<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just thought this may be of interest to the list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.about.hsbc.co.uk/~/media/uk/en/news-and-media/rbwm/170928-hsbc-uk-takes-first-step-into-open-banking.pdf" class="">http://www.about.hsbc.co.uk/~/media/uk/en/news-and-media/rbwm/170928-hsbc-uk-takes-first-step-into-open-banking.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More details and screenshots here: <a href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4925614/HSBC-s-Beta-app-allowing-customers-link-accounts.html" class="">http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-4925614/HSBC-s-Beta-app-allowing-customers-link-accounts.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe HSBC is the first large UK bank to publicly state it'll be launching an app that uses the OpenBanking APIs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Confusingly though, it says it will support 21 financial institutions - this sounds like significantly more than have committed to providing APIs. I can only guess that they must be using a hybrid API and screen scraping model.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(The app also looks like it will be a significantly better experience than using HSBC's current app to access HSBC accounts, so I guess the CMA are definitely winning the argument that forcing the release of APIs will drive innovation!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joseph</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>