Banking APIs
There are an increasing number of APIs acting as hubs or aggregators for Banking services such as account data. Let's take a quick look at each here (please contact me to add any @aphethean on Twitter):
Open Bank Project (https://www.openbankproject.com/)
Overview: Designed to be a banking API enabler by hosting the hub across many banks or API deployed directly on top of a specific bank.
Technology: a REST-like API that does not make use of essentials such as hypermedia, content type negotiation, or link relations
Functional: Retail banking services such as account, transactions, and payments
License model: Open source, subscription hosting, or fee+maintenance
FIGO (http://figo.io/en/)
Overview: Designed to be a banking api enabler by hosting the hub across many banks.
Technology: a REST-like API that does not make use of essentials such as hypermedia, content type negotiation, or link relations
Functional: Retail banking services such as account, transactions, and payments
License model: Rate limited / per request.
Yodlee (http://www.yodlee.com/)
Overview: Transaction data aggregator; hosting the hub across many banks.
Technology: a REST-like API that does not make use of essentials such as hypermedia, content type negotiation, or link relations
Functional: Retail banking services such as accounts and transaction data.
License model: Rate limited / per request.
Kontomatik (http://kontomatik.com/)
Overview: Transaction data aggregator; hosting the hub across many banks.
Technology: a screen scraper at the backend, providing a REST-like API that does not make use of essentials such as hypermedia, content type negotiation, or link relations
Functional: Retail banking services such as accounts and transaction data.
License model: ?
Teller.io (http://teller.io/)
Overview: Transaction data API, acting as an api hub across many banks.
Technology: uses the banks mobile REST api to gain access to the customers transaction data and any options available in the banks mobile application, providing a REST API that makes use of hypermedia, content type negotiation, or link relations
Functional: Retail banking services such as accounts and transaction data.
License model: ?
