Banks in South Africa

Our directory lists 312 banks and financial institutions in South Africa. You can browse the full alphabetical list above; the stat cards show how many publish a developer portal, offer a sandbox, or are reachable through an API aggregator.

We don't yet have confirmed developer-portal data for banks in South Africa. Many can still be reached through an API aggregator like Plaid, Tink, TrueLayer, MX, or Salt Edge — see the aggregator coverage stat above.

South Africa is outside the EU PSD2 zone, but many banks still expose open banking APIs voluntarily or under local rules (e.g. UK Open Banking, US CFPB Section 1033, Australia's CDR, Brazil's Open Finance, India's Account Aggregator framework). Open each provider profile to see the standards it supports.

2 of the 312 banks in South Africa are reachable through at least one open banking API aggregator — typically Plaid, Tink, TrueLayer, MX, Salt Edge, Yodlee, or Yapily. Each provider profile lists the aggregators that connect to that specific bank.