# External Bank Accounts

External bank accounts are financial accounts associated with a Stripe platform’s connected accounts for the purpose of transferring funds to or from the connected account’s Stripe balance.

## Endpoints

### Create a bank account

- [POST /v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts](https://docs.stripe.com/api/external_account_bank_accounts/create.md)

### Update a bank account

- [POST /v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts/:id](https://docs.stripe.com/api/external_account_bank_accounts/update.md)

### Retrieve a bank account

- [GET /v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts/:id](https://docs.stripe.com/api/external_account_bank_accounts/retrieve.md)

### List all bank accounts

- [GET /v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts](https://docs.stripe.com/api/external_account_bank_accounts/list.md)

### Delete a bank account

- [DELETE /v1/accounts/:id/external_accounts/:id](https://docs.stripe.com/api/external_account_bank_accounts/delete.md)

## Events

- `account.external_account.created`
Occurs whenever an external account is created.

- `account.external_account.deleted`
Occurs whenever an external account is deleted.

- `account.external_account.updated`
Occurs whenever an external account is updated.

- `customer.source.created`
Occurs whenever a new source is created for a customer.

- `customer.source.deleted`
Occurs whenever a source is removed from a customer.

- `customer.source.updated`
Occurs whenever a source’s details are changed.