Banca di Bologna API Access & Open Banking

Banca di Bologna is a cooperative bank rooted in the Emilia-Romagna region, serving households and companies across the Bologna area. If you want your Banca di Bologna balances and transactions in one place — or wired into your own tooling — open-banking.io gives you PSD2 access without the usual friction of eIDAS certificates or a sandbox onboarding.

open-banking.io covers 2,600+ European banks and is built around a single privacy promise: your financial data is encrypted with keys generated on your own device, and only you can decrypt it. The service is zero-knowledge and certificate-free — it never holds a key that could read your Banca di Bologna data.

How to connect Banca di Bologna

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

  1. Sign up for open-banking.io and set an encryption passphrase. Your key pair is generated locally; open-banking.io only ever sees your public key.
  2. In the dashboard, search for Banca di Bologna (BIC BDBOIT22XXX) and choose the account type you hold — business or personal.
  3. You are redirected to Banca di Bologna's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen.
  4. Your accounts sync straight into your dashboard. Consent lasts up to 180 days, after which you simply re-approve.

That's the whole flow — you authenticate directly with Banca di Bologna, never handing credentials to anyone else.

Access your data

Once a connection exists, reading it programmatically is an optional developer step. 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 carry the X-Api-Key header, and every response is decrypted locally with your own key — the API key alone only ever returns ciphertext. The CLI and SDK read and sync existing connections; they never create one.

All of this runs for around EUR 3/month.

Do I need an eIDAS certificate?

No. open-banking.io is certificate-free — you connect Banca di Bologna through the dashboard and the bank's own consent screen.

Can open-banking.io read my transactions?

No. It is zero-knowledge and stores only your public key. Data is decrypted on your device with a private key that never leaves it.

Which account types are supported?

Both business and personal Banca di Bologna accounts, with consent valid for up to 180 days per approval.

Start at open-banking.io.