Abanca Portugal API Access & Open Banking Data

Pulling your Abanca (Portugal) account and transaction data into your own tools should not mean wrestling with eIDAS certificates, sandbox registrations, or a PSD2 developer portal. open-banking.io gives you a single, certificate-free path to your Abanca data across the EU and UK — 2,600+ banks behind one consistent interface, with every byte decrypted on your own device using a key that never leaves it.

Abanca in Portugal (the former Deutsche Bank retail network, BIC CAGLPTPLXXX) is supported for both business and personal accounts, with consent lasting up to the PSD2 maximum of 180 days before you renew it.

How to connect Abanca

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 an encryption passphrase. Your keys are generated locally on your device, so only you ever hold them.
  2. In the dashboard, pick Abanca (Portugal) and choose the account type — business or personal.
  3. You are redirected to Abanca's own secure login, where you approve access on the bank's PSD2 consent screen. Your credentials go to Abanca, never to us.
  4. Once approved, your Abanca accounts and transactions sync straight into your dashboard.

That is the whole connection flow. No developer redirects the account holder, and nothing is "connected" from a command line.

Access your data

Reading the data programmatically is an optional step for developers, taken after the bank is connected. 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. Every request carries the X-Api-Key header, and each response is decrypted locally with your key. An API key on its own only ever returns ciphertext.

Because open-banking.io is zero-knowledge, our servers hold only your public key — we can never read or decrypt your Abanca data. All of this runs for roughly EUR 3/month.

Does connecting Abanca require a certificate or developer account?

No. The dashboard flow uses Abanca's own consent screen; no eIDAS certificate or PSD2 registration is needed.

Can the CLI connect my Abanca account?

No. The CLI and SDK only read and sync connections you have already approved in the dashboard — there is no connect command.

Up to 180 days per PSD2 rules, after which you re-approve access from the dashboard.

Ready to start? Visit open-banking.io.