N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz

Re:N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz by Artemis2 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:02PM (#16629749)

> There is a standardized API for interfacing with banks, HBCI, which almost every other bank supports. Except N26, who stated that they have no plans to do so

Won’t that change when PSD2 comes into full enforcement?

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Re:N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz by tgsovlerkhgsel on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:01PM (#16632614)

Maybe/hopefully. Does PSD2 mandate a specific protocol? If not, I suspect each bank will just cook up some horrible, incompatible-to-everything-else API, and it will be completely useless.

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Re:N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz by Artemis2 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:10PM (#16632702)

IIRC this is exactly the case.

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