Hi everyone, As you know, as part of our grant from DIAL last year, the Mifos Initiative completed a proof of concept implementation of the UK Open Banking API standard on top of the WS02 API Gateway for Account Information and Payment Initiation requests. These Open Banking APIs are to serve as the Open Banking API layer on top of Fineract but also to replace the self-service APIs and provides secure way for both trusted first party as well as third party apps to connect.
I wanted to convene a working group of experts across the community to help advance those efforts as well as formulate a roadmap, explore different API gateways, etc. Some of the next steps we have at the moment are to map out current self-service APIs to the UK Open Banking API standards so our suite of first party apps like our mobile banking, mobile wallet, and online banking apps can connect. I'd also like to discuss creating comprehensive documentation as well as launching a developer portal around these APIs. I would like to use a Discourse group to house the discussion. If you're interested in joining, could you please reply to this mail and also create an account on our Discourse and I'll add you to the group. Best wishes, Ed Here is some of the past discussion on the topic. A couple recent threads on list that covered this topic and I linked to some of the background where we aimed to use Open Banking API as the secure means of connecting both trusted first party apps (i.e. mobile banking) as wells third party apps to the back-end. https://markmail.org/thread/pijv4kb5i5lmqx33 Here are the resources on Open Banking. I will share with you the lab environment soon and the repositories where all the open banking configuration is at. Docs: https://mifos.gitbook.io/docs/ *Mifos API Gateway Technical Overview:* Mifos API Gateway Technical Overview <https://docs.google.com/a/mifos.org/document/d/1Dt5GlMA5USlPHishVQp4M1FY-D6tz8g9aZjCayi-jkg/edit?usp=drive_web> Fineract API Gateway implementation - Handover ... <https://docs.google.com/a/mifos.org/document/d/1F7Wz5TaHfZ0quS-qjrUJleXWYwtRfMXdnZy3MdC50ws/edit?usp=drive_web> Webinar Demoing the POC built out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcP5U-hPwpY
