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

Nov 11
Maintenance announcement 12.11.2025

Dear developers,

due to maintenance work, we have an expected downtime (for at least limited availability) for all our services (including the API) on 12.11.2025 00:00AM till approximately 01:30AM .

The reason is a hotfix...

Nov 09
Downtime instant payments / Maintenance announcement 15.11.2025 - 16.11.2025

Dear developers,

due to maintenance work at our comdirect services we have a downtime for instant payments from 15.11.2025 23:30 PM till 16.11.2025 03:00AM.

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}