📺News and Updates

News and Updates to our API services and content

In this section we publish updates to our API and related services!

• For updates to LHV EE services please visit https://partners.lhv.ee/en/connect/#introduction

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2025.06.05

To improve traceability of returned payments, Transaction Notification and Account Statement messages will now include the original payment Account Servicer Reference whenever a transaction is marked as a return. This reference will be indicated in the Return Information section under Additional Information (AddtInf) tag.

2025.06.02

An optional parameter removeAfterDelivery is now available in webhook subscription configurations. When enabled, this feature allows messages that are successfully delivered via webhook to be automatically marked as processed. As a result, such messages will no longer appear in the response of Get next message service.

2025.05.28

The roll out of the response compression change has been delayed to give customers more time to prepare. The new production release date is: 9 June 2025

• See 📣 Response Compression in Connect API

2025.05.23

Published documentation for the following existing API services:

• Get list of requests

• Get request by request ID

2025.05.13

Published a new service for quick and easy testing of Response Compression

New service - Get compressed message for testing

2025.04.07

Updates to Confirmation of Payee Services pages include adding message response types.

2025.04.07

Significant updates to the Payment Collection Services pages including adding message response types and examples. Introduced two new pages for confirmation messages and updated the error code list.

2025.03.24

Significant updates to the Payment Initiation Services pages include improved wording and restructured content for clarity and consistency. No functional changes were introduced.

2025.03.11

Notice about potential breaking change - Response Compression

Implementation date will be published based on customer feedback.

2025.02.25

Published new feature - adding full message bodies to Webhooks. More details at Full Bodied Webhooks

2025.02.07

Added information about override option to route any API request to LHV UK or LHV EE services using x-bank-code HTTP header.

Override Option for LHV UK or LHV EE Services

2025.01.23

We introduced a limit to allow up to 10 000 Pending VIBAN accounts at a time per single Master Account. This is enforced to avoid opening too many accounts due to any errors.

Limit can be overridden only on special request to our Support.

VIBAN Bulk Open

2024.12.10

We’re excited to announce the launch of Metadata for Connect Messages and Webhooks, designed to enhance API usability by surfacing key data points like IBANs and transaction references directly in message structures. This improvement significantly speeds up integrations by reducing the need to parse large message bodies, enabling faster, more efficient workflows for our customers.

Messages Metadata

2024.11.06 - Added information about new Customer Certificates issued by LHV UK CA (Certificate Authority)

Authentication and Certificates

2024.08.22 - New updated chapter about idempotency in Payments service!

Payments Service Idempotency

2024.08.19 - Webhooks service is now available for customer testing!

Webhooks

2024.07.29 - Published first version of Webhooks documentation - Webhooks. Service is currently in pilot testing phase and available for wide use in a few weeks!

2024.06.27 - Added descriptions for Messages V2 services. These are newer advanced services currently supporting only LHV UK messages:

• Get list of messages V2

• Mark batch of messages as processed V2

2024.05.29 - New documentation portal at https://docs.lhv.com/connect is officially live! All old and new customers of LHV UK (LHV Bank Limited) should use this by default as their main source for integrating with our services.

LHV EE documentation at https://partners.lhv.ee/en/connect is still available, but UK related specifics shall be gradually removed.

2024.04.09 - First version of our new API specification. Still work in progress and until further notice please use existing documentation portal at https://partners.lhv.ee/en/connect