BankMCP™

Your bank, in Claude. Read-only, self-hosted, one user.

BankMCP™ is not a bank. It is a small open-source server you host yourself (package name bank-mcp). It connects to your banks through Enable Banking, which wraps 2,700+ European banks in one PSD2 API, and exposes them to Claude as an MCP connector. Read-only, no payments, no third party holding your data.

"Has the invoice from Acme been paid?" · "What did we spend on groceries in August?" · "Which subscriptions am I paying for, and what do they cost per year?" · "Tell me when my balance drops below 5,000."

How it works

Claude ──OAuth──▶ your BankMCP™ server ──JWT──▶ Enable Banking ──PSD2──▶ your bank

• Claude talks to your server as a custom connector. You sign in once with a password; tokens handle the rest.
• Your server holds the Enable Banking application key, the bank consents and your account ids. It never stores balances or transactions and sends no telemetry.
• Enable Banking is the licensed provider. You log in at your bank's own site to approve access; nobody sees your bank credentials.

Setup

You need an Enable Banking account (free), a place to run a container with a public https address, and about fifteen minutes.

1. Deploy

Any container host works. The server needs a persistent volume at /data and a public https address; it asks you for everything else in the browser.

Railway: New Project, Deploy from GitHub repo, pick this repo. Add a volume mounted at /data and generate a domain (Settings, Networking, port 8080). The Dockerfile and railway.json are picked up automatically, and the server learns its own address from Railway.

Docker Compose on your own box: docker compose up -d, then put a TLS terminator in front (Caddy needs two lines: YOUR-HOST { reverse_proxy localhost:8080 }) and set BASE_URL to the public address. Fly.io works like Railway: volume at /data, the app name gives the address.

Open the address. A fresh server shows a setup page.

2. Register an Enable Banking application

The setup page lists the exact values Enable Banking's form asks for: the redirect URL, a description for the consent screen, and the privacy and terms URLs, all pointing at your server. At https://enablebanking.com/cp/applications create an application with them:

• Environment: Production for your real accounts, Sandbox for test data (see Going live below for the production rules).
• Keep "generate private key" selected. A .pem file downloads once when you save; that is the key. The application id (a UUID) is shown after saving.

3. Finish setup

Back on the setup page: paste the application id, choose the .pem file, pick a password of twelve characters or more. Everything is stored on the volume, and the page turns into a status page showing the connector URL for Claude.

Prefer configuration by environment? Set these and the setup page never appears:

Variable	Value
EB_APP_ID	the application id
EB_PRIVATE_KEY	the .pem contents, base64: base64 -i app.pem | tr -d '\n'
ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH	output of npm run hash-password (or set ADMIN_PASSWORD)
BASE_URL	https://YOUR-HOST (Railway and Fly set this for you)
DEFAULT_COUNTRY	your country code, e.g. DK
APP_NAME	optional, the name shown on the sign-in and status pages (default BankMCP™)

Optional: NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL for watch notifications and sign-in alerts (a Slack incoming webhook works). Full list in .env.example. npm run check verifies a configuration from a terminal.

4. Add the connector in Claude

In claude.ai (or the desktop app): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name it BankMCP™, paste https://YOUR-HOST/mcp, save, then click Connect. Your server shows a password page; enter the admin password. That is the only login you will do.

In Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http bank https://YOUR-HOST/mcp

then run /mcp inside Claude Code to sign in.

5. Connect your bank

In Claude, say "connect my bank" (or use the connect-bank prompt). Claude looks up your bank, gives you a link, you log in at the bank and approve, and the accounts appear. Consents last up to 180 days; Claude tells you when one is about to expire and the same conversation renews it.

Give accounts labels ("Everyday", "Joint expenses", "Mortgage") when Claude suggests them. Every tool accepts labels instead of ids.

Going live with your own accounts

Enable Banking's production environment normally requires a contract, but it has a restricted mode for accessing your own accounts, explicitly allowed for individual non-commercial use. After registering a Production application:

1. On the (Inactive) application click Activate by linking accounts.
2. Log in at your bank and approve. Repeat for each bank you want.
3. The application becomes active and the API only ever returns accounts you linked this way.

Read the Restriction of Use section of Enable Banking's Terms of Service before you rely on it: restricted mode is for your own accounts, not for offering a service to others. This project does not change those terms.

What you get

Tools (all read-only):

Tool	What it does
list_banks, start_consent, consent_status, disconnect_bank	connect and manage banks
list_accounts, set_account_label	accounts with booked balances; your own names for them
get_balances	booked and available balance for one account
get_transactions	signed amounts, one counterparty, one description; paginated
create_watch, list_watches, delete_watch, check_watches	background rules with webhook notifications

Prompts: connect-bank, monthly-summary, build-budget, subscription-audit, unusual-transactions.

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