In the scope of the European Payment Services Directive 2015/2366 (also known as PSD2), CIC provides API access to qualified Third Party Payment Service Providers for the following purposes:

• Account and Transaction Information for Account Information Service Providers (AISPs)
• Checking of Funds Coverage for Card-Based Payment Instrument Issuers (CBPIIs)
• Payment Initiation for Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs)

These APIs are available at https://oauth2-apiii.e-i.com/cic/, with a sandbox environment at https://oauth2-apiii.e-i.com/sandbox/cic/.

Subjects

• Registration for API Access - Who can access the APIs, under what criteria?
• OAuth 2 and Strong Customer Authentication Workflows - How, when, and under which conditions will Strong Customer Authentication be processed?
• OAuth 2 Endpoints - How is OAuth 2 implemented?
• Open Banking API Endpoints - How to call the endpoints, what do they return?

API Specifications

If you want to dive directly into the APIs, they are documented as OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) files:

• View OAuth 2 Endpoints Specification
• View Open Banking API Endpoints Specification

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