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I don't know of anything stopping banks from creating FOSS apps, but since it's not their area of expertise, I think they're more likely to license an app from a provider, and existing providers don't have a compelling incentive to open-source their apps.
If we want FOSS banking apps, I think the first and most important step would be legally requiring banks to provide standard APIs.
Germany supposedly has an open standard banking API. I don’t know if it’s legally mandated but in principle its mere existence and acceptance by some banks would theoretically be sufficient to inspire FOSS apps. I vaguely recall that GNU Cash recognizes that standard.. can anyone confirm?
I don’t think I’ve seen any portable FOSS banking apps for any country in the F-Droid official repos. Which suggests that a standard open API may not be sufficient. Or perhaps I have something wrong here.