[Openid-specs-fapi] Berlin group - Workplan for 2025

[Anders Rundgren]

Since the Berlin Group may be considered as a competitor to FAPI their plans should be of some interest.

This particular page highlights a "Wallet integration" API work-item:
https://c2914bdb-1b7a-4d22-b792-c58ac5d6648e.usrfiles.com/ugd/c2914b_c148b5e7cb604e768ad3449d9423fe38.pdf#page=8

IMO, Berlin Group's approach to payment APIs will never scale unless a wallet is also standardized.  Since the latter is at least 5 years away from becoming a reality, the European Commission is in for major hurdles.

I believe my take on payment APIs for Banks, is way more usable because it permits experimentation:
https://github.com/cyberphone/open-banking-2.0/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#open-banking-20

As I understand, the FAPI WG have no plans to engage in the "Wallet API war".

Related: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andersrundgren_better-late-than-never-2025-01-28-the-activity-7290017771441037312-URUA/
The conference was quite useful and also verified my view that the EU pilots have been too quick creating solutions while not bothered figuring out who the actors are!
Merchant = TPP? Yeah, sure 😆
https://github.com/openid/OpenID4VP/issues/342#issuecomment-2612132470

Thanx,
Anders