Rolands Mesters, Nordigen - In the Baltics, the markets are small, but the capabilities are huge (S2E11)

Rolands is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nordigen, an open banking data analytics platform in Riga, Latvia, that help banks, lenders and FinTechs to use open banking data to build more powerful applications in lending, personal finance and other verticals. Nordigen has obtained an Account Information Service Provider (AISP) license and is ISO27001 certified.

We talk about the origins of access to bank account data long before Open Banking regulation came into force, what the landscape in Europe looks like currently, and how Nordigen has followed their clients around the globe, deploying their highly specialized technology in countries as far as Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand. Rolands also draws out a vision for "open finance" and "open everything" that - following the Australian example - he sees developing in the future. Please forgive me for not resisting the urge to cover some history between Riga and Hamburg, my home town, which goes back more than 700 years with the Hanseatic League. 

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