Newsroom
Welcome to the Newsroom. Here you can find all news and announcements related to the Unicredit API ecosystem.
07 May 2020
New feature released
We are happy to inform you that a new Sca Status management has been released on Sandbox for Germany.
Starting with May 07th, the values provided when you are getting the scaStatus will be:
| SCA Status | Description |
| received | Confirms the creation of authorisations resource |
| started | Advise that the PSU completed the first-factor authentication (only Embedded Approach) |
| scaMethodSelected | Advise that the PSU completed the authentication (only Redirect Approach) |
| finalised | The consent/payment have been finalized |
We want to inform you, that the new Sca status management will be delivered for real APIs for Germany at the end of July.
05 May 2020
Important Information
Due to planned maintenance activities instant payment functionality is not available from May, 8 07:00 p.m. CEST until May 9, 2020 11:00 a.m. CEST for our production APIs for UniCredit Bank Austria AG.
Other APIs, countries, the Developer Portal and the Sandbox APIs will not be affected. There are no changes on the APIs or documentation because of these activities.
24 April 2020
Important Information
Due to planned maintenance activities our production APIs for UniCredit SpA and buddybank (Italy) may temporarily be unavailable (Payment/Consent Authorization flow) on April, 25th from 2:00 CEST to 5:00 CEST.
Other countries, the Developer Portal and the Sandbox APIs will not be affected. There are no changes on the APIs or documentation because of these activities.
23 April 2020
New feature released: Instant Payments for UniCredit Bank Austria
We are happy to inform about further improvements of our X2A API for UniCredit Bank Austria:
Starting April 22nd 18:30, Instant Payments outgoing will be opened to all UniCredit Bank Austria customers for Business Net and 24You, hence also the initiation of Instant Payments will be offered via X2A API for UniCredit Bank Austria.
17 April 2020
Important Information
We want to remind you again to migrate to Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 version 1.3.4.
We will finally decommission the real APIs for Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 version 1.1 by end of April 2020. Therefore we kindly ask you to speed up your migration activities to ensure your business continuity.
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25 March 2020
New feature released: Account Owner Name
he new attribute “ownerName”, which specifies the owner name of a certain account, will be provided as additional information in the GET /hydrogen/v1/accounts/{account-id} call.
The attribute will be released for Italy (Retail go-live on 25.03, Corporate go-live on 06.04), Austria (24YOU/BUSINESSNET go-live on 25.03, UCEBANKINGGLOBAL go-live on 06.04), Germany (HVB_ONLINEBANKING go-live on 16.04, UCEBANKINGGLOBAL/UCEBANKINGGLOBAL_UK go-live on 06.04), Slovenia (Retail go-live on 07.04, Corporate go-live on 27.07), Romania (Retail go-live on 07.04, Corporate go-live on 27.07), Bulgaria (Retail go-live on 07.04, Corporate go-live on 27.07), Croatia (Retail go-live on 07.04, Corporate go-live on 27.07) and Hungary (Retail go-live on 07.04, Corporate go-live on 27.07)
25 March 2020
New feature released: Pending Payments
The new structure “pending”, which specifies the list of pending payments of a certain account, will be provided as additional structure in the GET /hydrogen/v1/accounts/{account-id}/transactions call setting the query parameter “bookingStatus” equals to “pending” or “both”.
The attribute will be released for Austria (go-live on 06.04)
25 March 2020
New feature released: Standing Orders
The new structure “information”, which specifies the list of standing orders of a certain account, will be provided as additional structure in the GET /hydrogen/v1/accounts/{account-id}/transactions call setting the query parameter “bookingStatus” equals to “information”.
The attribute will be released for Austria (24YOU go-live on 25.03) and Germany (HVB_ONLINEBANKING go-live on 16.04)
14 September 2019
Important Information
Dear Third Party Provider,
UniCredit Group is happy to announce that we have received from the National Competent Authorities the exemption from providing a fallback mechanism for:
- Italy for UniCredit SpA
- Croatia for Zagrebacka banka d.d.
- Hungary for UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRT.
- Slovenia for UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d.
We are very proud of this achievement as it demonstrates our commitment to guarantee to our customers the same level of service on the dedicated interface (API) as on our own channels.
In case of questions or feedback you would like to give us feel free to send us an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
14 June 2019
Important Information
Dear Third Party Provider,
UniCredit Group is glad to announce that UniCredit Bank Austria and the following Eastern European banks are also live with their production APIs based on the Berlin Group guidelines:
- UniCredit Bulbank AD - Bulgaria
- UniCredit Bank S.A. - Romania
- UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d. - Slovenia
- UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRT. - Hungary
- Zagrebacka banka d.d. - Croatia
Please remind that our sandbox is available for testing already since March 14th 2019 as well as the live APIs for our hubs in Germany and Italy since May 31st 2019.
UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia will continue to provide dedicated interfaces, following their local standards.
Developer portal is available at https://developer.unicredit.eu and if you want to get help with a general inquiry, or if you're looking for further information, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
03 June 2019
Important Information
Dear Third Party Provider,
UniCredit Group is proud to announce that you can now consume our production APIs, based on the Berlin Group guidelines, for the delivery of your services to customers with online accounts in:
- UniCredit SpA - Italy
- Buddy Bank - Italy
- UniCredit Bank AG - Germany
While you can continue testing in the Sandbox available since the 14th of March 2019, from May 31 we are also providing live APIs for our hubs in Germany and Italy and Austria.
- Austria and the other UCG banks in the Eastern European area will follow shortly:
- UniCredit Bulbank AD - Bulgaria
- UniCredit Bank S.A. - Romania
- UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d. - Slovenia
- UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRT. - Hungary
- Zagrebacka banka d.d. - Croatia
UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia will continue to provide dedicated interfaces, following their local standards.
Developer portal is available at https://developer.unicredit.eu and iIf you want to get help with a general inquiry, or if you're looking for further information, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
14 March 2019
Important Information
Dear Third Party Provider,
UniCredit Group is proud to announce that since the 14th March we are providing a pan-european dedicated interface to access online accounts in compliance with the PSD2. You can now consume our APIs, based on the Berlin Group guidelines, to deliver value added services for our customers with online accounts in:
- UniCredit SpA - Italy
- UniCredit Bank AG - Germany
- UniCredit Bank Austria - Austria
- UniCredit Bulbank AD - Bulgaria
- UniCredit Bank S.A. - Romania
- UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d. - Slovenia
- UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRT. - Hungary
- Zagrebacka banka d.d. - Croatia
- buddybank - Italy
While UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia are providing dedicated interfaces following the local standards.
Join our developer portal at developer.unicredit.eu and start developing your application!
If you want to get help with a general inquiry, or if you're looking for further information, please send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.