Financial sector stock correlations with open finance implementation announcements show an average beta reduction of 0.15, implying lowered systemic risk and steadier price movements over a 90-day horizon. Slow, costly money movement, coupled with limited access to capital markets, holds millions of people back from financial well-being. This is exemplified by the global remittance market. According to the World Bank and the United Nations , about one in nine people globally are supported by the estimated $656 billion sent home as remittances by migrant workers. The global average cost of sending $200 of remittances is 6.5%, twice the 3% target outlined in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, collectively costing the world’s most vulnerable billions of dollars. Discussing the role of Agentic AI and Open Finance in the future of financial services, Jess Turner, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Open Finance and Developer Experience, Mastercard joined the FinextraTV studio at Mastercard's RiskX event in Rome. Turner explains the importance of creating a comfortable developer experience to enable solutions that give AI agents autonomy to act safely and securely with consumers towards a freer, open finance future. As part of this, she describes the key challenges to overcome from data governance to agentic discoverability and consumer consent. Open finance adoption among top-tier banks is expanding cross-market trading capabilities. This advancement is driving capital inflows into emerging markets, with MSCI EM index futures pricing in a possible 6% upside within the next 30 trading days.