Programmable Banking
The Open Banking movement aims to enable banking customers with greater control and transparency over their financial data and banking experience.
Investec is leading the way with Open Banking in South Africa, giving you control over your finances, by making their Private and Business Bank Accounts programmable.
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Open an Investec Private Bank account to get access to Programmable Banking.
Investec Programmable Banking is an exclusive functionality for IT professionals, enabling you to be at the forefront of innovation in the financial services sector.
By activating the Programmable Banking functionality on your Investec Private Bank Account you get access to Investecβs Open APIs. This gives you a full history of your transactions and allows you to move your money.
With Programmable Banking, you can build and define your own rules to approve, decline or set your Investec Visa card limits with securely hosted Javascript functions. Limit your fast-food spend, track your coffee intake on the fly - anything goes.
Your Programmable Banking account is enabled with developer tools.β
IDE in Investec Online: Use the IDE to deploy JavaScript code to your card, which executes before and after every card transaction.
Open API Access: Get your account, balance and transaction data through Investec's transaction history API. Transfer money between your Investec accounts with Investec's transfer API. Check out the API docs here.
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