Retrieving the Banks of a Country
The list of banks for a country can be retrieved through a GET call towards the URL provided in the country.banks property of the call to retrieve all supported countries.
Request
GET /v1/banks?country_code={country_code} HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <Token>
Host: <Host>
curl -X "GET" "/v1/banks?country_code={country_code}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
-H "Host: <Host>"
Queries banks for the given country. It must comply with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 representation of the country, e.g. DE, GB, SE. Valid options are in the country.country_code property of the call to retrieve all supported countries.
Filters banks by supported transfer method Supported transfer methods that are:
SCT- SEPA Credit TransferSCT_INSTANT- SEPA Instant Credit Transfer
Defines "where" to start in the current collection. If no value for offset is provided, a default of 0 will be used
Defines how many elements to include in the result. If no value for size is provided, a default of 100 will be used. There is a maximum of 1.000 elements per request
Response
{
"banks": [{
"bank_name": string,
"country_code": string,
"bank_codes": Array<string>,
"bics": Array<string>,
"address": {
"street_address": string,
"street_address2": string,
"postal_code": string,
"city": string,
"region": string,
"country": string
},
"popularity": int,
"authentication_methods": Array<enum<PASSWORD|MOBILE|SMS_TAN|...>>,
"authorization_methods": Array<enum<...>>,
"transfer_methods": Array<enum<SCT, SCT_INSTANT>>,
"tokenizable": {
"ais": bool,
"pis": bool
},
"flows": {
"<flow.type>": ?{
"supported": ?bool
},
...
}
},
...],
"pagination": {
"count": int,
"total": int,
"next": ?string,
"prev": ?string,
"offset": int
}
}
banks holds an array of objects with information on the requested banks.
Name of the bank
List of bank codes associated with that bank
Number that describes the popularity of the bank for Open Banking consumers. A higher number indicates higher popularity.
List of supported methods to authenticate (e.g. accessing the consumer's bank account) and authorize (e.g. a payment).
Possible values are:
CLASSIC_TAN, ITAN, MTAN, CHIPTAN_MANUAL, CHIPTAN_FLICKER, SMARTTAN, SMARTTAN_PLUS, PHONE_TAN, PASSWORD, PHOTO_TAN, USB_DONGLE, EMAIL_TAN, PUSH_TAN, FINTS_SMARTCARD, FINTS_KEYFILE, APP_TAN, NONE, UNKNOWN
Detailed information on these values can be found here under "data.result.authentication_method".
See banks[].authentication_methods
The list of supported transfer methods that are:
SCT- SEPA Credit TransferSCT_INSTANT- SEPA Instant Credit Transfer
The tokenizable object provides information on whether or not consent tokens can be used.
Describes if a token can be used for AIS (Account Information Service).
Describes if a token can be used for PIS (Payment Initiation Service).
The flows object provides information on the flows for the bank.
The key of this property is the type of the flow (for example accounts) and the value is an object holding information about the flow.
A boolean indicator for whether or not the flow is supported for the bank.
The pagination objects holds several properties to enable paging through the results.
The amount of elements in the current result.
The total amount of elements that are available.
The URI to the next list of results. It is only present if more results are available.
The URI to the previous list of results. It is null if the offset is 0.
The current offset that indicates "where" to start in the current dataset.
Example
GET https://universe.openbanking.klarna.com/v1/banks?country_code=de HTTP/1.1
curl -X "GET" "https://universe.openbanking.klarna.com/v1/banks?country_code=de"
{
"banks": [{
"bank_name": "Postbank",
"country_code": "DE",
"bank_codes": ["10010010", "37010050", "59010031", ...],
"bics": ["PBNKDEFF370", "PBNKDEFF250", ...],
"address": {
"street_address": "THEODOR-HEUSS-ALLEE 72",
"street_address2": "",
"postal_code": "60320",
"city": "FRANKFURT AM MAIN",
"region": "",
"country": "DE"
},
"popularity": 10000,
"authentication_methods": ["PASSWORD"],
"authorization_methods": ["MTAN", "CHIPTAN_FLICKER", "CHIPTAN_MANUAL", "USB_DONGLE"],
"transfer_methods": ["SCT"],
"tokenizable": {
"ais": false,
"pis": false
},
"flows": {
"accounts": {
"supported": true
},
"account_details": {
"supported": false
},
"balances": {
"supported": true
},
"transactions": {
"supported": true
},
"transfer": {
"supported": true
}
}
},
{
"bank_name": "Deutsche Bank",
"country_code": "DE",
"bank_codes": ["10070000", "10070024", "10070100", ...],
"bics": ["DEUTDEBBXXX", "DEUTDEDBBER", ...],
"address": {
"street_address": "Taunusanlage 12",
"street_address2": "",
"postal_code": "60325",
"city": "Frankfurt am Main",
"region": "",
"country": "DE"
},
"popularity": 4979,
"authentication_methods": ["PASSWORD"],
"authorization_methods": ["MTAN", "ITAN", "PHOTO_TAN"],
"transfer_methods": ["SCT", "SCT_INSTANT"],
"tokenizable": {
"ais": false,
"pis": false
},
"flows": {
"accounts": {
"supported": true
},
"account_details": {
"supported": false
},
"balances": {
"supported": true
},
"transactions": {
"supported": true
},
"transfer": {
"supported": true
}
}
}],
"pagination": {
"count": 100,
"total": 1732,
"next": "https://universe.openbanking.klarna.com/v1/banks?country_code=de&offset=100&size=100",
"prev": null,
"offset": 0
}
}