First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK • Hacker News Board

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

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Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by sredfern2 » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

cmdkeen wrote: post #6

aembleton wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not working for me either. I haven't read it all yet but I think this article is related: http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/feb/16/banking...

https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API seems to be related to them. The snazzy writeup suggests loads of people are involved but the project has a pretty low number of contributors. Is this the whole organisation or a subset of people doing some work relating to the concept. The idea of a common API is really fantastic mind you.

Hi Folks, Simon here from the Open Bank Project. We're based in Berlin but were involved from the early stages in the report published by the UK Treasury. We put up the sandbox to get feedback on the APIs etc. Guess we have some high load on one of our servers at the moment! Feel free to ask any questions. (AMA??)

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by joefarish » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

If you are interested in this, take a look at Mondo: https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/

Some news coverage here:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/29/digital-banking...

http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/25/meet-mondo-the-app-thats-g...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/mondo/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/mondo-s-ce...

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by joefarish » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

If you are interested in this, take a look at Mondo: https://getmondo.co.uk/

They are launching soon and will have an API: https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/

Some news coverage here: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/29/digital-banking... http://www.thememo.com/2015/06/25/meet-mondo-the-app-thats-g... http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/mondo/ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-18/mondo-s-ce...

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by thesehands » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:03 PM UTC

see also teller.io for the UK, Stevie gave a great talk on the same issue at a hackernews london meet up last year.

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by ichaib » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

neximo4 wrote: post #9

This doesn't look HM Treasury-ey is this by some other organisation?

Let by us at the Open Bank Project (www.openbankproject.com)

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by sjtgraham » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:13 PM UTC

neximo4 wrote: post #9

This doesn't look HM Treasury-ey is this by some other organisation?

The report was commissioned by the government and delivered by a private company Open Data Institute Limited. This sandbox is from another private company Open Bank Project aka Tesobe.

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by neximo4 » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

ichaib wrote: post #16

neximo4 wrote: post #9

This doesn't look HM Treasury-ey is this by some other organisation?

Let by us at the Open Bank Project (www.openbankproject.com)

How does this work. Will banks be using the same API structure in general, or is it more sort of an advice type of thing.

Also what type of operations are intended to be supported (read/write?)

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by sjtgraham » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

If you're in the UK and want a banking API (including payments and transfers), I'm building http://teller.io/. It's been in private beta about 2.5 months and access will be opening more broadly soon. I couldn't wait for banks to get themselves into gear so I reverse engineered all of their mobile apps, took their private APIs and expose a single unified API through Teller.

Here is a video of me cURL-ing my bank account yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwWccFD0wv8

Here is a CLI one of my beta testers @sebinsua/@nouswaves made for his bank account: https://github.com/sebinsua/teller-cli

So far the RBS banks, e.g. Natwest are in prod. If you bank with them, want super early access, understand it's beta product and will give some feedback: sg @ teller.io

Re: First Open Banking API Sandbox in the UK

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Post by neximo4 » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

sjtgraham wrote: post #19

If you're in the UK and want a banking API (including payments and transfers), I'm building http://teller.io/ . It's been in private beta about 2.5 months and access will be opening more broadly soon. I couldn't wait for banks to get themselves into gear so I reverse engineered all of their mobile apps, took their private APIs and expose a single unified API through Teller. Here is a video of me cURL-ing my bank acco…

How did you reverse engineer the Natwest/Ulster/RBS app. It is my understanding they use certificate pinning?