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A side note: The big banks expose mobile apis to their apps. However, I'm pretty sure that those are for private use
by rckrd 11y ago
A side note: The big banks expose mobile apis to their apps. However, I'm pretty sure that those are for private use
- jhuckestein 11y agoYep, a friend of mine is building a product that exposes the private APIs that banking apps use in a developer-friendly way: http://teller.io/ http://teller.io/ That said, using your account data in that way with third parties is often against the terms of service that a customer has with their bank.
- asyncwords 11y agoThis is true for even some small-town banks. I switched to Windows Phone last year and built a personal banking app that would display my financial details on a live tile. While using Fiddler to figure out the necessary API calls, I discovered that my tiny bank's Android and iOS API was actually provided and maintained by a much larger bank. It turns out that the bigger bank has dozens of smaller banks using the very same API, and its a trivial matter of switching a URL slug to make my makeshift API work for these other banks. It was an interesting learning experience, but I did manage to get myself locked out of my own bank account a few times while replicating the login process.
- lamby 11y ago> I'm pretty sure that those are for private use .. And do you do everything you're told? ;) I think we put far too much weight into magic documents like Privacy Policies and Terms of Service, etc.