The Open Banking Interviews: Maarten Verboven, Director of Open Banking, BNP Paribas Fortis

This week’s Open Banking Interview is with Maarten Verboven, Director of Open Banking at Belgium’s largest bank: BNP Paribas Fortis. Their collaboration with Tink and their recent new initiative Didid, a smartphone application that allows you to create your digital bucket list, provided a lot of food for thought to reflect on the future of banking.

Part X of The Open Banking Interviews (see part IX, with Reinout Temmerman, Payments Advisor at National Bank of Belgium).

BNP Paribas Fortis is the largest bank in Belgium. I saw that you have an API platform live already and that you are collaborating with Tink. How do you position both initiatives next to each other?

You are referring to our Open Banking Portal, where developers can find out all about the services we can provide via API’s. This portal supports our “Bank as a Service” initiatives. It…