Hanseatic Bank recognized the opportunities for competitive advantage presented by these Open Banking API standards. This compliancy is a possibility to improve time-to-market and enable new business models. However, the Hamburg-based private bank also felt a huge responsibility towards their current and future customers to protect their user data. To achieve this, Hanseatic Bank would need an integration partner that could work time efficient in order to meet deadlines set by the European Commission. Since PSD2 is a regulation rather than a standardization of the API itself, the solution would have to be adaptable, setting just the right technology infrastructures. In a safe cloud environment, with regard to the bank’s current IT processes.
“In order to comply with the Open Bank API standards, we decided to work with WSO2 technology. Yenlo was selected as the system integrator because of their extensive WSO2 experience. Together we created an efficient, scalable and secure Open Banking platform”. - Michael Luft, Head of IT at Hanseatic Bank
The solution
With this in mind, Hanseatic Bank started to implement the Open Banking API and PSD2 compliancy based on the WSO2 Open Banking technology stack – a technology that fits right in with the bank’s architecture principles. The company selected Yenlo as the system integrator. Their flexible integration as a service solution, called Connext, was exactly what Hanseatic Bank needed to complete their Open Banking journey. Together with a committed team at Hanseatic Bank, Yenlo’s WSO2 Open Banking experts realized the implementation of Connext as well as the continuous managing, hosting and operational support of the platform.
“The cloud-based Connext platform is Hanseatic Bank’s solution to the Open Banking requirements. Enabling new business models while being sure that all our user data is carefully protected”. - Michael Luft, Head of IT at Hanseatic Bank
The Result
Thanks to the fully implemented, hosted and managed Connext platform, Hanseatic Bank found their perfect solution to the Open Banking requirements. With this Managed Middleware Platform, the company is compliant with PSD2. Through Identity & Access management it has full control over who wants to access which user information. When it comes to security, the platform continuously monitors possible security risks, automatically shutting down parts of the system when needed. The Connext solution is fully scalable and will expand with the growing demand for API requests.
