Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API?

Posted by pedanticpolice on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want a bank or service that gives me direct access to transactions data over API.

There was a great Ask HN about this a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12359560), but no easy way to get API access to my own transactions as a regular consumer.

Anyone know of something like this?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by tobylane on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:46AM (#16060873)

The EU is mandating considerable openness including API access for customers this year. PSD2 may come to US customers of international banks.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by boysabr3 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:31AM (#16061218)

Afaik https://plaid.com/ allows you to access transaction data

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by gakos on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:36PM (#16064836)

But Plaid doesn't offer banking services, just balance and transaction data from traditional banks (as well as some other services like authentication). Used their API for a side project and recommend it.

Dwolla is another player in this space. https://www.dwolla.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by jrowley on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:25AM (#16062298)

Simple Bank allows you to export your transaction data as json, but I don't think they have a public API.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by bob_theslob646 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:01AM (#16060605)

The transcation data you seek is proprietary.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a consumer facing API? by bckygldstn on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:08PM (#16073613)

But it's your own transactions.

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