Tuesday, 11/18/2008

The intention of AqBanking is to provide a middle layer between the program and the various Online Banking libraries (e.g. AqHBCI, OpenHBCI etc).
The real work is done in banking backends. The first backend which is already supported is AqHBCI, a library which implements a client for the German HBCI (Home Banking Computer Interface) protocol.
The backend AqHBCI currently supports these security media: * RDH keyfile (RSA-DES-Hybrid mode) * DDV chipcard (DES-DES-Verfahren) * RSA chipcard (RSA-DES-Hybrid mode) * OpenHBCI keyfile (either OpenHBCI 1 or 2) * PIN/TAN (PIN/TAN mode using HTTP over SSL)
This package contains the following backends: * AqHBCI (German Online Banking protocol HBCI 2.01, 2.10 and 2.20) * AqDTAUS (creates DTAUS discs and prints the necessary documents) * AqOfxConnect (OFX Direct Connect) * AqGeldKarte (shows account information from a GeldKarte)
AqBanking uses various plugins to simplify import and export of financial data. It also provides the administration of profiles on a per import/export plugin basis.
Currently there are plugins for the following formats:
* Importers: - DTAUS (German financial format) - SWIFT (MT940 and MT942) - OFX - CSV - OpenHBCI1 transactions - ERI
* Exporters - DTAUS (German financial format) - CSV
AqBanking supports plugins which allow lookup and verification of bank code/account id pair validity. For Germany the library KtoBlzCheck is used.
Currently AqBanking provides informations about: - ca 25,000 US banks - ca 20,000 German banks - ca 3,600 Swiss banks - ca 2,300 Austrian banks
AqBanking also provides information about countries: Country name, ISO-3166 country code (both numeric and alpha) and currency information (ISO 4217 currency codes).
Author: Martin Preuss