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The Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) mandates that banks provide APIs for Account Information Service Providers (AISPs) and Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs) to use.

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Banks must prepare for PSD2 by creating APIs for AISPs and PISPs to use. Banks utilize a gamut of IT infrastructure components to provide services today, some of which may not be easily accessible via APIs. Banks should begin a PSD2 readiness program that includes the following steps:

  1. Understand the requisite API calls that will be used by AISPs and PISPs
  2. Identify account holding and transaction servicing systems
  3. Design secure web-tier and intermediate-tier systems for providing PSD2 API support between external AISPs and PISPs and internal infrastructure
  4. Utilize consumer identity and access management solutions for KYC, AML, and strong/risk adaptive authentication for customers.

Financial institutions should ensure that the following security elements are included in the externally facing PSD2 API architecture:

  • Edge Network Security with:
    • DDOS protection
    • Web application firewall
    • Threat detection and prevention
  • Highly available, load-balanced web-tier
  • API gateway for authentication & authorization of AISPs/PISPs; and request validation
  • CIAM system for consumer identity management, with
  • Adaptive Authentication options including
    • email/phone/SMS OTP
    • Mobile push apps
    • Mobile biometrics
    • User Behavioral Analytics (UBA)
    • USB & software tokens
    • eIDs
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