LVECU Mobile Access API integration (FDX / OpenBanking)

1. Personal-finance aggregation under Section 1033

A budgeting or net-worth app obtains member consent through an OAuth-style screen, then pulls share-account balances and the 24-month transaction ledger through an FDX-aligned /accounts + /accounts/{id}/transactions pair. Refresh tokens are short-lived, scopes are explicit (balances, transactions, identity), and the connector logs every request for the consent dashboard the CFPB rule expects providers to surface.

2. Small-business AP sync for an educator-run vendor

A tutoring practice or after-school program runs its checking on LVECU. The integration pushes posted transactions and e-Tran Bill Pay payments into QuickBooks Online or Xero nightly, matching on memo strings and check numbers. The flow uses idempotent POST /payments writes and signed webhook callbacks so duplicate postings are detected before they reach the ledger.

3. Loan-origination & mortgage proof-of-funds

A partner lender requests three months of statements via an authorized data-export endpoint. We package the parsed transactions, signed PDF e-Statements, and a notarized SHA-256 hash so the lender can satisfy underwriter requirements without the member emailing PDFs. The flow maps cleanly to FDX account-statements resources.

4. Mobile remote deposit (RDC) for a school activity treasurer

A PTO treasurer uses a small admin tool to batch-deposit dozens of fundraiser checks. The tool wraps the LVECU RDC submission flow, attaching front/back images, dollar amounts, and MICR data; webhooks report acceptance, hold release, and any duplicate-check rejections. Records flow into the PTO bookkeeping spreadsheet automatically.

5. Fraud monitoring and instant card freeze

A consumer-protection plug-in subscribes to a transaction webhook. When a debit-card POS event exceeds a member-defined velocity threshold, the integration calls a card-state endpoint to freeze the card and posts a push notification through the partner app — closing the loop the LVECU Fraud Prevention Hub already supports natively.

Authorize a member session

// 1) Exchange member consent for a session token
POST /api/v1/lvecu/auth/token
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "member_number": "<MEMBER_ID>",
  "device_id": "<DEVICE_FINGERPRINT>",
  "consent_id": "<FDX_CONSENT_ID>",
  "scopes": ["accounts:read", "transactions:read", "statements:read"]
}

// Response
{
  "access_token": "...",
  "refresh_token": "...",
  "expires_in": 900,
  "consent_expires_at": "2027-05-11T00:00:00Z"
}

Pull a date-ranged transaction statement

// 2) FDX-aligned transactions endpoint
GET /api/v1/lvecu/accounts/{accountId}/transactions
  ?fromDate=2026-01-01&toDate=2026-03-31&page=1
Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>

// Response
{
  "accountId": "share-0001",
  "page": 1,
  "transactions": [
    {
      "transactionId": "txn_8d2",
      "postedDate": "2026-03-14",
      "amount": -42.18,
      "currency": "USD",
      "description": "POS PURCHASE WAWA #142",
      "category": "FUEL",
      "balance": 1842.66
    }
  ]
}

Receive a posted-transaction webhook

// 3) Signed webhook for real-time posting events
POST <partner-endpoint>
X-OF-Signature: sha256=<HMAC>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "event": "transaction.posted",
  "memberRef": "mbr_4f1",
  "accountId": "share-draft-0002",
  "transactionId": "txn_e91",
  "amount": -129.40,
  "merchant": "TARGET STORE #1212",
  "postedAt": "2026-05-11T13:04:00Z"
}

// On error: respond 5xx; we retry with exponential
// backoff up to 24h, then surface in a DLQ dashboard.

Regulatory frame

LVECU is regulated by the National Credit Union Administration and falls under the CFPB Personal Financial Data Rights rule (Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act). The final rule was published in October 2024, became effective January 17, 2025, and rolls in by institution size — the largest providers must comply by April 1, 2026, and the smallest by April 1, 2030. Implementations that conform to FDX standards carry "indicia of compliance" for the rule's API requirements.

Operational controls

• Member consent captured, versioned, and revocable in one click.
• Scope-bounded tokens; no unscoped "all data" credentials.
• GLBA Safeguards Rule alignment for data at rest and in transit.
• Data minimization: we request the smallest field set the use case needs.
• Audit log of every API call, retained for the consent lifetime plus 7 years.
• Annual penetration test and SOC 2 evidence available under NDA.

Navy Federal Credit Union

The largest US credit union by assets and members; balances, transactions, mobile deposit and worldwide branch data are commonly synced into cross-institution dashboards alongside community CU accounts like LVECU.

PenFed Credit Union Mobile

Heavily used by service members and federal employees; the same statement and transfer endpoints partners build for LVECU map cleanly onto PenFed's published data surfaces.

Alliant Credit Union

A digital-first CU with a strong app and budgeting tools; integrations frequently combine Alliant goal-based savings data with everyday-checking flow from a community CU like LVECU.

Eastman Credit Union

Repeatedly ranked among the highest-rated US credit-union apps; common in unified-transaction-export use cases where a household keeps an Eastman account next to an LVECU share account.

Delta Community Credit Union

Georgia's largest CU; partners syncing accounting tools across multiple educators-and-airline households often need a single FDX-aligned connector that covers both Delta Community and LVECU.

ESL Federal Credit Union

A western-New-York community CU with a comparable digital-banking footprint to LVECU; useful for benchmarking transaction-category and statement schemas across community institutions.

Redstone Federal Credit Union

Alabama-rooted CU with a mature mobile app; the same scope-bounded token model we deploy for LVECU maps directly onto Redstone connector designs.

Wright-Patt Credit Union

Ohio-based CU known for member service; appears alongside LVECU in multi-CU households where partners need consolidated transaction exports.

State Employees' Credit Union (SECU NC)

One of the largest CUs by membership; education-and-public-sector overlap with LVECU is common, so unified statement-API integrations are frequent requests.

LVCU Mobile Banking (separate app)

Note that "LVCU Mobile Banking" is a distinct credit-union app sometimes confused with LVECU Mobile Access. Partners building geo-aware connectors often disambiguate the two during institution selection.

Deliverables checklist

• OpenAPI 3.1 specification for the LVECU integration surface
• Protocol & auth-flow report (token lifecycle, device binding, error matrix)
• Runnable Python (FastAPI) and Node.js (Express) connector source
• FDX schema mapping document and test fixtures
• Automated pytest / Jest suite plus a Postman collection
• Compliance guidance for GLBA, NCUA, and CFPB Section 1033

Engagement models

Two ways to work with us, both billed transparently:

• Source-code delivery from $300 — runnable connector + full documentation; pay after delivery upon satisfaction.
• Pay-per-call hosted API — call our endpoints and pay only for usage, no upfront fee; ideal for low-volume pilots.

About OpenFinance Lab

OpenFinance Lab is an independent studio focused on mobile-app protocol analysis and authorized financial-data integrations. Our engineers come from US community banking, payment processors, and the FDX implementation community. We routinely build connectors that span large national CUs and smaller, community-rooted CUs like LVECU, treating each as a first-class part of the open-finance landscape.

• Community and federal credit-union digital channels
• Bank cores: Fiserv, Jack Henry, Symitar, Corelation KeyStone
• FDX 6.x schema work and Section 1033 consent infrastructure
• SDKs in Python, Node.js, Go, and Swift / Kotlin clients

Contact

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Engagement workflow

1. Scope confirmation — which data domains (balances, transactions, RDC, Bill Pay) and which scenarios.
2. Protocol analysis and API design (2–5 business days).
3. Build and internal validation against fixtures (3–8 business days).
4. Docs, sample apps, and test cases (1–2 business days).
5. Typical first delivery: 5–15 business days; institution authorization steps can extend this.

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