Louise Beaumont is the Head of Marketing and Communications at Invela Network, a company building defences for the open finance ecosystem. She has spent decades working at the heart of global finance, from shaping open banking policy at Mastercard across 29 countries to advising the UK Government on its Smart Data Council. She has a PhD in Semiotics, which is basically the study of how language shapes what people believe, and she uses that lens every single day to cut through the jargon and noise that the financial industry hides behind.

She is blunt, she is sharp, and she has sat in enough boardrooms and policy rooms to know exactly where the gaps are and who is pretending not to see them. She is also one of the most recognised voices in open finance, regularly chairing panels at events like Money20/20 Europe and the Banking Transformation Summit.

On The Menu:

• Why banks lose visibility once data leaves their perimeter 

• What happens to open finance if Invela didn't exist 

• The "brain worm" moment that gets budgets approved 

• Why bilateral agreements can never scale in open finance 

• What category creation really means with zero benchmarks 

• Why regulators are cautious by design, not by choice 

• The real reason fintechs are investing cautiously in open finance