movements, ..
▪ Automatically lock the “smart lock” when away
▪ Automate (AirBnB) rental
▪ Advertise house for when owner is away
▪ Notify local housekeeping person
▪ Something else?
▪ How can DNB help make it easier for the owner?
APIs for Holiday Homes
79. 79
▪ Report accident: Police and insurance company
▪ A facade for third party APIs?
▪ Order a taxi to the current location
▪ Find the nearest car towing service
▪ GET /insurance/car/towingservice/{latitude}/{longditude}
▪ Something else?
▪ How can DNB make it easier to develop new services?
APIs for Car Insurance
82. ▪ DNB’s internal services have been fully digitised
▪ Risk scoring, etc
▪ We also use APIs from Altinn and Kartverket
▪ Salary
▪ Tax
▪ Property information
▪ Two years work, lots of people
▪ No humans involved in the process
▪ Banks in other countries don’t believe us
▪ Will DNB offer (parts of) this process to others?
▪ “Risk scoring as a service”?
▪ “Mortgage as a service”?
Fully Automated Mortgage Process
Many similar challenges in media and finance:
New technology
Demanding customers (used to world-class digital services)
New competition
Open Banking: What is it all about?
First: A quick presentation of DNB
DNB IR: https://www.ir.dnb.no/
DNB rank: https://www.forbes.com/companies/dnb/
Norges Bank statistics: https://static.norges-bank.no/contentassets/b633cbc4154540abab705d622eefe52f/nb_memo_2_2017.pdf?v=05/16/2017163134&ft=.pdf
96 % of Norwegians are on the internet
91 % use online banking services
6 % of payments are with cash
EU’s fragemented payment systems are very expensive.
The estimated savings from PSD2 is 130 Billion Euro - per year
Number: Antonio Tajani, member and president of the EU Parliament
"Currently each Member State has its own rules on payments, and the annual cost of making payments through these fragmented systems is as much as 2-3% of GDP. Payment service providers are effectively blocked from competing and offering their services throughout the EU. Removal of these barriers could save the EU economy €28 billion per year overall.” https://worldline.com/en/home/blog/2017/july/psd2-what-behind.html
PSD2 goals
This is from a bank’s developer portal
It’s a nice internal pep-talk, but not the most important topics for people outside of the bank
Nobody knows when PSD2 will take effect in Norway
“Sometime in 2019, or maybe 2020” is a good estimate
If you just do the PSD2 minimum compliance: Good luck.
Opportunity: Because DNB can now create services for non-DNB customers, and together with others
Threat: DNB will not always have the best service. We will lose market share, but in a bigger market
DNB has several business units
The largest are: PM, BM, LCI, Markets
We now have a new one, which we have decided to call .. New Business
We will soon be 70 people
Data: Data Architecture, commercialising data, data governance, master data management
Payments: Strategic across DNB, develop infrastructure, biz dev, make transaction data available
Open Banking: APIs, development, product ownership, biz dev
Partnerships and New Ideas: Strategic partnerships, Accelerator, CVC
New Tech Lab: Explore new technology that may be useful for DNB
The largest banks in Norway
The largest banks in Europe
Tough competition, more with PSD2
GAFA!
Maybe these are DNB’s real competitors?
Click “Like” on 150 things, and Facebook knows more about you than your partner
World-class customer experiences
Do you switch from Google or Amazon to something else?
Smaller companies are also interesting.
Basic services done very well.
Minimum Lovable Product.
Waiting lists.
(Who has one of these cards, or both?)
Curve: Virtual card, representing other cards. Choose the current card in the app.
Revolut: Prepaid MasterCard. Just launched on-demand travel insurance based on phones location.
Both have nice apps, with real-time transactions.
Curve integrates with Xero to do your expenses automatically.
Revolut travel insurance, just when you need it.
An examnple from another industry: Transportation.
NYC taxi medallion: Almost like gold.
You could take out a mortgage on it
Until!
https://nycitycab.com/Business/TaxiMedallionList.aspx: 250,000
Photo: http://nordic.businessinsider.com/nyc-yellow-cab-medallion-prices-falling-further-2016-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.ft.com/content/28d4e100-2a6d-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c
“Yu’e Bao, which means “leftover treasures” because it was originally promoted as a way to invest money left over from online payments, now has more than 260 million users. The vast majority of Yu’e Bao users are under the age of 30.” http://supchina.com/2017/04/28/alibabas-yue-bao-becomes-worlds-largest-money-market-fund-china-business-technology-news-april-28-2017/
http://www.ibtimes.com/alibabas-online-money-market-fund-yue-bao-8-things-you-need-know-1560601
Loans: $1,000-750,000 for up to 12 months
Pre-qualified, based on platform data
Amazon Capital Services: Amazon Lending
3 B USD since 2011
For every bank’s service, there is a competitor with laser focus on just that
Here’s one example
Does anyone remember the leaked internal memo from Santander?
April last year.
Revealed some very nice margins.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/08/leaked-santander-international-money-transfers-transferwise
One “fintech”, 10 % of group revenue at risk.
585 million €
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/08/leaked-santander-international-money-transfers-transferwise
Now Transferwise is launching borderless credit card
Only 1000 cards so far
How much revenue is a stake?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/transferwise-card/
20 M SEK mortgages moved with app: Unable to verify!
Plaid is another aggregator
Quovo is another
What will this mean for banks?
Banks: “Some company offering delayed payment online? Not a threat.”
Claims to be one of Europe’s largest banks (number of customers?)
So what does DNB do?
Several things.
Digital Challenge is one.
Digital Challenge: A weekend of hard work!
200 students in 5 cities (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, London
Mostly for recruiting, but many good ideas too
NXT Accelerator, with StartupLab
3 months program, 1,3 MNOK funding
DNB only contributes expertise and time. No money, no obligations in any way.
2017: An experiment
109 applicants, 5 companies selected.
Goal: 1 win-win result, and we got 4 out of 5
2018: We know it works, so now we are investing more into it
Deadline yesterday (Jan 31)
DNB’s Facebook Messenger chatbot is powered by Convertelligence, on of the accelerator startups.
Will try a video.
DNB’s Facebook Messenger chatbot is powered by Convertelligence, on of the accelerator startups.
FundingPartner is one of the companies: Equity crowdfunding.
Hoping to get their license this month.
DNB Venture: 250 MNOK to invest in startups.
https://shifter.no/dnb-venture-investere-250-millioner-startups-selskapene-pa-utkikk/
To make it possible to speed up innovation, experiments and partnerships, DNB is moving to the cloud.
DNB has code in production that was written in the 80’s.
And we have many old computers.
Here are two of them.
Left: VISA cards
Right: MasterCards
Some of our old computers are small and cute.
Others are larger, and stranger.
We are still using our old computers, but we are also building a whole new infrastructure in on someone else’s computer: Amazon Web Services.
There are a lot of AWS products available
The typical benefits of:
Flexibility
Pay for what you use
Scaling
Security
Integrations
Updates
New functionality
Build a new platform on AWS
Hide the internal complexity.
Make services available through APIs
DNB’s first cloud-based service was Vipps.
Using Microsoft Azure, not AWS.
Vipps is now a separate company, and have moved out of the DNB buildings
Running a branch is not free, neither is running a development platform.
You don’t have to charge for the API itself.
Picture: https://www.bergensentrum.no/bilder/121119-DNB-T2-1ETG-007-1024x576.jpg
Some companies make most of revenue through APIs:
- Salesforce: 50 %
eBay: 60 %
Expedia: 90 %
https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-strategic-value-of-apis
Thanks to Hanna, Trygve and Martin for this overview
CPC: Cost per Click
CPA: Cost per Action
From: Creating products and solutions inside DNB
To: Inviting to conversations and collaborations with others
Outside-in: What do you need?
DNB want to contribute to, and be part of, an eco-system
We realise that not everybody wants to build a new bank
From: Creating products and solutions inside DNB
To: Inviting to conversations and collaborations with others
Outside-in: What do you need?
DNB want to contribute to, and be part of, an eco-system
We realise that not everybody wants to build a new bank
To work together with others, DNB is launching a developer portal
Finally
We have been working on this for a while
We had a hackathon to test APIs in September
We have a developer event next week to test the developer portal - and updated APIs
Information about the Account API
John Does’s profile page, with his two apps
The details of an app
Shows the client id and the connected APIs
And in an unfinished presentation
Real APIs, but design not quite ready
GET /accounts/
Get the accounts for the current customer.
Similar to PSD2
Focus: Developer friendly
The developer platform makes it possible to create new services.
Some by DNB, some by others.
It’s natural that relevant non-DNB functionality is offered on the DNB platform
An example from Lufthansa: Find the nearest airport:
https://developer.lufthansa.com/docs/read/api_details/reference_data/Nearest_Airport
Outside-in!
Design Thinking
Empathy
Norway has one of the world’s best digital infrastructure
Here: Tax API for annual income
Tax API for annual tax
DNB used the public service APIs to create the world’s first fully digital mortgage process
When you want to buy a house, you only have to deal with a robot.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ex Machina
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