Bridge

Bridge is an open banking API platform that sits between applications and financial institutions, making it trivially easy to connect customers' bank accounts and move money around. Rather than building direct integrations with hundreds of banks across Europe, developers plug into Bridge once and gain instant access to account aggregation, payment initiation, and transaction data across the continent's fragmented banking landscape.

The company emerged at the intersection of open banking regulation and developer frustration. PSD2 mandated that banks expose customer data via APIs, but the reality was messy—each bank implemented things differently, with varying speed and quality. Bridge standardized that chaos, translating dozens of regional banking protocols into a single, clean REST interface that developers actually want to use.

In the European fintech stack, Bridge occupies a crucial middle layer. While some competitors focus narrowly on payments or data, Bridge built a horizontal platform that covers the full spectrum: reading account balances, initiating payments, categorizing transactions, and handling the compliance overhead that comes with touching banking data. The company competes against both specialized point solutions and infrastructure players, but its strength lies in treating open banking as a genuine developer experience problem, not just a regulatory checkbox.

As fintech adoption accelerates across Europe and regulations like PSD2 spread globally, Bridge's role as a translator between app developers and banking infrastructure has become increasingly central to how modern financial services get built.