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Available in: Cloud · Desktop app · Self-hosted  |  Reach: 🇦🇺 (CDR) · 🇳🇿 · 🇺🇸  |  Cost: RedBark Developer or Professional plan (SimpleFIN is not on the Saver tier); a paid AI2Fin plan  |  Protocol: SimpleFIN

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What it is

RedBark is a bank-data sync service built on regulated rails — Australia’s Consumer Data Right, New Zealand’s Akahu, and Plaid in the US. It has a pass-through design: it proxies data from your bank to the destinations you choose and stores nothing itself. One of those destinations is a SimpleFIN bridge, and AI2Fin speaks SimpleFIN. So RedBark works with AI2Fin today with no RedBark-specific code: you generate a SimpleFIN setup token at RedBark and paste it into the SimpleFIN connector. For Australians this is the practical way to a CDR bank feed on the desktop app — the consent runs at RedBark, the accredited party, and AI2Fin on your machine only ever reads.

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Connect

1

Connect your banks at RedBark

Sign up at redbark.com (7-day trial, no card), then connect each bank through its official consent flow — CDR for Australian banks.
2

Create a SimpleFIN setup token

RedBark → Settings → SimpleFIN → create a token and name it after the app (for example 2Fin). The token can be claimed once, within 7 days.
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Paste it into AI2Fin

Connectors → search your bank, or choose the SimpleFIN tile → paste → Connect. AI2Fin claims the token and lists your accounts.

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What syncs

  • Accounts and current balances, with the institution’s name
  • Transactions, with pending status preserved; up to 2,000 per account per read, which AI2Fin pages through on the first sync
  • Not brokerage holdings — RedBark’s SimpleFIN output excludes them. Import those from a statement or CSV instead.
RedBark proxies live from the bank, so a first read of ~13 months can take longer than a bridge that caches. Subsequent polls are incremental.

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Revoking

Disconnect in AI2Fin to stop reads. Revoke the SimpleFIN token — or the bank consent itself — at RedBark. Under CDR you can also withdraw consent at the bank.

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Self-hosting note

If you run AI2Fin on a server, add redbark.com to SIMPLEFIN_BRIDGE_ALLOWLIST or the connection will be refused as an unknown bridge host. The desktop app has no allowlist because the request originates on your own machine.

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Frequently asked

Both run on CDR. RedBark’s SimpleFIN path has no dependency on AI2Fin’s infrastructure at all, which suits the desktop app; BankSync offers a guided Connect with BankSync flow and reaches the UK and EU too. If you already pay for one, use that one.
RedBark also exposes a REST API with holdings, trades and webhooks. A native connection would add brokerage positions and push-based updates; the SimpleFIN path already covers accounts and transactions. If holdings matter to you, tell us.