Development of an Unified Message Broker for Financial Applications in the Context of PSD2 : Capitalizing from PSD2 Through Data Retrieval and Analysis

Abstract: The EU has recently proposed a new directive called PSD2, which requires banks to define APIs to the systems, allowing third party providers to write financial applications and access customers’ data inside the banks, with the permission of the customer. PSD2 becomes effective on 18th of January 2018 and is expected to open up the market and remove the monopoly and ownership of customers from banks. As it is a directive, all countries inside the EU and countries covered by the European economic area such as Norway,Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland are affected. The business opportunity, which arises due to the directive, is an opportunity to find a way to be able to take the initiative and possibly monetize from the caused situation.The report presents a qualitative approach to develop a proof of concept with the purpose to display how an actor can create a solution that acts as a source of information and performs analysis to come up with valuable insights of consumers’ behaviour. The insights gained from this master thesis, open up new paths for innovation and competition on the market between actors providing similar services.