Alan Ainsworth is Fii’s Senior Advisor for Open Finance and a Research Affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Alan brings over 30 years experience in banking, payments and fintech, leading government relations for Barclays and Barclaycard consumer and payments businesses for over a decade.

More recently, Alan led strategy and policy at the UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) for nearly 6 years, working closely with policymakers, regulators, banks and fintechs to develop an open banking ecosystem that delivers for consumers and small businesses.

Alan has been interested in and involved in open data for financial services since the early days of the UK’s my data programme in 2011, where he was an original steering group member. Alan has also been a member of the Bank of England’s CBDC Technology Forum, and the UK’s Smart Data Council.