Access to Environments

Bank of Valletta

Status	Live
Certificate	Production
URL	https://openbanking.bov.com
Provider code	bov_mt
Launch date	09 March 2023

Bank of Valletta Sandbox

Status	Sandbox
Certificate	Test/Production
URL	https://openbanking.bov.com
Provider code	bov_mt_sandbox
Creation date	15 September 2022

Test credentials (Oauth)

Changelog

Timestamp

Change/note

25 Jul 2023

Following the EBA amendments under Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2360, this dedicated interface enables the SCA consent exemption under SCA-RTS, Article 10a for AISPs. This feature allows AISPs to extend the timeline for the renewal of SCA from every 90 days to every 180 days. To avail of the 180 days SCA consent exemption on the AIS flow, the newly created consents should contain the date value of up to 180 days in future for the validUntil parameter. In case you need any assistance on the above please contact us at: compliance@saltedge.com

Definitions

Term	Definition
API	Application Programming interface. A set of definitions, protocols, and tools that can be used to create applications, interact with other applications, and exchange data.
Provider	Represents the ASPSP. A bank or financial institution that offer payment accounts with online access.
ASPSP	Account Servicing Payment Service Provider. Payment service provider providing and maintaining a payment account for a payer.
TPP	An entity authorised to access accounts on behalf of customers but that does not operate those accounts themselves. TPPs include PISPs, AISPs, and PIISPs.
PSU	Payment Service User. Natural or legal person making use of a payment service as a payee, payer or both.
AISP	Account Information Service Provider. Provides account information services as an online service with consolidated information on one or more payment accounts held by a payment service user with one or more payment service provider(s).
PISP	Payment Initiation Service Provider. Provides an online service to initiate a payment order at the request of the payment service user with respect to a payment account held at another payment service provider.
PIISP	Payment Issuer Instrument Service Provider. Provides information about the funds availability of payment transactions based on the payment cards. The related services supplied can be identified as CAF/FCS (Confirmation on the Availability of Funds Service).
SCA	Strong Customer Authentication. Authentication based on the use of two or more elements designed in such a way as to protect the confidentiality of the authentication data.
XS2A	Access to Account. The provision of secure access to accounts operated by ASPSPs using APIs.
eIDAS	Electronic Identification, Authentication and trust Services. A set of standards for electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the European Single Market.
QSEAL	Qualified Electronic Seal Certificate is a qualified digital certificate under the trust services defined in the eIDAS Regulation.
PSD2	The Second Revised Payment Services Directive. The directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union which requires financial institutions within the European Economic Area to provide access to their customers' accounts (XS2A), to Third Party Providers to provide account information and payment initiation services.

Registration

The process of TPP registration is made via an API request to TPP Register endpoint. In order to access Provider Sandbox you need to use eIDAS QSEAL test certificate.

Access to production environment is allowed only with production QSEAL certificates. It is possible to add a QSEAL certificate via API request to TPP Certficate endpoint.

After adding a certificate, the registered TPP will have assigned a set of scopes based on the provided certificate.

I.e. AISP certificate will result in account, transactions, kyc scopes, while a PISP certificate will result in payments, funds_availability scopes. The available scopes can be seen when creating an TPP Application.

Registration Endpoints

Endpoint	Verb	Purpose
/v1/tpp/certificates	POST	Used for adding certificate. After action, you will receive a letter of confirmation on your representative email.
/v1/tpp/register	POST	Used for registration in Salt Edge PSD2 Compliance Dashboard. After registration, you will receive a letter of confirmation on your representative email.

For more details, please access TPP Registration page: https://openbanking.bov.com/docs/berlingroup/bov_mt/certificates

Examples of BerlinGroup Headers

{ "X-Request-ID": "5b2d13ae-f7e8-4088-b98f-0acf05ac3303", "Digest": "SHA-256=yL4tyKu3UC0isKZgiGYDu1guWcLIJyZkLQUb1e35zYw=", "Date": "Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:03:06 GMT", "TPP-Signature-Certificate": "LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUS ... lGSUNBVEUtLS0tLQo=", "Signature": "Signature keyId=\"SN=0,DN=/organizationIdentifier=TppSaltTest000/CN=certSIGNSALTTEST Web CA/O=SaltTest/C=RO\",algorithm=\"rsa-sha256\",headers=\"x-request-id digest date\",signature=\"ODP6GRM+IjqAKi5z+iea93YR3Qox5dp13r7GjQdHuJOxXEMs3nWy8mKA1CuKKB7CyZONgWAqi6Zev4gQ1Zs7AjGZ4TNxrK1OtT7f8ICtAPtmPyoP4yiDqZLcikcprrG2DRfIu5DS2QWy/wg1EYOiIi+mQEMlDYm5fWMOa6wog5+OL369t/ZV3T+g1ZIdbbK9CVKwQQJ4TiCpLgCvEa8s8Nw4P9doOYCUyHkYWBWfYRkW0wWnnhgGAzT4L3CXi+vWXHWbvENrUDAhcEZ3YCHEljWF2r+xroaT5GVhIob9GspH+W5bX9+XySm1d6aZyf5T6K00O2pAtOS1BnEUwyLDWg==\"", "Signature keyId": "SN=0,DN=/organizationIdentifier=TppSaltTest000/CN=certSIGNSALTTEST Web CA/O=SaltTest/C=RO\"", "Algorithm": "rsa-sha256", "Headers": "x-request-id digest date", "Signature": "LweOMKvt2qun5u7Thz3yrohkt ... lGSUNBVEUtLS0tLo==", "SIGNING_HEADERS": "x-request-id: 7e0cece5-72e3-4109-8a72-451d73d1ac21\ndigest: SHA-256=JZGKETBzhD+QcSaXB9bFhKrcNL0+wCXjuDuhHNdJuVY=\ndate: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:03:32 GMT" }

Registration BerlinGroup Headers

Instruction to create BerlinGroup Signature

To register as a TPP, the first thing you must do is get a valid EIDAS certificate.

The required headers for this call are:

• X-Request-ID: Is a unique id for your call, e.g. a GUID.
  X-Request-ID => SecureRandom.uuid


• Digest: Is a hashed and encoded value of the body of the API call.
  Digest => "SHA-256=" + Digest::SHA256.base64digest(YOUR_REQUEST_BODY)


• Date: Is just the date of the call, in the following format: „Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:16:59 GMT“
  Date => Time.now.httpdate


• TPP-Signature-Certificate: Is the cert used to sign the message.
  TPP-Signature-Certificate => Base64.strict_encode64(CERTIFICATE_PEM)


• Signature: Is the signed value of the message, and is constructed in the following way.
  Signature => "Signature keyId=" "SN=" + certificate.serial,"DN=" + certificate.issuer", "algorithm" = "rsa-sha256", "headers" = "x-request-id digest date", "signature" = Base64(RSA-SHA256(signing string))
  • Signature keyId: Is combinated string of Certificate Serial Number and Certificate Issuer. Certificate serial number must be in decimal notation.
    Signature keyId => "SN=" + (CERTIFICATE_SERIAL),"DN=" + (CERTIFICATE_ISSUER)"
  
  
  • Algorithm: Is SHA256 algorithm.
    Algorithm => "rsa-sha256"
  
  
  • Headers: Selected required headers.
    Headers => "x-request-id digest date"
  
  
  • Signature: Is Base64 encoded string.
    Signature => Base64.strict_encode64(PRIVATE_KEY.sign("RSA-SHA256", SIGNING_HEADERS))
    
    SIGNING_HEADERS: Is required headers with values. Where `\n` is used as headers delimiter.
    SIGNING_HEADERS => "x-request-id: 5b2d13ae-f7e8-4088-b98f-0acf05ac3303\n" + "digest: SHA-256=yL4tyKu3UC0isKZgiGYDu1guWcLIJyZkLQUb1e35zYw=\n" + "date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:03:06 GMT"
    
  
  

API Endpoints

The table below describes the list of all API endpoints available at Salt Edge PSD2 Compliance Solution. The endpoints are based on NextGenPSD2 Framework version 1.3.6. also known as BerlinGroup Standard. BerlinGroup endpoints are name-spaced after selected provider_code. Ex: for Bank of Valletta, the endpoints will start with /bov_mt/api...

Endpoint	Verb	Purpose
/v1/accounts/:account_id/balances	GET	Reads account data from a given account addressed by account_id.
/v1/accounts	GET	Read the identifiers of the available payment account together with booking balance information, depending on the consent granted. It is assumed that a consent of the PSU to this access is already given and stored on the ASPSP system. The addressed list of accounts depends on the PSU ID and the stored consent addressed by consentId. Returns all identifiers of the accounts, to which an account access has been granted to through the /consents endpoint by the PSU. In addition, relevant information about the accounts and hyperlinks to corresponding account information resources are provided if a related consent has been already granted. Remark: Note that the /consents endpoint optionally offers to grant an access on all available payment accounts of a PSU. In this case, this endpoint will deliver the information about all available payment accounts of the PSU at this ASPSP.
/v1/accounts/refresh	POST	This endpoint is responsible for starting the process of refreshing account information data on Salt Edge PSD2 Compliance Solution side. Due to asynchronous nature of this action, TPP has to poll the status of this process using Accounts RefreshStatus endpoint.
/v1/accounts/refresh/status	GET	This endpoint is responsible for returning the current status of fetching account information process.
/v1/accounts/:account_id	GET	Reads details about an account, with balances where required. It is assumed that a consent of the PSU to this access is already given and stored on the ASPSP system. The addressed details of this account depends on the stored consent addressed by consentId.
/v1/accounts/:account_id/transactions/:transaction_id	GET	Reads transaction data from a given account and transaction addressed by account_id and transaction-id.
/v1/accounts/:account_id/transactions	GET	Read transaction reports or transaction lists of a given account addressed by account_id, depending on the steering parameter bookingStatus together with balances.
/v1/aspsps/product_templates	GET	Used by TPP for obtaining the list of payment products which support NextGenPSD2 standard.
/v1/consents/:consent_id/authorisations/:authorisation_id	GET	This method returns the SCA status of a consent initiation's authorisation subresource.
/v1/consents	POST	This method creates a consent resource, defining access rights to dedicated accounts of a given PSU-ID. These accounts are addressed explicitly in the method as parameters as a core function.
/v1/consents/:consent_id	DELETE	This method deletes a consent.
/v1/consents/:consent_id	GET	Returns the content of an account information consent object. This returns the data for the TPP especially in cases, where the consent was directly managed between ASPSP and PSU e.g. in a redirect SCA Approach.
/v1/consents/:consent_id/status	GET	Read the status of an account information consent resource.
/v1/funds-confirmations	POST	Checks whether a specific amount is available at point of time of the request on an account addressed by IBAN or other available identifiers.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id/authorisations/:authorisation_id	GET	This method returns the SCA status of a consent initiation's authorisation subresource.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id/cancellation-authorisations	GET	Will deliver an array of resource identifications to all generated cancellation authorisation subresources.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id/cancellation-authorisations/:authorisation_id	GET	This method returns the SCA status of a payment cancellation's authorisation subresource.
/v1/payments/:payment_product	POST	This method is used to instruct Salt Edge PSD2 Compliance Solution to initialize the payment creation.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id	DELETE	It initiates the cancellation of a payment order. Depending on the payment-product and the ASPSP's implementation, this TPP call might be sufficient to cancel a payment.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id	GET	This method returns payment data.
/v1/payments/:payment_product/:payment_id/status	GET	This method returns payment status.

Scopes Definition

Type	Description
payments	grants TPP right to initiate payment orders on behalf of Customer
accounts	grants TPP access to Customer's accounts data
transactions	grants TPP access to transactions which belong to Customer's account
funds_availability	grants TPP right to check availability of funds under specific account which belongs to Customer

During any request or flow originating either on TPP or Salt Edge PSD2 Compliance side, a number of errors may appear. In order to standardize errors while still giving some degree of freedom in explaining an error callback, parameters should include both error_text and error_code. Error message serves the purpose of communicating the issue to the Customer, whereas error class should be used by TPPs in order to be able to handle various scenarios.

Contents of the error_code are entirely up to the Provider, they may even be localized. However, values sent within error_text parameter should be from the standardized list. This list may and will be extended over time.

Class	Code	Description
BadRequest	400	Given value is invalid.
CountryNameInvalid	400	Country doesn't exist or is invalid. Expected alpha 2 ISO3166 format.
ServiceInvalid	400	Something went wrong on Provider(ASPSP) side.
FormatError	400	Invalid input. More info in error_message
ConsentInvalid	401	The consent was created by this TPP but is not valid for the addressed service/resource.
ConsentUnknown	401	The Consent-ID cannot be matched by the ASPSP relative to the TPP.
CertificateMissing	401	This request cannot be performed without Certificate header.
CertificateInvalid	401	Given certificate is invalid.
SignatureMalformed	401	Given signature is malformed.
SignatureMissing	401	This request cannot be performed without Signature header.
SignatureInvalid	401	Given signature is invalid.
ConsentExpired	401	The consent was created by this TPP but has expired and needs to be renewed.
AccessDenied	403	Action you want to perform is not allowed. More in error_message
ProductInvalid	403	The payment product is not supported by the addressed service/resource.
ResourceUnknown	404	The addressed resource is unknown relative to the TPP.
ProductUnknown	404	The payment product wasn't found.
CancellationInvalid	405	The addressed payment is not cancellable e.g. due to cut off time passed or legal constraints.
AccessExceeded	429	Exceeded the number of requests for this action.