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Your Financial Data Aggregation Benefits And Risks
The sidebar mentions the nascent use of APIs by aggregators. The idea is that instead of giving a password to the aggregator, you can go to the site being scraped and grant the aggregator just the permissions you want the aggregator to have.
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Here's a description of Fidelity's API, which it calls Fidelity Access:
https://www.fidelity.com/about-fidelity/corporate/fidelity-access-offers-secure-way-for-clients-to-share-fidelity-account-data