CAF Bank claimed that their smooth and trouble-free systems upgrade last year would finally allow them to integrate with Open Banking.

And while they technically have been for months, I’d yet to find a single provider who had actually done the work to connect to them.

Quite why there has to be per-provider per-bank work when it’s a standard is a question for another day.

The good news is that GoCardless have finally gone and done it:

CAF transaction via GoCardless Bank Account Data API

… it still goes bang if you try and fetch data for a too-big date range, and it will need tediously re-authorizing every 90 days, but having machine-to-machine hands off access to this stuff is a long, long overdue leap forward.