Building Societies, trust and Open Banking adoption

Earlier this year, we surveyed 2000 people on their openness to a series of 21 use cases - enabled by Open Banking - that look likely to emerge over the coming months.

Open Banking, the recovery, saving and investing

As we start to acclimatise to life under lockdown, institutions are beginning to articulate the role they can play in the recovery. In particular, savings and investment providers stand to g...

Open Finance, financial inclusion and why we must maintain our sense of purpose once life goes back to normal.

Whilst it has been heartening to see the fintech community rally round to tackle the new problems that people are facing, the real test will come in making sure that we don’t let this renewe...

Merchant totals, predicted income and more: Check out the changes to our platform rolled out this month.

Towards the back end of last year, Bud’s development teams were working on a series of major updates to the platform. These have now started to roll out and since Christmas, the platform has...

Open Banking in 2020: an analysis of what to expect this year.

The closing of the 2010s and the dawn of a new decade herald an early milestone in the development of the UK's fintech ecosystem. It is now two years since the legislation underpinning Open ...

We’re welcoming a new Chair of the board today: Lord Stanley Fink

2020 is shaping up to be an exciting year - so to kick it off, I want to welcome a new face and (re)welcome and old one to our board. Lord Stanley Fink spent seven years as the CEO of Man Gr...

Bud and HSBC sign global partnership

Over the last 2 years we’ve been working with HSBC first to help frame, then to help test the potential that Open Banking can deliver for their customers. Today we’re announcing that we’ve m...

White paper: How bud uses and protects personal data

Any company that has access to personal data must decide how to balance the interests of the end user with its own when setting data policies.

Beyond Banks: Announcing our portal for SMEs and fintechs

Everything we do at Bud is about helping people to get where they want to in life and we’ve spent the last 2 years working almost exclusively with big financial institutions because that is ...

Insights from Podcast #6: Working parents and their relationships with money

Bud and GoCompare to enable energy switching in bank apps.

Here’s what it means for financial service providers and their customers.

An introduction to the Bud platform

Since announcing our first partnership with HSBC and first direct more than a year ago, it’s been our intention to make the Bud platform as widely available as possible.

Why building societies are the sleeping giants of open banking.

Open Banking represents a huge opportunity for building societies. From improving the effectiveness of lending through automation to providing the technical capability that underpins radical...