News
BPE becomes Louvre Banque Privée - Technical update needed
13th September, 2023
BPE becomes Louvre Banque Privée, consequently the domain name evolves as well as the associated API's.
These changes will be effective from September 13th, 2023. If you use the BPE APIs, please make the following updates :
Current URLs :
- BPE : https://api-openbanking.bpe.fr
- BPE sandbox : https://api-sandbox.bpe.fr
Target URLs :
- Louvre Banque Privée : https://api-openbanking.louvrebanqueprivee.fr
- Louvre Banque Privée sandbox : https://api-sandbox.louvrebanqueprivee.fr
The BPE URLs will remain functional for 3 months from today until the BPE domain is closed.
News about this developer portal
11th September, 2023
From today, it is no longer possible to create devapps from this developer portal.
You will have to use our new developer portal GetArkea.
As a reminder, this devportal will be definitely closed on November 22th, 2023.
Technical update on 17th and 24th September, 2023
28th August5th September, 2023
For reasons of upgrading our databases, authentication will be unavailable on 17th and 24th september, 2023 from 8 am to 9 am.
This concerns both our websites and mobile apps.
This database upgrade will also make our PSD2 payment API unavailable.
Thanks in advance for your understanding. Feel free to contact us if you have any question.
Our new developer portal has arrived
22nd August, 2023
We hope you enjoy using our developer portal. We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new distribution site for our APIs, offering you an even more pleasant and intuitive user experience.
Find out more about our new API portal GetArkea.
We sent you an email today to explain how to proceed to use this new portal.
From September 11th, 2023, it will no longer be allowed to create devapps from this devportal. You will have to use our new portal GetArkea.
Within 3 months, this devportal will no longer be accessible.
PSD2 authentication unavailable August 13th, 2023
08th August, 2023
For reasons of maintenance on one of our services, DSP2 authentication will be unavailable on 13/08/2023 from 6am to 7am.
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Technical update on September 10th, 2023
13th July, 2023
An important technical update improving our infrastructures is scheduled for September 10th, 2023.
It will involve the unavailability of some of our services from 6:10 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. :
Unavailability of Instant Payment,
Unavailability of the Fortuneo web site and mobile application,
Unavailability of PRO and PART sites and mobile applications (CMB, CMSO, ABEI, ABS, ABP, LBP, AZB, AXA).
CMB and CMSO authentication unavailable during a few minutes on July 9th, 2023
15th June, 2023
For reasons of maintenance of our databases servers, authentication will be unavailable on both mobile and web sites for CMB and CMSO on July 9th, 2023 for a maximum period of 15 minutes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m...
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Payment API and authentication unavailable during a few minutes on June 18th, 2023
15th June, 2023
For reasons of maintenance of our databases servers, our payment API will be unavailable on June 18, 2023 for a maximum period of 15 minutes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m..
For the same reason, authentication will be unavailable on both mobile and web sites for CMB and CMSO on June 18th, 2023 for a maximum period of 15 minutes between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m...
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Information on the SCA deadline
25th April, 2023
For your information :
Currently a strong authentication is required every 90 days for the customer to agree to the continuity of service. On July 25, 2023, this period will be 180 days. I can confirm that there will be no impact on your level and no break in service.
Technical incident online banking service
29th March, 2023
An incident is currently in progress on the online banking service of Arkéa entities. You will be kept informed of its resolution.
The incident is resolved and the Remote Banking service is restored.
Modification of the Sandbox URL
7th March, 2023
We made some url modifications for our sandbox part in the "Step1 - Retrieve the authorization code" section.
https://api.arkea.com/psd2-psu-sandbox/authorize...
becomes
https://api-public.arkea.com/psd2-psu-sandbox/authorize...
AIS / PIS course not possible at Axa Bank
15th February, 2023
We are facing an unavailability on Axa Bank on the AIS / PIS routes. We are doing our best to restore the service.
Incidents references : TCK3693428/TCK3719156
Affected client : Axa Banque
Incident start date/time : 15/02/2022 - 15h30
Incident end date/time : -
Description / Impact(s):
AIS / PIS course not possible at Axa Bank
=> issue solved on 17-02-2023 17:52
Aumax Pour Moi : All good things come to an end
20th December, 202216th January, 2023
Services of "Aumax Pour Moi" will shut down on January 22nd at midnight 25th at 08:30.
Be aware that APIs will not be available anymore at the same time.
Aumax Pour Moi PSD2 Certificate
20th December, 2022
Due to a technical anomaly, we are forced to switch eiDAS certificates to non-eiDAS X509 certificates.
If you control the type of certificate during your MTLS calls, you may be impacted. We therefore recommend you to apply a standard X509 check and to disable the eiDAS checks.
We are aware of the inconvenience this may cause you given the short notice, and we apologize for it.
Technical incident online banking service
07th Decembre, 2022
An incident is currently in progress on the online banking service of Arkéa entities except Fortunéo. You will be kept informed of its resolution.
The incident is resolved and the Remote Banking service is restored.
Technical delivery on 12th of December 2022
06th Decembre, 2022
On 12th of December 2022, a technical delivery concerning our QTSP's repository will take place at noon. A very brief unavailability of our services (APIs and Fallback interface) might be observed for our banks.
The 1.4.1 version decommissioning
05th Septembre, 2022
The 1.4.1 version is decommissioned, the 1.4.2 is the default one means that you do not have to specify it in your request.
New version - July 2022
13th July, 2022
We are pleased to inform you that in 13 July 2022, this new release does not involve any non-backward-compatible change.
PISP - You can now initiate currency transfers in the SEPA zone and outside the SEPA zone (any currency) for a TPP on the 1.4.2.18 version
- International (Domestic payments in non-euro currency
- International payments
- International Scheduled (with requestedExecutionDate) are also allowed
International Payments are allowed on the following entities :
Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne,
CMSO, ABP, ABEI, BPE, ABS, AXA Banque
The default version : 1.4.2
16th February, 2022
Arkea PSD2 certificates
09th September, 2021
Due to a technical anomaly, we are forced to temporarily switch eiDAS certificates to non-eiDAS X509 certificates.
Depending on the services concerned, the deadlines requiring a change are as follows:
https://api-openbanking.arkea-
https://api-openbanking.
https://api-openbanking.arkea-
https://api-openbanking.bpe.fr 2021-09-10: 13:00
https://api-openbanking.
https://api-openbanking.cmb.fr 2021-09-16: 13:00
https://api-openbanking.cmso.
If you control the type of certificate during your MTLS calls, you may be impacted. We therefore recommend that you apply a standard X509 check and deactivate the eiDAS checks.
The time to return to a normal situation allowing the use of eiDAS certificates is at least 3 weeks.
We are aware of the inconvenience this may cause you given the short notice, and we apologize for it.
Version 07 july 2021 New version 1.4.2
07th July, 2021
For our latest version, we do now respect the 1.4.2.18 STET model. The following list give you the details of the changes for this new version.
This new release 1.4.2.18 involve the following backwards-compatibles changes with our latest 1.4.1.3 version :
- PISP : Adding of a new object, equivalent amount for international payments
- PISP : Adding an optional InstructionForCreditorAgent structure for international payments
- PISP : Adding an optional UltimateDebtor structure for international payments
- PISP : Allow the specification of an intermediary agent for international payments
- PISP/Fix : The field paymentTypeInformation.serviceLevel is not mandatory anymore
- PISP/Fix : We have fixed a wrong behavior on the schemeName field
This new release 1.4.2 involve the following nonbackwards-compatibles changes with our latest 1.4.1 version :
- AISP : You can now specify wich version you want to use (1.4.1 or 1.4.2)
- AISP : We set amount type to number
- AISP : The Field transactionDate is now a datetime
- AISP : There is new values for PsuStatus and "Co-account Holder" is replaced by "Account Co-holder"
- PISP : You can now specify wich version you want to use (1.4.1 or 1.4.2)
- PISP : For version 1.4.2, you should now respect the OAUTH2 Simple REDIRECT Approach
- PISP : The date-time formats is now restricted to date-time information (we do not accept anymore date-time information without time)
- PISP : The remittance structured object has evolved
- PISP : We have modified the Address structure
- PISP : Purpose object is now at instruction level
- PISP : UltimateCreditor object is not dusplicated anymore
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PISP : The amount type are now number
- PISP : We have added an ACTC value for transaction status
- PISP : We have added a new payment/transaction status for cancellation
- PISP : We have added a precision on the PUT Payment-request when unauthorized modifications are posted
We will continue to support 1.4.1 version
New version - 08 April 2021
08th April, 2021
This new release does not involve any non-backwards-compatibles changes.
- AISP - You can now get the information about the card used for a transaction on the deferred debit operations (except for Fortuneo).
- This information is displayed on a new field "additionalTransactionInformation", this is an add-on from STET 1.4.2 into the version STET 1.4.1
- Please refer to the documentation for more information and details about the format.
- This new information will be available on Fortuneo transactions from mid-April 2021
Maintenance of developer.arkea.com website
22nd September, 2020
The website developer.arkea.com will be unavailaible the 28th of September from 2pm Paris time for few minutes due to a maintenance operation.
New version - 08 july 2020
08th July, 2020
This new release does not involve any non-backwards-compatibles changes.
- PISP - You can now interact with the professional bank accounts (except for ABEI)
- CBPII - You can now interact with the professional bank accounts (except for ABEI)
- AISP - You can now interact with the professional bank accounts (except for ABEI)
- AISP - We've added in the sandbox cases for our professional bank accounts
- AISP - You can now get the name of the owner of a beneficiaries in a details field (usefull when a psu manage several spaces of accounts)
- AISP - We've adjusted the behavior of the querry parameters dateFrom and dateTo on a search of transactions
Use cases with professional accounts available in Sandbox
24th June, 2020
You were waiting for them : personae with professional accounts are now available in Sandbox !
Payment tip : How to easily recover debtor's IBAN
23rd June, 2020
During a payment request, you can now recover debtor's IBAN : once the PSU has selected the debit account in the validation process, execute a GET /payment-requests/{paymentRequestResourceId}. You will retrieve it into debtorAccount field.
New web site for Allianz Banque
10th June, 2020
We will sooon open a new website for Allianz Banque’s customers.
You will be able to integrate this new website from July, 2020. The migration between current website and new website for all customers will be performed on September, 2020. From this date, the current website will be no more available.
Feel free to ask us for the new documentation by using the contact form from the beginning of July.
SCA deployment
10th June, 2020
To allow you to adapt your environments, here are the next dates for SCA deployment :
- AZB : june, 2020,
- ABS : july, 2020,
- CMB : little by little from september to october, 2020.
The other banks hosted by Arkéa have already been deployed.
Continuity of our services
27th March, 2020
Hello,
please be aware that, in this unprecedented period, linked to the spreading of COVID-19, we are making every effort to ensure the best possible continuity of our services and to respond to your requests as quickly as possible.
We count on your understanding.
We hope that in this particular period, you and your loved ones are keeping safe and healthy.
Yours sincerely.
Fortuneo : SCA in the Fallback mechanism
10th March, 2020
From march 11, 2020, it will be mandatory to use SCA in the Fallback mechanism of Fortuneo.
Feel free to ask for help by using the contact form.
New authentication on fallback from 17 February 2020
31st January, 2020
We are currently modifying the authentication mode for the fallback interface of CMB, CMSO, ABEI, ABP and BPE. The estimated date of moving to production for this modification is 17 February 2020. From this date, the old way of authenticating will stay available during one month to let you take into account this evolution. So, we ask you to migrate to the new authentication mode before 17 of March 2020.
Ask for the new fallback's documentation !
Do not hesitate to contact us in case of trouble.
Thanks in advance.
Ability to test Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) in Fallback mechanism
20th December, 2019
It is now possible to activate SCA on demand in the Fallback mechanism of the following entities :
- Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne,
- CMSO, ABP, ABEI, BPE,
- ABS/AZB : available on 21st of january.
Feel free to ask for the documentation by using the contact form.
Devapps for CMMC
19th December, 2019
From the 1st of january 2020, Crédit Mutuel du Massif Central will no longer be managed by Credit Mutuel Arkea teams but by Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale (https://www.
The consequence is that the application's contexts that you have created on our developer portal will be removed. The URLs api-openbanking.cmmc.fr
The entry into force of the PSD2
14th September, 2019
Access to the production environment is now open to TPPs (PSD2 licensed players) for the personal bank accounts using our APIs.
For business accounts, access is possible using our fallback mechanism described here.
The fallback mechanism is open to TPPs for personal and business bank accounts. To use the fallback mechanism, a creation of a developer application for each bank is required.
Below you will find a summary table of available bank via APIs or fallback mechanism :
| Bank | Personal account | Business account |
|---|---|---|
| Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne | API + Fallback | Fallback |
| Crédit Mutuel du Massif Central | API + Fallback | Fallback |
| Crédit Mutuel du Sud Ouest | API + Fallback | Fallback |
| Arkéa Banque Privée | API + Fallback | Fallback |
| Arkéa Banque Entreprises & Institutionnels | Not applicable | Fallback |
| Arkéa Banking Services | Not applicable | Fallback |
| Fortuneo | API + Fallback | Not applicable |
| MAX | API + Fallback | Not applicable |
| BPE | API + Fallback | Fallback |
| Allianz Banque | API + Fallback | Fallback |
Access to the production environment
11th September, 2019
Access to the production environment will be open from the 11th of September for the personal bank accounts using our APIs. Please consult the check list of prerequisites to use the APIs to be sure you are ready.
For business accounts, access is possible using our fallback mechanism described here
The fallback mechanism is part of the production environment and will also be open from the 11th of September for personal and business bank accounts. In accordance with the ACPR decisions, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) will not be implemented on this contingency mode. To use the fallback mechanism, a creation of a developer application for each bank is required (a complete check list of the prerequisites to use fallback is available in FAQ).
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) will be deployed gradually on our banks websites. This will not impact PSD2 access for nominal and contingency modes until further implementation.