{"id":939,"date":"2026-01-04T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invelatempostg.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=939"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:08:42","slug":"invela-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.invela.com\/?page_id=939","title":{"rendered":"Invela Faqs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-custom-color-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-82212330f002406e3c3f0a31bbd98a31 wp-duotone-unset-1\" style=\"margin-top:0;padding-top:48px;padding-right:7px;padding-bottom:48px;padding-left:7px;min-height:66vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1200\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-893 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/invelatempostg.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-1080x1200.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-1080x1200.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-450x500.png 450w, https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-270x300.png 270w, https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-768x853.png 768w, https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background-1170x1300.png 1170w, https:\/\/www.invela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hero_background.png 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#5652a1\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-color-1-color has-background-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b0025197a46aea85e88e34f07b374ce8 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-bd58b573 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;background-image:none;background-size:cover;\">\n<!-- Invela FAQ \u2013 FULL COPY SAFE (1\u20139) -->\n<style>\n.invela-faq {\n  font-family: 'Plus Jakarta Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;\n  max-width: 980px;\n  margin: 0 auto;\n  padding: 16px;\n  line-height: 1.7;\n  color: #1f2937;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-title {\n  font-size: 32px;\n  font-weight: 700;\n  text-align: center;\n  margin-bottom: 36px;\n  color: #111827;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-section {\n  margin-bottom: 36px;\n  padding-bottom: 28px;\n  border-bottom: 1px solid #e5e7eb;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-section:last-child {\n  border-bottom: none;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-question {\n  font-size: 19px;\n  font-weight: 700;\n  color: #111827;\n  margin-bottom: 16px;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-subquestion {\n  font-size: 15px;\n  font-weight: 600;\n  margin: 24px 0 10px;\n  color: #1f2937;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-text {\n  font-size: 14px;\n  color: #4b5563;\n  margin-bottom: 12px;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-list {\n  padding-left: 22px;\n  margin-bottom: 12px;\n}\n\n.invela-faq-list-item {\n  font-size: 14px;\n  color: #4b5563;\n  margin-bottom: 8px;\n}\n\n\/* MOBILE ACCORDION ONLY *\/\n@media (max-width: 767px) {\n  .invela-faq-section {\n    border: 1px solid #e5e7eb;\n    border-radius: 8px;\n    padding: 0;\n    overflow: hidden;\n  }\n\n  .invela-faq-question {\n    padding: 16px;\n    margin: 0;\n    cursor: pointer;\n    background: #fafafa;\n  }\n\n  .invela-faq-question::after {\n    content: \"\u2304\";\n    float: right;\n    transition: transform 0.3s ease;\n  }\n\n  .invela-faq-section.open .invela-faq-question::after {\n    transform: rotate(180deg);\n  }\n\n  .invela-faq-body {\n    max-height: 0;\n    overflow: hidden;\n    padding: 0 16px;\n    transition: max-height 0.35s ease;\n  }\n\n  .invela-faq-section.open .invela-faq-body {\n    max-height: 20000px;\n    padding: 16px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"invela-faq\">\n  <h1 class=\"invela-faq-title\">Invela FAQs<\/h1>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 1 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      1. What is Invela and how does it complement existing risk management solutions?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">1a. What is Invela?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela is the first-of-its-kind open finance risk management network that infuses trust and confidence across the ecosystem through standardized accreditation, dynamic risk monitoring and insurance-backed warranty.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Open finance has fundamentally reshaped financial services, yet a critical confidence gap in risk management continues to limit its full potential.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Across the ecosystem, participants are searching for a solution: banks and credit unions face fragmented risk visibility and escalating third-party liability, as well as resource-intensive oversight and associated costs. Aggregators and third-party providers struggle with operational risks and cost burdens.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela is the bedrock open finance risk management network \u2014 providing the foundation for efficiency, resilience, and richer, more personalized financial services across banking, payments, insurance, and wealth.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">1b. How does Invela deliver additional value to complement traditional onboarding or Know Your Business vendors?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Traditional vendor onboarding and Know Your Business solutions offer static, point-in-time checks. Invela provides a complementary, dynamic, ongoing and near real-time risk management framework tailored to open finance. Our solution combines standardized accreditation with continuous risk indicator monitoring, plus an insurance-backed warranty which shifts liability to those parties introducing risk.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">1c. Why is entity-level monitoring complementary to transaction-level monitoring?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Transaction-level tools focus on payments, omitting data and therefore failing to capture the full risk profile. Invela\u2019s entity-level approach monitors structural indicators like complaints, fines, and behavioral anomalies across consent flows and authentication rates \u2013 providing a multidimensional view of risk that supports proactive governance.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 2 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      2. Who are the participants in the Invela Network?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n      <ul class=\"invela-faq-list\">\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Account Providers \u2013 banks, credit unions, and building societies.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Access Aggregators \u2013 intermediaries.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Technology Service Providers \u2013 entities serving financial institutions.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Data Recipients \u2013 fintechs delivering data and deliver payments use cases.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n        <p>Together, these entities serve Account Holders; end consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 3 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      3. What is Invela Accreditation?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">3a. What is Invela Accreditation?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">A first-of-its-kind, purpose-built framework for vetting third-party provider risk in open finance. Integrating validated assessments performed by S&amp;P Global, Invela Accreditation empowers financial institutions to make confident, evidence-based account access decisions \u2013 at scale. Invela Accreditation also enables aggregators and third-party providers to complete one standardized accreditation to access many financial institutions, reducing both friction and the compliance burden.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">3b. Why is accreditation important?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The open finance ecosystem faces rising threats from fraud, data breaches, and opaque third-party practices \u2013 leading to reputational damage and financial loss. Financial institutions lack visibility as to the full range of entities accessing accounts, and they lack standardized tools to assess those aggregators and third-party providers. Meanwhile, aggregators and third-party providers must navigate duplicative, manual risk assessments for every financial institution \u2013 slowing innovation and increasing cost.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">3c. What are the respective roles of Invela and S&amp;P Global?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">S&amp;P Global delivers rigorous, financial-grade assessments conducted by experienced professionals from S&amp;P Global\u2019s KY3P\/Trusight team, which evaluate each third-party provider\u2019s cybersecurity, business continuity and operational resilience. Once validated, these assessments are integrated into Invela\u2019s own analysis, which includes Know Your Business checks, information security reviews, and open finance-specific criteria such as use case validation. The result is the Invela Accreditation: a clear, trusted signal that a third-party provider meets the standard for secure financial data access and is eligible to join the Invela Network.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">3d. How long does accreditation take?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The process is designed for depth and efficiency. A well-prepared third-party provider can complete all the questions in 1-2 days, after which their answers are reviewed by Invela using validated assessments performed by S&amp;P Global. Reaccreditation occurs annually or upon material changes like mergers, or business model shifts.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">3e. How do financial institutions and aggregators engage their third-party providers to become accredited?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Financial institutions and aggregators can invite their third-party providers via the Invela Registry. Bulk invitations are also supported.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 4 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      4. What is Invela Risk Indicator?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">4a. What is Invela Risk Indicator?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Risk Indicator delivers continuous, near real-time monitoring and dynamic risk scoring of third-party providers \u2013 purpose built to safeguard the open finance ecosystem. Transparent, actionable insights empower financial institutions and aggregators to make informed decisions, maintain open finance ecosystem integrity, and manage compliance costs. Third-party providers receive guidance on where to make improvements to strengthen their risk indicator score.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">4b. Why is risk indicator scoring and monitoring important?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Open finance ecosystems face rising threats from fraud, data breaches, and opaque third-party behavior \u2013 leading to reputational damage and financial loss. Financial institutions and aggregators lack robust, near real-time tools to assess and manage risk across a growing network of third-party providers. Meanwhile, aggregators and third-party providers must navigate fragmented oversight, increasing operational burden and uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">4c. How does near real-time risk indicator monitoring work?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela Risk Indicator provides dynamic risk scoring and continuous, near real-time monitoring. Scores incorporate external data (e.g. financial health, dark web intelligence), volumetric analysis, and behavioral signals. Financial institutions receive alerts when a third-party provider\u2019s risk score falls below their pre-set thresholds. Alerts, and supporting insights, give financial institutions the evidence required to support decisions to restrict account access, and to re-instate it once issues are resolved. Third-party providers can view their own score, encouraging self-governance.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">4d. Can third parties challenge a risk indicator score before their account access is restricted?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Third-party providers are alerted early and given a chance to remediate \u2013 the goal is to support resolution before escalation. In urgent cases (e.g. data breach) Invela notifies financial institutions and relevant aggregator(s) immediately.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">4e. Can you risk score parties outside the Invela Nework?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Full risk scoring requires network participation \u2013 refusal to participate may itself be a risk indicator.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 5 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      5. What is Invela Warranty?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">5a. What is Invela Warranty?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela Warranty is our promise to materially reduce the risk in interactions between financial institutions and third-party providers. We do so by standing by our services and offering a warranty that covers financial institutions in the case of material data breaches at one of the entities that possesses the financial institution\u2019s data. As such, the Invela Warranty is fully incremental to the typical cyber cover already held by the financial institution.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">5b. Why is insurance-backed warranty important?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">In combination with Invela Accreditation and Invela Risk Indicator, Invela Warranty shifts economic responsibility to the parties introducing risk. Our Warranty promise will guarantee payment in the event that a warranty payout is triggered. This creates proportional accountability, enabling fairer liability allocation and infusing trust and confidence across the open finance ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 6 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      6. How does Invela use AI?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">We evaluate how aggregators and third-party providers use AI: What AI systems are they running? What data flows through those systems? What governance do they have in place? How does AI usage affect the risk they present?<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">We do this because third-party providers spin up and down quickly. As they adopt AI, the risk surface changes constantly. Traditional third-party relationship management doesn\u2019t capture this.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>Invela\u2019s AI principles:<\/strong><\/p>\n      <ul class=\"invela-faq-list\">\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Grounded in evidence \u2013 every AI output references live data; public records, research, or customer documents. No hallucinations.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Human-in-the-loop \u2013 anomalies and critical decisions automatically escalate for human review.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Self-assessment \u2013 AI rates its own confidence, flagging variance outside acceptable thresholds.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Data isolation \u2013 complete separation between customer environments. No cross-pollination.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 7 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      7. What risks do participants face and what benefits does Invela deliver?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">7a. What risks do financial institutions face and what benefits does Invela deliver?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Today, banks, credit unions and building societies face rising demand for third-party connections, driving higher operational overhead and increasing third-party risk. In absence of robust yet proportional third-party risk management programs, opportunities are missed, anomalies go undetected, objective evidence is missing, and responses to breaches and cybercrime are delayed.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Many institutions are completely blind to the level of risk they absorb, as they do not have visibility on where exactly their customers\u2019 data is going. Furthermore, without a mechanism for offsetting liability, financial institutions bear full responsibility for consumer harm \u2013 heightening both financial exposure and reputational damage.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela delivers scalable operational efficiency and resilience.<\/p>\n\n      <ul class=\"invela-faq-list\">\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Faster onboarding, reduced costs \u2013 of trusted aggregators and third-party providers via a single, standardized accreditation, optimized for open finance, which frees up resource and avoids incremental hires<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Service acceleration \u2013 via access to network of accredited aggregators and third-party providers<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Improved risk detection \u2013 via near real-time risk intelligence detecting and flagging anomalies, enabling better understanding of the risk associated with different aggregators and third-party providers, and how that risk is changing, in near-real time.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Stronger risk management \u2013 reduced exposure to data breaches and other cybercrime via alerts sent when selected risk appetite thresholds are breached.<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Enhanced liability protection \u2013 through objective, auditable accreditation and risk indicator scoring \u2013 plus insurance-backed warranty should harm occur<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">7b. What risks do aggregators face and what benefits does Invela deliver?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Today, aggregators face a fragmented and inefficient accreditation environment. Each financial institution applies bespoke standards, forcing duplicated effort, higher costs, and inconsistent compliance burdens.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The strategic consequences are equally significant. Delayed partnerships with financial institutions and third-party providers erode time-to-market. Elevated compliance and onboarding demands drain resources from innovation, and growth, while the absence of shared infrastructure prevents economies of scale and keeps costs high.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela delivers scalable operational efficiency and resilience.<\/p>\n\n      <ul class=\"invela-faq-list\">\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Single application, multiple institutions \u2013 access all financial institutions on the Invela Network via a single, streamlined, standardized accreditation optimized for open finance<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Faster time to market \u2013 accelerate partnerships with financial institutions and third-party providers<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Focus on growth \u2013 free up resource via efficient onboarding of third-party providers<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Increase resilience \u2013 reduce the potential for financial institutions to switch off aggregator account access<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Stewardship \u2013 demonstrate good stewardship of the open finance ecosystem<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">7c. What risks do third-party providers face and what benefits does Invela deliver?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Today, third-party providers face fragmented, duplicative accreditation processes across multiple financial institutions and aggregators.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The absence of risk benchmarking data further reduces the ability to identify performance improvements.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela delivers scalable operational efficiency and resilience:<\/p>\n\n      <ul class=\"invela-faq-list\">\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Single application, multiple institutions \u2013 access all financial institutions and aggregators on the Invela Network<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Scalability &amp; operational efficiency<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Faster time to market<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Fix issues fast \u2013 with near real-time insights<\/li>\n        <li class=\"invela-faq-list-item\">Increase trust \u2013 participation in bank-endorsed network<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 8 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      8. How does Invela support regulation?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">8a. U.S.<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How does Invela support compliance with prudential regulation?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela provides evidence-based recommendations which enable participants to act consistently, proportionately, and in line with regulatory expectations.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">8b. UK<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How does Invela fit with the UK government\u2019s regulated approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela supports Smart Data\u2019s growth in by aligning with the Financial Conduct Authority, the Payment Systems Regulator, HM Treasury, the Department for Business &amp; Trade, and the Department for Science, Innovation &amp; Technology to enable a joined-up industry approach on open finance risk management.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How does Invela align with the UK\u2019s Data Use and Access Act?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The Act lays the foundation for a Smart Data economy built on consumer empowerment, innovation, and public benefit. Invela\u2019s Open Finance Risk Management solution supports this ambition through scalable, industry-led defences.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How does Invela support Consumer Duty obligations?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Consumer Duty requires financial institutions to protect customers. Invela provides evidence-based risk indicator scores that justify account access restrictions &#8211; even for regulated third-party providers &#8211; when material risk is present. This helps financial institutions balance consumer duty with account access.<\/p>\n\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How does Invela handle unregulated TPPs (4th, 5th, nth parties)?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela surfaces risks from unregulated actors by tracking complaints, fines, and ecosystem behaviour. This helps financial institutions manage exposure beyond regulated entities and strengthens overall open finance ecosystem integrity.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">8c. Canada<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\"><strong>How is Invela adapting to Canada\u2019s regulatory approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Invela is closely tracking Canada\u2019s evolving Consumer-Driven Banking legislation and regulation. Our model is designed to align with Canada\u2019s emphasis on consumer empowerment, innovation, competition, and public trust.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- FAQ 9 -->\n  <div class=\"invela-faq-section\">\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-question\" onclick=\"toggleFaqMobile(this)\">\n      9. Where is Invela launching, and why?\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"invela-faq-body\">\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">9a. Why are you launching in the US \u2013 and why now?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The US is the world\u2019s largest market-driven open finance ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">9b. Why are you launching in the UK \u2013 and why now?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">The UK has led the world in regulated open banking.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">9c. Why are you launching in Canada \u2013 and why now?<\/div>\n      <p class=\"invela-faq-text\">Canada\u2019s consumer-driven banking ecosystem stands at a critical inflection point.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"invela-faq-subquestion\">9d. 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