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by tucosan 655 days ago
Banks in Germany offer access to consumers via the HBCI standard. Not sure about the rest of the EU.
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Banks in Germany provide it because of EU regulation.

https://www.digiteal.eu/open-banking-apis-all-you-need-to-kn...

Those regulations are about sharing via trusted third parties, not direct to users.
some similar tools offer a way to parse the PDF files provided by your bank and import it. I wish we had something similar here to do that
This sounds illegal and against what GDPR stands for.
Why is accessing your own banking data through a standard against what GDPR stands for? GDPR has a right to data portability.
I miss interpreted. I thought someone else can gain access to consumer data.