The Most Important CDR Update of the Year Happened in a Newsletter

On 27 January 2026, the ACCC quietly updated its guidance on third-party data sharing under the Consumer Data Right. It went largely unnoticed, but it fundamentally shifts the compliance burden for businesses leveraging banking and energy data. By greenlighting Treasury's "Third-Party Data Sharing" model, the regulator has effectively made some of the CDR’s most complex access pathways redundant. Biza built and launched openfeed to capitalise on this model, giving developers a zero-accreditation pathway to CDR data. Our team has broken down exactly what this means for corporate product roadmaps, regulatory overhead, and the future of consumer consent in the full article found here.