# Vanquis Bank Payment Initiation API (PIS)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/vanquis-banking-group/vanquis-payment-initiation-api/  
**Provider:** Vanquis Banking Group — https://apis.io/providers/vanquis-banking-group/  
**Documentation:** https://www.vanquis.com/developer-portal/

Vanquis Bank Payment Initiation API (PIS) is one of 4 APIs that [Vanquis Banking Group](https://apis.io/providers/vanquis-banking-group/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Payment Initiation, PISP, and Open Banking. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

Vanquis Bank's OBIE Read/Write Payment Initiation API (PISP), conformant to the Open Banking Implementation Entity Read/Write API Standard v3.1.10. Enables authorised Payment Initiation Service Providers to initiate payments from a customer account with consent, secured under the PSD2 / FAPI profile (OAuth2/OIDC, mutual-TLS, SCA). The production host is provisioned per TPP during Open Banking Directory onboarding and is not publicly published; the harvested OpenAPI is the shared OBIE standard contract, not a Vanquis proprietary document.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vanquis-banking-group/refs/heads/main/openapi/obie-payment-initiation-openapi.yaml
- **Documentation** — https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/pages/937754701/Payment+Initiation+API+Specification+-+v3.1
- **APIReference** — https://www.vanquis.com/developer-portal/
- **DeveloperPortal** — https://www.vanquis.com/developer-portal/

## Other Vanquis Banking Group APIs (3)

- [Vanquis Bank Account and Transaction API (AIS)](https://apis.io/apis/vanquis-banking-group/vanquis-account-transaction-api/)
- [Vanquis Bank Confirmation of Funds API (CBPII)](https://apis.io/apis/vanquis-banking-group/vanquis-confirmation-of-funds-api/)
- [Vanquis Bank Dynamic Client Registration API](https://apis.io/apis/vanquis-banking-group/vanquis-dynamic-client-registration-api/)

## Tags

Payment Initiation, PISP, Open Banking

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