Anyone using any open banking aggregators?
I’ve been using frollo to see all bank accounts in one place. The app in general feels way more like a tech demonstration for their APIs than actually trying to be a product itself though. Still it’s nice to see that there are ways to expose the data without having to give full user/password access.
I’m using Pocketsmith which has recently converted to using Open Bank feeds for Australian banks.
Pretty happy with Pocketsmith so far, been using them for about 4 years now.
I’ve never really considered them. My first thought is around security issues, though I don’t know much about the space.
That’s the nice thing about open banking is that now the banks are providing a read only API for 3rd parties that you’ve explicitly authorised the token for and can revoke at any time. Of course everything has potential security issues, but this is really more about privacy I think. You’re sharing your financial transactions with that 3rd party. They have obligations under the open banking rules, but it’s still an extra copy of your records sitting somewhere. But the upshot is potentially pretty big if you have multiple accounts, being able to see it all in one place.
I’ll have to look into it, surely someone has done an opensource implementation on GitHub that runs locally and doesn’t need a third party.
edit:
Good guy Luke
https://github.com/LukePrior/Australian-Open-Banking-Data-Database
Frollo. But I have trouble it doesn’t really show me anything with the weekly / monthly category spending
Frollo, but my bank my ppor mortgage is with hasn’t enabled the offset accounts for open banking so it’s a bit fucked
Tried Frollo. They try to do automated transaction tagging but it doesn’t work so well and that’s the only unique selling point over a spreadsheet.
Banks don’t genuinely want to push Open Banking, legislation is forcing them to support it.
