Bremische Volksbank API Access & Open Banking

Reading your Bremische Volksbank accounts programmatically no longer means chasing eIDAS certificates or standing up your own PSD2 gateway. open-banking.io gives you a single, privacy-first path to your Bremen cooperative bank data across 2,600+ European institutions. Bremische Volksbank eG (BIC GENODEF1HB1) is supported for both business and personal accounts, with PSD2 consent valid for up to 180 days before you re-approve.

Everything is zero-knowledge by design. Your encryption keys are generated on your own device from a passphrase only you know, so open-banking.io holds nothing but your public key and can never read or decrypt your statements. No bank certificate, no regulatory onboarding, no infrastructure to maintain — just ~EUR 3/month.

How to connect Bremische Volksbank

Connecting happens entirely in 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 private key is created locally at this moment and never leaves your device.
  2. In the dashboard, search for Bremische Volksbank and choose the account type you need (business or personal).
  3. You are redirected to Bremische Volksbank's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen.
  4. Your accounts sync back into your dashboard, ready to view — for up to 180 days per consent.

That is the whole flow: you authorise directly with the bank, and open-banking.io only ever stores encrypted results.

Access your data

Once Bremische Volksbank is connected, developers can optionally read the data programmatically. From the Developers page, create an API key and export a credentials.json — this bundles your API key and 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. Without that private key an API key returns only ciphertext — the server has nothing to hand over in the clear.

Do I need a certificate or PSD2 licence?

No. open-banking.io is certificate-free. You approve access on Bremische Volksbank's login screen and never touch eIDAS onboarding.

Can open-banking.io see my transactions?

No. It is zero-knowledge — it stores only your public key. Decryption happens on your device with a key only you hold.

Can the CLI connect my bank?

No. The CLI and SDK only read or sync connections you already made in the dashboard; there is no connect command.

Start accessing your Bremische Volksbank data at open-banking.io.