Founded in 2012, Tink was born in a time of disruption, reinvention and change across several industries – from music and entertainment to transport, it was all going digital. The idea was to bring this shift to financial services, giving the consumer more power, and creating great digital experiences that worked for them. Getting people closer to their finances than ever before, and making managing money not just easy – but even enjoyable. We knew that by opening up access to financial data, we could help power a new world of finance. As a pioneer of open banking and data enrichment, we set out to help create a better and fairer financial system that puts the needs of consumers firmly at its centre. This ambition remains at the heart of everything we do.
Fast forward to a post-pandemic era where we simply buy and pay, bank and borrow, communicate and share – all online. Open banking was the enabler that lit the fuse of the financial services revolution, and is a vital part of our heritage. And while open banking continues to be at the core of many of the services we offer, it’s one element of the value we bring to our partners – whether that’s banks, lenders, merchants or PSPs.
As part of Visa since 2022, we’re uniquely positioned to offer our partners a comprehensive suite of services across payments, banking and lending that take open banking even further. This includes making more seamless account to account payments, onboarding new users more easily, engaging customers by making better use of first-party data, and using data to make better risk decisions. What we thought of as the new world of finance over 10 years ago is different from where we are now. Today, our payments services and data enrichment platform ensure we can continue to power the new world of finance for the next decade – and beyond.