BNP Paribas Fortis API Access & Open Banking Data

Reaching your BNP Paribas Fortis accounts programmatically usually means chasing PSD2 certificates, sandbox registrations and eIDAS paperwork. open-banking.io removes all of that. It is a certificate-free service covering 2,600+ EU and UK banks, and it links to BNP Paribas Fortis (BIC GEBABEBB) for both business and personal accounts. Your data is encrypted with a key generated on your own device, so nobody — not even open-banking.io — can read it. Access runs for up to 180 days per consent before BNP Paribas Fortis asks you to re-authorise, all for roughly EUR 3/month.

How to connect BNP Paribas Fortis

Connecting happens entirely inside the open-banking.io dashboard — there is no API call, code or key involved in this step.

  1. Sign up for open-banking.io and set your encryption passphrase. Your keys are generated locally on your device; the service only ever holds your public key.
  2. In the dashboard, choose BNP Paribas Fortis and select the account type you need — business or personal.
  3. You are redirected to BNP Paribas Fortis's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen.
  4. Once approved, your accounts and transactions sync back into your open-banking.io dashboard, ready to view.

Because you authenticate on BNP Paribas Fortis's own pages, your banking credentials are never shared with open-banking.io.

Access your data

Want to pull the data into your own code? That is an optional developer step, available only after the connection above exists. From the Developers page, create an API key and export a credentials.json — it bundles the API key together with your private decryption key. Then use the CLI (openbanking accounts, openbanking transactions, openbanking sync), an SDK, or the REST API. Requests authenticate with the X-Api-Key header, and every response is decrypted locally with your own key. The API key alone only ever returns ciphertext; without your private key it stays unreadable. Note the CLI and SDK read and sync existing connections — they cannot create one.

Does open-banking.io see my BNP Paribas Fortis data?

No. It is zero-knowledge: data is decrypted only on your device, and the servers hold just your public key.

Do I need an eIDAS certificate?

No. open-banking.io is certificate-free — you approve access directly on BNP Paribas Fortis's consent screen.

How long does access last?

Up to 180 days per consent, after which you re-authorise with BNP Paribas Fortis from the dashboard.

Start at open-banking.io.