Harness the full potential of the European account information payments directive
The BBVA Accounts PSD2 API provides you with information about the payment accounts held by your customers, in a secure environment that meets the requirements established by the European regulator. Access the information needed to provide the account information service to your customers, build the value proposition for your information, management or financial intelligence service or product.
The purpose of the account information service is to obtain aggregate information about one or more payment accounts, held by your customers. The technological heart of this ambitious European regulation is APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
This gives customers an overview of their financial situation and enables them to easily analyze their activity and financial needs with the provider of their choice.
Advantages of the Accounts PSD2 API
Aggregate your customers’ payment account information: list of accounts, balances, activity (date, reason, and amount) and account holders. Become your customers’ primary source of financial status information and take the chance to devise discovery strategies.
With constantly updated access to the status of your customers’ accounts, you can offer your professional services based on real and up-to-date data. Extract, analyze, add your expertise to offer your customers Personal or Business Financial Management services.
Depending on your business model and with your customer’s consent, you can reduce wait times in the risk analysis of a credit transaction, based on the data provided by the account information service.
The Accounts PSD2 API offers:
Using the Accounts PSD2 API requires a license to provide account information services in the country. The service is deployed through Redsys, a company that has developed the BBVA API for the provision of the account information service.
The PSD2 provides a unique opportunity for accessing your customers’ payment account information and being able to use it as one more resource when creating services and products that suit exactly what they are looking for. Integrating this API into your ecosystem will make the process much simpler, more efficient and more intuitive.
Ana Climente
Head of Open Banking at BBVA Spain
Read about our other APIs that enable you to offer payments and other banking services to your individual or business customers, all under your own brand.
Spain
Allows your customers to start their payments immediately and automatically from your own platform.
Spain
If you are a card issuer, confirm the availability of funds in your card’s direct debit account.
Spain
Subject to express consent, customer may share their BBVA identification data. This will help you speed up customer registration and engagement of your solution.
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