Newsroom

Welcome to the Newsroom. Here you can find all news and announcements related to the Unicredit API ecosystem.

10 March 2022

UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia: local CZ/SK API standards to be decommissioned

The transition period in which both Berlin Group Real API  and local CZ/SK API standards were co-existing will end most likely by the end of Q2 2022.  All TPP’s which are still using local CZ/SK API standards should finalize  the migration activities to Berlin Group Real API to ensure their business continuity. Precise date when Berlin Group Real API will be the only supported API standard is to be communicated in Q2 2022.

09 March 2022

Maintenance activities 12./13.03.2022

Due to maintenance activities, PSD2 APIs (production) of

  • All countries of UniCredit Group will not be available on Saturday, 12.03.2022 between 2:00 a.m. CET and 5:00 a.m. CET.
  • UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) will not be available on Saturday, 12.03.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET and 6:00 a.m. CET and on Sunday, 13.03.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET and 2:00 a.m. CET.  
  • UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) redirect flow will not be available between Saturday, 12.03.2022 11:00 p.m. CET and Sunday, 13.03.2022 4:00 a.m. CET.
  • Corporate Customers for UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), UniCredit Bank Austria AG, 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 Sunday, 13.03.2022 between 8:30 a.m. CET and 9:00 p.m. CET.  
  • UniCredit Bank Austria, Internetbanking and MobileBanking channels will not be available on Sunday, 13.03.2022 between 2:00 a.m. CET and 3:00 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 2022

UniCredit Bank AG (Germany): Change on getTransactionList API call

As announced 7th of July 2020, for UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), the attribute “additionalInformation” provides max. 27 characters transactionCode + max. 140 characters remittanceinformation + max. 345 characters additional remittanceinformation, intended to provide the complete remittanceinformation and to replace the attribute "remittanceInformationUnstructured" with only max. 140 characters remittanceinformation. We informed the remittance information in field “remittanceInformationUnstructured” will be kept for at least another three months.

On 25th of March 2022 we plan to remove the attribute “remittanceInformationUnstructured”. So if not done yet, please switch to “additionalInformation” attribute before.

This affects only UniCredit Bank AG (Germany). Other countries are not impacted.

03 March 2022

Maintenance activities 05.03.2022

Due to maintenance activities, PSD2 APIs (production) of UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) will not be available on Saturday 05.03.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET and 5:00 CET. During that time window, delivery of MobileTAN Push messages is also not possible. Temporary interruptions for Mobile banking for UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) might be possible.

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.

02 March 2022

UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt: New Real API feature for Bank-offered consent

We are glad to inform you that the new feature for bank-offered consent in  Real API environment is fully activated.

Do not hesitate to contact us via our support form in case of any challenges in using the new feature.

28 February 2022

Maintenance activities 04.03.2022

Due to maintenance activities, all PSD2 APIs (production and Sandbox) of UniCredit Group might not be available temporarily on Friday, 04.03.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET - 7:00 a.m. CET.

Also the Developer Portal will be affected.

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

22 February 2022

UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy): Maintenance activity 27.02.2022

Due to maintenance activities, production APIs related to UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) will be temporarily unavailable on Sunday, 27.02.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET - 5:30 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.

22 February 2022

UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRt: Maintenance activities 22.02.2022

Due to maintenance activities, UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRt PSD2 APIs (production) for Corporate Customers and  Spectra channel will not be available from 22.02.2022 7:00 p.m. CET up to 22.02.2022 9:00 p.m. CET.

There will be changes on the Real APIs of because of these activities. See below the for more details.

Implementation of Bank-offered account will enable TPPs to send AIS consent requests without dedicated accounts. Once the user follows the redirect link and authenticates, the user will be presented with eligible accounts (based on the user’s account rights). The user will then decide on what permission types and what accounts will grant to the TPPs.

Other APIs, Countries, the Developer Portal and the Sandbox APIs will not be affected.

22 February 2022

UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d. , UniCredit Bulbank AD, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRt, UniCredit Bank S.A. : Improvements for Real API

By end of summer 2022 we will be improving the functionality for Open API channel for Real API. Once the functionalities will be fully enabled at Countries level, new message will appear in the Newsroom. Main areas of improvement:

1. Making debtorAccount field Optional on POSTinitPaymentRequest will enable TPPs to send PIS requests without this field. Once the user follows the redirect link, user will be forwarded to UniCredit channel. Afterwards, when user passes authorization and authentication, the payment will be displayed with the option to select Payer account based on the logic on payment type and the user’s account rights. Once the user signs the payment, the flow continues in the general way.

2. Implementation of Bank-offered account will enable TPPs to send AIS consent requests without dedicated accounts. Once the user follows the redirect link and authenticates, the user will be presented with eligible accounts (based on the user’s account rights). The user will then decide on what permission types and what accounts will grant to the TPPs.

3. DebtorName on GETpaymentDetailResponse – enabling additional field (debtor name/ name of the account owner) to be present on API GETpaymentDetail response (for private individuals, the feature is fully implemented and for corporate customers the implementation is under way).

21 February 2022

Zagrebačka Banka d.d. : New Real API feature for Instant Payments in Kuna is active

We are glad to inform you that new payment product on Real API environment (based on IBAN) - Instant Payments(IP) in local currency(Kuna) is fully activated.

Do not hesitate to contact us via our support form in case of any challenges in using the new feature.

18 February 2022

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: Maintenance activities 22.02.2022

Due to maintenance activities, UniCredit Bank Austria AG PSD2 APIs (production), Internetbanking and MobileBanking will not be available from 22.02.2022 7:00 p.m. CET up to 23.02.2022 max. 5:00 a.m. CET..

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

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

Other APIs, countries, the Developer Portal and the Sandbox APIs will not be affected.

17 February 2022

UniCredit Bank Austria AG: Maintenance activities 18.02.2022

Due to maintenance activities, UniCredit Bank Austria AG Internetbanking and MobileBanking will not be available on Friday between 18.02.2022 01:00 a.m. CET – 18.02.2022 01:30 a.m. CET. The maintenance activities for Internetbanking will also cause temporary unavailability of the redirect for PSD2 APIs during the above timeframe.

Other countries, the Developer Portal or the Sandbox APIs will not be affected.

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

16 February 2022

Maintenance activities 19./20.02.2022

Due to maintenance activities,

  • Following APIs will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday, 19.02.2022 between 1:00 a.m. CET - 5:00 a.m. CET.
    • Production PIS APIs for UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy)
    • Production and Sandbox APIs for UniCredit Banka Slovenija d.d., UniCredit Bank CZ Rep. and SK, UniCredit Bank Hungary Zrt., UniCredit Bank Romania, UniCredit Bulbank AD and Zagrebačka Banka d.d. (Croatia)
  • Production APIs related to Corporate Customers for UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy), UniCredit Bank Austria AG, 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, 19.02.2022 7:00 p.m. CET – Sunday, 20.02.2022 3:00 a.m. CET
  • Production PIS APIs for UniCredit Bank AG (Germany), UniCredit Bank Austria AG and UniCredit S.p.A. (Italy) will be temporarily unavailable between Saturday, 19.02.2022 11:00 p.m. CET – Sunday, 20.02.2022 3:00 a.m. CET

Developer Portal will not be affected.

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

11 February 2022

UniCredit Bank AG (Germany): Maintenance activity 12./13.02.2022

Due to planned maintenance activities affecting authorization flow (redirect and embedded flow), production APIs of UniCredit Bank AG (Germany) will not be available temporarily on Saturday, 12.02.2022  from 1:00 a.m. CET until Saturday, 12.02.2022 5:00 a.m. CET and Saturday, 12.02.2022 from 10:00 p.m. CET until Sunday, 13.02.2022 10:00 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.

11 February 2022

Unicredit Banka Slovenija d.d. , UniCredit Bulbank AD, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, UniCredit Bank Hungary ZRt, UniCredit Bank S.A. : New Sandbox feature

We updated the Sandbox behavior debtorAccount OPTIONAL on POSTinitPaymentRequest as preview for the upcoming updates in Real API’s.

For the domestic payments in Real API we will be introducing validations that only eligible accounts will be used for the created payments. Therefore with this Sandbox deployment we are introducing validation rules which will return only domestic accounts held in domestic currency on Sandbox for payments with creditorAccount.currency – domestic AND instructedAmount.currency – domestic.