Lauren Jones is Director, Market Development at Open Banking Exchange, a leading advisory practice in open banking delivery. Here she supports the growth of OBE both in the EU and globally. Open Banking Exchange is part of the Konsentus Group, an organisation wholly focused on open finance delivery.

Lauren has over 13 years’ experience in banking and payments. Formally, Head of Standards at Payments UK (now Pay.UK), she was responsible for the UK’s standards policy on behalf of banks, the government, and the wider industry.

She was also involved in the early-stage development of Open Banking data standards in the UK. She has represented the UK market at ISO, European Payments Council and various groups within the European Central Bank, Berlin Group and SWIFT and has long-standing experience in industry development activities and responding to the regulatory agenda. Since 2017 she has been working in various advisory roles for fintechs, market infrastructure companies and hardware manufacturers on their payment strategy and product development.

Expertise In: Payments