API overview

Payment Initiation

Integrate secure payment initiation into your application and launch your business potential.


Key features

Connect Customers

Leverage HSBC customer relationships to develop a customer value payment ecosystem in your own banking applications.

Accelerate Innovation

Develop applications that use the Open Banking payment APIs that are reshaping the financial services industry.

Secure

Initiate payments via a secure connection incorporating the latest regulatory standards in electronic data exchange.


Which brands are supported?

This API enables you to connect to customers of the following HSBC brands:

  • HSBC Bahrain Premier
  • HSBC Bahrain Advance 
  • HSBC Bahrain Personal Banking

How to get started

  • Create an account on develop.hsbc.
  • Read our documentation on how to use the our API services and secure your connection with the right electronic certificate.
  • Access our Sandbox to test your application.
  • Once you’ve registered with the Central Bank of Bahrain, you can use our live API services.
  • Onboard your customers and take off ... the sky is the limit...
     

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