Editing FinTS (section)

{{Short description|Online banking protocol}}
'''FinTS''' ('''Financial Transaction Services'''), formerly known as '''HBCI''' ('''Home Banking Computer Interface'''), is a bank-independent protocol for online banking, developed and used by [[Germany|German]] banks.

HBCI was originally designed by Germany's three banking "pillar" networks, namely the [[Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe]], [[German Cooperative Financial Group]], and [[Association of German Banks]]. The result of this effort was an open protocol specification, which is publicly available. The standardisation effort was necessary to replace the huge number of deprecated homemade software clients and servers (some of them still using [[Bildschirmtext|BTX]] emulation).
While IFX (Interactive Financial Exchange), [[Open Financial Exchange|OFX]] (Open Financial Exchange) and [[Secure electronic transaction|SET]] (Secure Electronic Transaction) are tailored for the North American market, HBCI is designed to meet the requirements of the European market.

The FinTS-specification is publicly available on a website run by the ZKA ([[Central Credit Committee]]).