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22 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: Maintenance activities 27./28.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities our production APIs, UniCredit Bank Austria PSD2 API redirect, 24You Internetbanking and MobileBanking will not be available between Monday, 27.03.2023 7:00 p.m. CET – Tuesday 28.03.2023 5:00 a.m. CET.

Delivery of MobileTAN Push messages is also not possible during that time window.

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.

21 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: new App2App redirect

We are pleased to inform you that the App2App redirect service for the UniCredit Bank Austria Mobile Banking Apps will be deployed on 27.3.2023.

This development is using the SCA Decoupled flow.

Kindly notice that the new App2App redirect service is only available for the Mobile Banking App and BusinessNet App which will be available to Bank Austria customers in Android and Apple App stores by middle of April 2023.

20 March 2023

UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy): Maintenance activities on PIS APIs 23.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities PSD2 Payment Initiation Service (PIS) APIs for UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) will temporarily be not available for about 15 minutes on Thursday, 23.03.2023 between 2:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET.

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.

20 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt.: Maintenance activities 24.03.2023 to 27.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities, redirection for PSD2 production API consent & payment authorization to SpectraNet system of UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt. will be unavailable between Friday, 24.03.2023 8:00 p.m. CET – Monday, 27.03.2023 2:00 a.m. CET.

API calls for existing consents & payments, 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.

17 March 2023

UniCredit S.p.A, Bank Austria AG and UniCredit Bank AG (Hypovereinsbank) – update new T2-CBPR+ functionality

We want to inform that with the release on 17.3.2023 the new T2-CBPR+ functionality (additional information related to the ultimate debtor and ultimate creditor objects, in the new dedicated fields "ultimateDebtorExt" and "ultimateCreditorExt”) for UniCredit S.p.A, Bank Austria AG and UniCredit Bank AG (Hypovereinsbank), already available in Sandbox Environment since 22.07.2022, will become available in Real API environment.

Important note:

Until the final release of the additional information related to the ultimate debtor and ultimate creditor in UniCredit S.p.A, Bank Austria AG and UniCredit Bank AG (Hypovereinsbank) channel frontends (planned in Q2-2023), any provided ultimate debtor and ultimate creditor data element in a cross-border-credit-transfers payment initiation cannot be processed and will be truncated.

16 March 2023

Maintenance activities for Corporate Customers 18.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities, Production APIs related to Corporate Customers using Corporate Portal for UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), Zagrebačka banka d.d. (Croatia), UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt., UniCredit Bank Romania and UniCredit Bank CZ Rep. and SK will be unavailable on Saturday, 18.03.2023 between 6:00 a.m. CET – 5:00 p.m. CET.

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.

14 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: new Funds-Check functionality

We are pleased to inform you that the Real Funds-Check functionality for the UniCredit Bank Austria will be deployed on 17.3.2023.

This development will return a new Boolean field “fundsAvailable” with the status “true” or “false”.

In view of this new development, we are releasing the related Real API environment for UniCredit Bank Austria.

Kindly notice that the new Funds-Check service is only available for the PSU-ID-Type 24YOU and BusinessNet for Online banking channel, on Mobile Apps it will be available with the App2App Redirect release planned for 27.3.2023.

14 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: UPDATED information: App2App redirect release shifted to 27.03.2023

We want to update the information published on 03.03.2023 that the App2App Redirect service for the UniCredit Bank Austria Mobile Banking Apps will be deployed on 27.03.2023. This development is using the SCA Decoupled flow available for the Bank Austria Mobile Banking App and BusinessNet App.

We kindly ask to check and update your internal system configuration in order to guarantee correct SCA redirect and decoupled processes as of 28.03.2023:

• TPP-Redirect-Preferred => set to “true” will use the REDIRECT SCA method to Internetbanking of supported PSU-ID-Types
• TPP-Redirect-Preferred => set to “false” will use the DECOUPLED SCA method for App2App Redirect of supported PSU-ID-Types (24YOU = MobileBanking App and BUSINESSNET = BusinessNet App).
• TPP-Redirect-Preferred missing: The default value when the header is not present is "false".

Please be aware that an incorrect TPP backend setting can lead to rejected payments/consents.

10 March 2023

UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy):  technical interventions on Foreign Payments

In order to comply with regulatory adjustments required by ECB, starting from Wednesday, 15.03.2023 5:00 p.m. CET our production APIs related to UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) for payment products “cross-border-credit-transfers” and  “target-2-payments” may not be available due to technical interventions. Our direct channels are impacted as well. The function will be fully available again from the morning of Saturday, March 18th.

08 March 2023

Maintenance activities 11./12.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities, our production PSD2 APIs related to

• UniCredit Bank Austria AG, UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) and buddybank (Italy) may experience up to 60 minutes of unavailability on Saturday, 11.03.2023 between 2:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET. Delivery of MobileTAN Push messages is also not possible during that time window.
• Payment Initiation Service (PIS) for UniCredit Bank Austria AG, UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), buddybank (Italy) and UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) will be unavailable for up to 2 hours on Saturday, 11.03.2023 between 1:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET.
• Corporate Customers using Corporate Portal for UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), Zagrebačka banka d.d. (Croatia), UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt., UniCredit Bank Romania and UniCredit Bank CZ Rep. and SK will be unavailable on  Saturday, 11.03.2023 between 2:00 a.m. CET – 5:00 a.m. CET.
• All countries may experience up to 45 minutes of unavailability on Sunday, 12.03.2023 between 1:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET.

Developer Portal and the Sandbox APIs will not be affected.

There are no changes on the APIs or documentation because of these activities.

03 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: Important information

We want to again highlight an important change to the UCBA API planned with a release on 17.03.2023.

As communicated on 24.01.2023 (“UniCredit Bank Austria AG: new Sandbox App2App redirect”), the App2App Redirect service for the UniCredit Bank Austria Mobile Banking Apps will be deployed on 17.03.2023, this development is using the SCA Decoupled flow available for the Bank Austria Mobile Banking App and BusinessNet App.

We kindly ask to check and update your internal system configuration in order to guarantee correct SCA redirect and decoupled processes as of 17.03.2023:

• TPP-Redirect-Preferred => set to “true” will use the REDIRECT SCA method to Internetbanking of supported PSU-ID-Types
• TPP-Redirect-Preferred => set to “false” will use the DECOUPLED SCA method for App2App Redirect of supported PSU-ID-Types (24YOU = MobileBanking App and BUSINESSNET = BusinessNet App).
• TPP-Redirect-Preferred missing: The default value when the header is not present is "false".

Please be aware that an incorrect TPP backend setting can lead to rejected payments/consents.

02 March 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: Maintenance activities 04.03.2023

Due to maintenance activities our production APIs, UniCredit Bank Austria PSD2 API redirect, 24You Internetbanking and MobileBanking will not be available on Saturday, 04.03.2023  between 2:00 a.m. CET – 5:00 a.m. CET.

Delivery of MobileTAN Push messages is also not possible during that time window.

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.

22 February 2023

Maintenance activities 25.02.2023

Due to maintenance activities, our APIs (production and Sandbox) for all countries may experience about 30 minutes of unavailability on Saturday, 25.02.2023 between 2:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET.

The Developer Portal will not be affected.

There are no changes on the APIs or documentation because of these activities.

22 February 2023

Maintenance activities for Corporate Customers 25./26.02.2023

Due to maintenance activities, Production APIs related to Corporate Customers using Corporate Portal for UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), Zagrebačka banka d.d. (Croatia), UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt., UniCredit Bank Romania and UniCredit Bank CZ Rep. and SK will be unavailable between Saturday, 25.02.2023 7:00 p.m. CET – Sunday, 26.02.2023 01:00 a.m. CET.

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.

16 February 2023

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: new Sandbox Funds-Check functionality

We are pleased to inform you that the Sandbox Funds-Check functionality for the UniCredit Bank Austria will be deployed on 21.2.2023.

This development will return a new Boolean field “fundsAvailable”.

Kindly notice that the new Funds-Check service is currently only available for Internetbanking 24YOU and BusinessNet.