Streamline
Gain efficiencies by building to industry API standards and use our sandbox to test your innovations.
Contribute
Join our API Centre to be part of a new API-enabled network and contribute to API standards development.
Partner
Form partnerships with other registered Standards Users to deliver your service innovation to Kiwis.
How it works
Industry driven
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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Open standards
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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Managed use
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 the standards through bilateral agreements with other registered Standards Users.
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Inclusive ecosystem
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 the standards and contribute to pre-release standards.
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News
Latest API standards now in sandbox
V2.0 of our API standards for Payment Initiation and Account Information are now available in our API Centre sandbox
Read moreVersion 2.0 API standards now published
We’re pleased to announce the release of v2.0 of our API Centre standards for Payment Initiation and Account Information, which includes some much anticipated new optional functionalities.
Read moreSupporting New Zealand’s first open banking hackathon
We were pleased to be sponsors of the BankEngine Hackathon which was held over the weekend of 28 -29 September. Find out what happened.
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