Do German banks generally not work with Yodlee/Plaid for importing transactional data and balances into money management tracking tools? Are there other money management tools like Quicken in Germany or do most people use spreadsheets?

Curious what the most efficient way would be to sync German lender accounts and borrowing card transaction data with balances into one unified dashboard (ideally multi currency). Quicken/YNAB/Mint/Persona Capital are tools popular in the US.

From what I can tell, most German banks are never listed on those tools (outside of maybe 1 or 2 bigger banks). The backend API to connect those accounts in the US to the 3rd party tools usually is either Yodlee or Plaid (as far as I know). Is this approach to finances simply not a norm and there's not a sector in Germany for this? Is it a privacy thing (Plaid and Yodlee I believe do sell some data) or a regulation thing?

Anyone have an approach that doesn't require exporting csv each month to get these into one combined view? Thanks

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