Frankfurter Volksbank Open Banking & API Access

Reaching your Frankfurter Volksbank data no longer means wrangling certificates or bespoke bank integrations. open-banking.io gives you PSD2 access to Frankfurter Volksbank (BIC FFVBDEFFXXX) across 2,600+ European banks through one service, covering both business and personal accounts. Everything is encrypted so that only you can read it: your keys are generated on your own device, and open-banking.io holds nothing but your public key.

How to connect Frankfurter Volksbank

Connecting happens entirely in the open-banking.io dashboard — there is no API call, code, or key involved in linking an account. The steps:

  1. Sign up for open-banking.io and set your encryption passphrase. Your private decryption key is created locally and never leaves your device.
  2. In the dashboard, pick Frankfurter Volksbank and choose the account type (business or personal).
  3. You are redirected to Frankfurter Volksbank's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen.
  4. Your accounts sync back into the dashboard, ready to view. Consent lasts up to 180 days before Frankfurter Volksbank asks you to re-approve.

Access your data

Once a connection exists, developers can optionally read it programmatically. 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 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 CLI and SDK only read and sync connections you already made in the dashboard — there is no connect command.

This is what keeps the service zero-knowledge and certificate-free: an API key alone returns only ciphertext, because without your private key the data cannot be read — not even by open-banking.io's servers. Access to Frankfurter Volksbank and the full network runs about EUR 3/month.

Do I need a QWAC or eIDAS certificate?

No. open-banking.io handles the PSD2 layer, so you never manage certificates to reach Frankfurter Volksbank.

Can open-banking.io read my Frankfurter Volksbank transactions?

No. The service stores only your public key; decryption happens on your device with a private key only you hold.

Does the API key connect the account?

No. Connecting is done in the dashboard via Frankfurter Volksbank's consent screen. The API key only reads existing connections.

Start at open-banking.io.