This is just not true, for Open Banking in the UK. API standards are published and banks must implement them.
There was a get-out, but it was a bad one for the banks - if any bank did not provide a compliant API by a specific date (IIRC sometime last year) then they would have to keep their web sites entirely unaltered in order to support scraping.
There was a get-out, but it was a bad one for the banks - if any bank did not provide a compliant API by a specific date (IIRC sometime last year) then they would have to keep their web sites entirely unaltered in order to support scraping.