How to Expose APIs with an Open Banking Platform

In a previous post I described our vision of the Everyday Bank whose goal is to play an essential role in the everyday life of consumers -- not just at the moment of a financial transaction. In this post I also described that APIs alone are not enough but becoming a banking platform is essential to achieve this vision.

In another post I discussed how the Agile Integration concept can be leveraged to build such a banking platform and also presented an open banking reference architecture.

We now took these previous works and advanced one step further: based on Agile Integration we built an Open Banking showcase portal, which is entirely open, free, and self-service. This portal showcases how banks can expose APIs and become open banking standard compliant, such as PSD2 for Europe.

The portal can integrate with any open banking API specification. For the purpose of the showcase portal we integrated with the UK Open Banking Standard.

For best developer experience we also provide an interactive API documentation that allows developers to see how the API endpoints behave in real-time.

The showcase portal also allows different API access levels. These levels are freely configurable. For the purpose of the showcase we configured: sandbox, production, partner and premium access levels.

The Open Banking showcase portal also includes further features and functionalities like integrated identity management and single sign-on, an integration and transformation engine (based on Red Hat Fuse), an app gallery, everything is deployed on a scalable container platform (based on OpenShift) and we are constantly adding new functionality. The next planned addition will be to support the API design-first approach via including the apicur.io.

The Open Banking showcase portal is entirely free and self-service. Feel free to sign up and give us feedback.