1. Overview
As part of the Open Banking module, a key element of the BOBF is to design use cases with API specifications and customer experience guidelines to provide direction and baseline implementation for all participants. Use cases has been developed by leveraging key insights from global best practices like the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) in the U.K. and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in Australia and identifying business opportunities customized for the Bahrain market. Further, it builds on the regulations of the open banking module, previously released by the Central Bank of Bahrain and also incorporates key inputs received from stakeholders so far.
The use case as part of this document broadly includes the following:
Customer journeys with essential requirements and mandatory requirements
API technical specifications encompassing open data/read-write API specifications, UML diagrams, data models, endpoints and usage examples
2. Theme Selection
Four themes have been identified that form the backbone of categorizing and developing the Use cases for Bahrain’s open banking framework (BOBF).
3. List of Use Cases
In consultation with the Open Banking Committee and based on the inputs received from the industry, an initial list of use cases have been finalised to be part of Bahrain’s Open Banking Framework
S. No. | Theme | Use Cases | Description |
1 | PISP |
| Single Domestic Payment allows the user/customer to post his/her consent to the PISPs to make a one-time payment for a specific amount to a specific payee immediately, wherein the PISP provides this instruction to the customer’s ASPSPs . Single domestic payment use cases has been submitted for Industry feedback as working document 1 |
2 | PISP | Single Future Dated Domestic Payment
| Single Future Dated Domestic Payment allows the user/customer to post his/her consent to PISPs to make a one-time payment for a specific amount to a specific payee on a specific future date, wherein the PISP provides this instruction to the customer’s ASPSPs . |
3 | PISP | Single International Payment allows the user/customer to post his/her consent to PISPs to make an international payment for a specific amount to a specific payee, wherein the PISP provides this instruction to the customer’s ASPSPs . | |
4 | PISP | Bulk/Batch Payment allows the user/customer to post his/her consent to the PISPs to initiate multiple payments to one or more beneficiaries in a single transaction, wherein the PISP provides this instruction to the customer’s ASPSPs . | |
5 | AISP | Account Information Sharing allows the user/customer post his/her consent to the AISPs to instruct his/her ASPSPs to share the user/customers’ data. The AISPs can access the user/customers data to provide recommendations/ innovative financial products and services as per his/ her needs | |
6 | AISP | Sharing Product Details allows third party developers (such as AISPs) to request for ASPSPs products and services details. The ASPSPs share the requested information through standard APIs. | |
7 | Essential |
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8 | Essential |
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