[…] In an interview published just this week, Matt Wilcox, president of digital payments at Fiserv, told Karen Webster that better connectivity and consumer trust would improve the experience on both sides of any financial services interaction, and would give rise to open banking. In an example of collaborative efforts to enable data sharing do be done in a more efficient manner, Fiserv and Plaid have partnered to help banks share data with outside entities, as APIs directly connect Fiserv’s client base of more than 3,000 hosted financial institutions to Plaid’s 8,000 third-party applications and services. […]