Together with the industry, from banks to startups, we’re creating the open banking standards and protocols needed to ensure fast, secure, user-friendly data sharing for Aotearoa New Zealand.
What we’re co-designing will power increased innovation, enabling businesses to create new products and services that will empower Kiwis’ financial wellbeing.
If you’d like to be part of NZ Inc’s open banking future, read on to find out more.
Gain efficiencies by building to industry API standards and use our sandbox to test your innovations.
Join our API Centre® community to be part of a new open banking ecosystem and contribute to API standards development.
Form partnerships with other registered Standards Users to deliver your innovation to Kiwis.
Joining our API Centre as a Community Contributor is free. You'll get access to our sandbox, powered by Middleware NZ, to test your innovation to our industry API standards.
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Our API Centre coordinates the ongoing development, management and governance of payment-related API standards and provides supporting services. It’s industry led and designed to respond to market needs.
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Our published standards are available for anyone to view. Joining the API Centre gives you more rights to contribute or use the standards.
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If you’re a potential API Provider such as a bank, or an interested Third Party, your organisation can apply to become a Standards User. You can then use our industry API standards through bilateral agreements with other registered Standards Users.
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Individuals, such as developers, can also join the API Centre as a Community Contributor. You'll be able to use our sandbox to test your innovation against our industry API standards and contribute to pre-release standards.
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We'll be at Techweek on 18 May 2022 sharing how open banking is developing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read more4 Dec 2020: We're pleased to announce the release of v2.1 of our standards which builds on the work done on v2.0 which were published in May 2020. Our API Centre register for Standards Users has also gone live.
Read more6 Nov 2020: This is our submission in response to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) discussion document ‘Options for establishing a consumer data right in New Zealand'.
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