
Open Banking is part of a government initiative called the Consumer Data Right (CDR). The CDR is law that allows you to have more choice and control of your data and how it is shared. In the banking sector, CDR is known as Open Banking.
Consumer Data Right is an optional service, which means you can choose whether to use it or not.
There are special rules for accounts with more than one owner, that mean any of the account holders can choose to share data on a joint account, provided none of the account holders have disabled sharing on the account.
Under CDR, you can securely transfer your banking data to an accredited provider (also referred to as an ‘Accredited Data Recipient’), so you can investigate, compare, and access services more easily.
CDR legislation requires all banks to participate in Open Banking for their customers, but the choice to use it will be in your hands. You will have to authorise the sharing of any data, and your details will only be transferred via approved and protected mechanisms. Customer security and privacy is our priority and we will be taking all the right steps to safeguard your personal information.
Privacy safeguards and data security requirements are built into the CDR, and a business must be accredited by the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to handle your data.
Only the owner of an account can authorise for data to be shared. There are eligibility rules that determine which customers and accounts can be shared via Open Banking. Find out more here.
Eligible joint accounts will be automatically enabled for sharing, should any one of the owners wish to do so. However, any owner of a joint account can disable their joint account/s from being shared by the other owners. Find out more about joint account management here. Customers can only direct an accredited third-party to request banking data. At this point, Newcastle Permanent is not accredited to request banking data from other Australian banks.
Eligible Customers
To share your personal details, you must meet the following criteria:
Secondary Users
Secondary users have been given permission by the individual owner to act on the account. You must be linked to the account and have permission to make transactions on the account (e.g. Authorised user (authorised signatory), internet banking (full access) or secondary card holder of a credit card). You must also meet the CDR customer eligibility criteria:
Non-individuals
A non-individual must:
CDR Account Eligibility
To share your account data:
When you give an accredited provider permission to access your data held with your bank (e.g. Newcastle Permanent), a Data Sharing Arrangement is created between:
If you are an eligible CDR customer you will be able to select eligible accounts for sharing. The details of the Data Sharing Arrangement will be displayed, including; the accounts, requested data and data sharing period.
By selecting “I confirm”, you are agreeing to share your Newcastle Permanent data with the accredited organisation.
Once the new Data Sharing Arrangement is established you will be re-directed back to the accredited organisation, who will now be receiving your data.
Eligible joint accounts can be shared to accredited third parties by any account owner. All accounts are defaulted to 'enabled for data sharing'. Should one joint account owner wish to disable an account from being shared they can do so via the app or internet banking.
If you are not registered for internet banking, your account cannot be shared as it is not CDR eligible.
If you choose to disable your account, the account will be removed from any active Data Sharing Arrangements and all account owners will be notified.
To re-enable an account for data sharing, all account owners will need to log into internet banking and confirm.
To disable a joint account from data sharing:
To re-enable a joint account for data sharing:
Note: All account owners have to accept the change within 2 days. If all account owners do not accept the change, or the time expires the account will remain disabled for sharing.
Once you have established a Data Sharing Arrangement with an accredited organisation, you can view and manage the Data Sharing Arrangement in internet banking.
Where joint account data has been shared, all account owners can view the Data Sharing Arrangement. Only the initiator of the Data Sharing Arrangement can cancel it.
To cancel an active Data Sharing Arrangement:
To remove an account from a Data Sharing Arrangement:
Note: For joint accounts, removing an account will not disable the account from being added to new Data Sharing Arrangements. To disable a joint account for data sharing, refer to joint account management processes.
Note: Nominated representatives can stop data sharing even if the data sharing arrangement has accounts that the nominated representative does not have access to. Newcastle Permanent encourages you to check with other nominated representatives before stopping your data sharing arrangement.
Note: You can have multiple secondary users on your account.
An authorised user on your account cannot automatically share data on your account via Open Banking. As the account owner, you can control whether you enable them to share data or not. They will default to not being able to share data. To check who is enabled to share data on your account, view the Manage Data Sharing dashboard in internet banking.
You will only be able to share data if:
A secondary user can create and manage data sharing arrangements and include the account in these data sharing arrangements they make with an accredited provider (or 'Accredited Data Recipient').
The type of data they can choose to share with an accredited provider includes account data, transaction details and product specific data. They will not be able to share the customer data of the account owner/s.
A secondary user cannot:
An account owner can:
The account owner/s will be notified of any data sharing actions taken by the secondary user on their account.
If you are enabled but the account is not showing as available within a new consent, it is likely that one of the eligibility criteria isn't being met:
To share your business data, one or more nominated representatives must be elected for the business. The nominated representative can then share data, make changes, and withdraw data sharing arrangements on behalf of the business. Contact us on 13 19 87 or visit a branch to nominate a representative for your business.
The 'Open Banking Business Customer - Nominated Representative Authority' form will need to be completed. Please contact us on 13 19 87 or visit a branch to assist further.
A nominated representative can:
If a nominated representative is removed:
Any active data sharing arrangements created by the nominated representative will remain active until they expire, or the organisation (i.e. account owner/s) asks us to stop them.
Organisations may authorise one or more nominated representatives to share data on all accounts eligible for data sharing that are owned by the organisation. Please contact us on 13 19 87 or visit a branch to assist further.
If you are nominated but still can't share, one of the eligibility criteria isn't being met:
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