Intersection of Open Banking and Financial AI: How Will CBRT's Future Regulatory Steps Shape the Fintech Revolution?
The first stage of the digital revolution in the financial world was to digitize data; Now it's time to "rationalize" that data. Open Banking practices in Türkiye have gained legal and operational ground with the update of Law No. 6493 and
The first stage of the digital revolution in the financial world was to digitize data; Now it’s time to “rationalize” that data. Open Banking practices in Türkiye have gained legal and operational ground with the update of Law No. 6493 and the “GATE” infrastructure under the control of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) and the Interbank Card Center (BKM). The philosophy was clear: “Data belongs to the customer, not the bank.” But the revolution is not yet complete. The real storm is this open banking data (account
The Signal
Open Banking practices in Türkiye have gained legal and operational ground with the update of Law No. 6493 and the “GATE” infrastructure under the control of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) and the Interbank Card Center (BKM). The philosophy was clear: “Data belongs to the customer, not the bank.”
Why It Matters
But the revolution is not yet complete. The real storm will break when this open banking data (account transactions, spending habits) is integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM) and used in credit risk scoring, robo-advising and algorithmic trading.
Agile FinTech companies, which have now obtained Account Information Service (HBS) and Payment Order Initiation Service (ÖBS) licenses in Türkiye, have managed to infiltrate the “data castles” protected by giant banks.
1. Standardization Problem: Pulling data through the API is not the same as getting that data in clean, standard categories (kiosk spend, e-commerce, etc.) enough to feed a Machine Learning (ML) model. 2. Limit to “Processing” Data: CBRT and KVKK create very thick legal walls between “reading” the data and taking that data and cumulatively analyzing (processing) it for the purpose of “profiling” in a third-party AI model.
The Move
Who will be the legal addressee if a “Financial AI” (for example, a robo-advisor) fed with open banking data gives incorrect investment advice to thousands of people at the same time or produces a biased loan rejection decision?
Is it the traditional Bank providing the API? Is it a licensed FinTech offering the interface? * Or is it a Big Tech (Global Cloud/Tech Company) that offers that AI model (via API) as a service (MaaS)?
This complex equation creates a “black-box syndrome” of the CBRT and BRSA. Ankara’s expectation is the “Transparent and Explainable AI” obligations that will be put on the table very soon.
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