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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by jagger27 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:25AM (#27301668)
https://plaid.com/ does it well.
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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by lxgr on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:36AM (#27302273)
Don't they effectively do the exact same thing? As far as I know, they use screenscraping for most US banks rather than something OAuth-based.
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Re:Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts by jagger27 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:50AM (#27302441)
I think it depends on the bank. It's really up to the banks to provide a proper API.
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