Ben Metz | Source | CTO / CDO at Jack Henry & Associates

Jack Henry continues to create, grow and scale an ecosystem of over 250 fintechs that enables innovation, collaboration, and optionality where the integration is often at zero cost and zero lift for financial institutions.

Many consumers now have relationships with between 30 and 40 financial service providers — the majority of which are unchartered. That fragmentation creates complexity for the consumer and compromises financial health. It also presents financial institutions with an opportunity to achieve first-app status by aggregating all of their consumers' third-party providers and simplifying money management. To do that, financial institutions must be fully connected into the open banking ecosystem by way of safe, secure, reliable connections to third-parties.