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TrueLayer Embarks on Global Expansion with New APAC Hub in Australia

TrueLayer, the provider of financial APIs, has announced that it is establishing a presence in Australia.

This marks TrueLayer’s first major expansion outside of Europe, where it is already working with innovators from the largest markets such as Germany, Spain, France, and Italy. It follows the company securing a $35 million funding round led by Tencent and Temasek in June. TrueLayer will be the first European Open Banking specialist to establish a presence in Australia.

Earlier this year, TrueLayer was selected by the UK’s Department of International Trade to pilot its ‘fintech bridge’ programme to Australia, alongside Smart Pensions. As well as providing the ideal groundwork for TrueLayer’s expansion to APAC, the programme also includes TrueLayer’s participation in the upcoming Intersekt conference in Melbourne in October.

Hub will be the base for Singapore and Hong Kong expansion and comes ahead of new Australian Open Banking regulations

Beyond client demand, TrueLayer’s choice of Australia has been in part motivated by the country’s new Consumer Data Right (CDR) law which will come into full force in February 2020, and in part by the country’s strong home-grown fintech scene. The new legislation, which is similar to the UK’s Open Banking regulations, but wider in scope for data interoperability, enables consumers to access and safely transfer their financial data to trusted bodies via APIs.

TrueLayer provides a wide range of clients with an interface to access their customers’ data from financial institutions, and will bring its simple and secure API platform to Australia to help both local and multinational companies capitalise on the CDR regulations.

TrueLayer’s APAC operations will be overseen by Marie Steinthaler. Marie was previously Head of New Products at Zopa, where she oversaw its Open Banking strategy and implemented one of the UK’s first real-world use cases of Open Banking data in January 2018: income verification for loan applicants.

Marie Steinthaler, Head of APAC, said: “TrueLayer is entering Australia at the perfect time – Open Banking is set to explode much in the same way it has in the UK. We were at the forefront of this sea-change in Europe, and we are very excited to bring our developer-friendly API platform to Australia and the wider APAC region in quick succession.

Our immediate focus will be to grow our team in Australia and help our multinational clients to expand their offering in the region. We have a lot of experience in working with the Open Banking roll-out in Europe, and will use these learnings to build out our platform in the run-up to CDR’s February launch.”

Author

  • Editorial Director of the The Fintech Times

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