API Information

Trade Finance - Buyer Loans

  • Version: v3 
  • Protocol: HTTPS
  • URL Pre-Prod Test (UAT): Please speak to your Client Integration contact
  • URL Production: Please speak to your Client Integration contact

Description

In this document, you'll find the steps your organization needs to take to use our API services. Also in this guide are details of request and response messages used to support your organization’s integration.

The intended audience for this document are Technical Architects, Development Engineers, Test Engineers, and Operation & Maintenance Engineers involved in development and support of your organization’s integration.

Setting up our API Services is best completed with the assistance of your organization’s IT team, or someone with experience and knowledge of application programming interfaces. This should include experience with - JSON payloads and security and public key infrastructure (PKI).


Quick Start Guide:

Click on the Left Menu to explore the following topics:

Topics This page will help you to: References
API Specification
  1. Description of API headers, request and response body
Securing a Connection
  1. Understand the steps required to secure and encrypt a connection with HSBC
  2. View the fields to be provided in the JWT header and payload
  3. See code examples of how to generate the required JSON Web Token (JWT)
Making an API Request
  1. Prepare an API request payload and perform payload encryption
  2. Generate and sign a client token (JWT)
  3. Steps required to process a response
Response Codes and Formats
  1. Understand the response code
  2. How to perform troubleshooting
Sandbox Access
  1. Perform Testing on Sandbox

Coming soon.*

*The sandbox environment for the latest version is not available yet. However, you may try out earlier version.


Version History

Change log and release history:

Version Release Date Status Description
v1 December 2021 To be deprecate TradePay - First Release
v3 June 2024 Live JSON Structure Refinement according to latest Bank Standard.

 

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