Hello!

We would like to announce some important updates and coming improvements in Šiaulių Bankas PSD2 API.

Version (v2) release

Regarding the Eurosystem’s TARGET consolidation project some breaking changes will be made to cross-border payments. These changes will lead to Šiaulių Bankas PSD2 API v2 version release.

New versioning will be applied to all services including AIS, PIS and CoF. API version number is included into the URL, for example: {{apiUri}}/v2/accounts

The older PSD2 API version will be deprecated but still available for 2 months after release in the production environment and then removed.

Cross-border-credit-transfers structural changes

ISO 20022 migration (TARGET consolidation project) is bringing changes in cross-border-credit-transfer payments structure in Šiaulių Bankas PSD2 API. ISO 20022 Migration will go live on November 21, 2022. Structured address field is added ant other changes are made. In this regard, the services on API version v2 will be modified:

POST/v2/payments/cross-border-credit-transfers

GET/v2/payments/cross-border-credit-transfers/{paymentId}

POST/v2/bulk-payments/cross-border-credit-transfers

GET/v2/bulk-payments/cross-border-credit-transfers/{paymentId}

Sandbox environment and swagger-documentation is updated already. We highly recommend you to check it and If any actions is needed on your side, take it.

Other changes

On endpoints: sepa-credit-transfers and instant-sepa-credit-transfers there will be slight changes regarding debtorIdentification object unification. Please check swagger documentation (v2) for detailed information.

In addition, from now in SANDBOX environment "ownerName" value will be returned in GET /accounts/{{accountId}} response, displaying account owner name value for example, name and surname (private customer) or company name (business customer). This change will be active in our production environment from the mid of October, 2022.

If you require any support, please contact us by an email – openbanking@sb.lt

Please follow latest information about the updated portal and Šiaulių bankas PSD2 API at https://sandbox.sb.lt/en/ob/news.