Access Echterdinger Bank Data — Open Banking API

Echterdinger Bank eG is a cooperative bank serving Leinfelden-Echterdingen and the wider Baden-Württemberg region. With open-banking.io you can pull your Echterdinger Bank balances and transactions into one place under PSD2 — covering both business and personal accounts — without certificates, screen-scraping, or a bank-specific developer program. The service reaches 2,600+ European banks for around EUR 3/month, and it is built to be zero-knowledge: the servers only ever hold your public key, so nobody but you can decrypt what syncs in.

How to connect Echterdinger Bank

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 own device, so the private key never leaves it.
  2. In the dashboard, search for Echterdinger Bank (BIC GENODES1ECH) and choose the account type you want to link — business or personal.
  3. You are redirected to Echterdinger Bank's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's official PSD2 consent screen.
  4. Once you confirm, your accounts sync back into your dashboard. A single consent stays valid for up to 180 days, after which you simply re-approve.

Because authentication happens on the bank's side, open-banking.io never sees your Echterdinger Bank credentials.

Access your data

Programmatic access is an optional step for developers, available only after a connection exists. On the Developers page, create an API key and export a credentials.json — this bundles the API key together with your private decryption key. From there you can use the CLI (openbanking accounts, openbanking transactions, openbanking sync), an SDK, or the REST API. Requests carry the X-Api-Key header, and every response is decrypted locally with your own key. An API key alone only ever returns ciphertext — without your private key the data stays unreadable, which is what keeps the model genuinely zero-knowledge.

Do I need Echterdinger Bank's API to connect?

No. You approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen inside the open-banking.io flow — there is no separate Echterdinger Bank developer account to obtain.

Can open-banking.io read my Echterdinger Bank data?

No. The service stores only your public key. All decryption occurs on your device with a private key that never leaves it.

How long does access last?

Echterdinger Bank permits consent windows of up to 180 days. When one lapses, you re-confirm in a few clicks.

Start linking your Echterdinger Bank accounts at https://open-banking.io.