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Berlin, Germany, Scala developer. ONSITE.

Open Bank Project is an open source API for banks that provides a consistent RESTful interface on top of disparate core banking systems. We're working with a range of banks around the world.

If you're interested, please email: jobs AT tesobe DOT com

A little more info here: http://www.meetup.com/Scala-Berlin-Brandenburg/messages/boar...

cheers!

Simon.

HM Treasury report defo aims at the UK Banks supporting the same API - which is the mission of Open Bank Project.

Yep, the OBP approach is to use OAuth (currently 1.0a) so the App doesn't have to see the credentials.

The report sets out a framework rather than a specification at this point. It talks about a phased approach starting with open data (e.g. branches, products) then transaction history and then write (e.g. payment) options. PSD2 from the EU might well influence the operations supported first.

thanks for your patience, should be faster now!

Thanks!

Folks, Sorry about the initial slowness we had to tweak apache configuration in front of jetty. Here is the url again: https://uk.openbankproject.com/

Hi Folks, Simon here from the Open Bank Project. We're based in Berlin but were involved from the early stages in the report published by the UK Treasury. We put up the sandbox to get feedback on the APIs etc. Guess we have some high load on one of our servers at the moment! Feel free to ask any questions. (AMA??)

While I wait for the pages to load... Any fintechs (or other) actually planning on implementing this API? What is the relationship like with the industry? (Is there feedback being implemented in the API?)

More information would help. There seems to be interest around the world to change/modernize the financial industry for consumers. Thanks for taking questions.

Hi Folks, Open Bank Project is an open source API for banks that is designed to sit on any core banking:

https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API/wiki/Sandbox

We're currently introducing a Kafka layer which core banking connectors can interface with in any language. Else you can use Scala / Java code to connect to banking (or blockchain?) interfaces directly.

The core is AGPL plus commercial licenses for banks that don't want to abide by AGPL or get commercial support. SDKs etc are Apache licensed.

Regulation from EU (PSD2) and UK government Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) initiative is starting to move the API needle :-)

cheers, Simon (founder of OBP)