API banking ​
 – the foundation for innovative banking services 

  •  Access to the Swiss Open Finance ecosystem with API banking
  •  Innovation courtesy of embedded finance
  •  Improved service quality combined with lower costs

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Stay responsive to and fully accommodate changing customer banking needs with Open Finance.

Banking customers today expect a seamless digital service and outstanding user experience as standard. Open Finance is helping the Swiss banking community to open up and actively shape this opening despite a lack of regulation.

Open Finance is bringing a banking (r)evolution

An API platform not only helps banks cope with cost pressures; it also improves service quality for their customers because specialised companies provide the services. It relies on the processes and products being accessible to third parties over a secure API interface. This is where API banking comes into play, as it enables data to be exchanged in a secure environment and derives value from the data.

Enter new markets with embedded banking

Thanks to Open Finance, customers can do all of their banking in a familiar environment. They can pay bills, trade securities, check their insurance coverage or view their credit card bills with any bank or service provider with the same login. 
 
Open Finance relies on the secure and standardised exchange of data. The data protection and cybersecurity requirements are therefore particularly high. Swisscom’s Open Business Hub is a powerful technical platform for Swiss banks seeking secure access to the Open Finance ecosystem.

Swisscom: the perfect partner for Open Finance

Swisscom offers a wide range of interfaces that require no special knowledge to use.

Rapid prototyping and sandboxing to facilitate product and process configuration and optimisation, and the swift integration of innovations.

Swisscom Security Management guarantees maximum data security across all interfaces.

With its extensive cross-sector expertise and experience, Swisscom offers connectivity far beyond banking.

Our integration platform, your Open Finance ecosystem

The secure embedding of services within your value chain

Typical application scenarios in the Open Finance ecosystem

Customer needs are changing rapidly. In the past, customers visited banks in person; today, they do their banking using the bank’s digital and physical touchpoints – tomorrow, they will be using a single, provider-independent environment that meets all their needs.

PEP check

Banks have an obligation to reliably identify politically exposed persons and observe compliance guidelines.

Swisscom’s solution

The Open Business Hub uses a Pythagoras API for automated, accurate PEP detection and compliance verification, reducing manual effort and regulatory risk without requiring the customer to build the necessary expertise itself.

Multibanking for Individuals (retail)

Connection to accounting software

Connection to external asset managers

Digital appointment scheduling

“The Open Business Hub opens up completely new opportunities for us.”

Marcel Stauch, Member of the Executive Board of Thurgauer Kantonalbank, responsible for brokermarket.ch

Everything you need to know about API banking

Cooperation with SIX

Swisscom and SIX have joined forces to simplify the implementation of Open Finance in Switzerland

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