The 'Berlin Group' is a pan-European payments interoperability standards and harmonisation initiative with the primary objective of defining open and common scheme- and processor-independent standards in the interbanking domain between Creditor Bank (Acquirer) and Debtor Bank (Issuer), complementing the work carried out by e.g. the European Payments Council. As such, the Berlin Group has been established as a pure technical standardisation body, focusing on detailed technical and organisational requirements to achieve this primary objective.

Recent News

Oct 02
UPDATE: Announcement: Annual DRP Failover Test (Oct 14 – Oct 15, 2025)

Dear Developers,

We would like to inform you about the upcoming annual DRP failover test for the API.

The primary test dates are now scheduled for October 14th to October 15th, 2025. On both days, we expect an API...

Oct 01
Downtime instant payments / Maintenance announcement 18.10.2025 - 19.10.2025

Dear developers,

due to maintenance work at our comdirect services we have a downtime for instant payments from 18.10.2025 23:30 PM till 19.10.2025 05:00AM.

This will concern the instant payments processed by XS2A-API as...

APIs

GET

getConsentAuthorizationUsingGET

/berlingroup/v1/consents/{consent-id}/authorisations/{authorisation-id}

GET

getAccountBalancesUsingGET

/berlingroup/v1/accounts/{account-id}/balances

POST

createConsentUsingPOST

/berlingroup/v1/consents

GET

getConsentUsingGET

/berlingroup/v1/consents/{consent-id}

DELETE

deleteConsentUsingDELETE

/berlingroup/v1/consents/{consent-id}