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Banked

Banked is a global account-to-account (A2A) payments network built on open banking that enables real-time pay-by-bank payments for consumers, businesses, and banks. Its API-first platform provides hosted Checkout, Payment Links and QR codes, Payouts, Refunds, Reporting, loyalty (Incentivize), and fraud protection, using bank-native biometric authentication and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) to move money securely with minimal chargebacks. A single Payments API and Partner API integration gives merchants and platforms access across multiple markets, and Banked ships an official hosted MCP server so agents can create, search, and refund payments over OAuth 2.0.

Banked publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Open Banking, Account-to-Account, and Pay by Bank.

The Banked catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Banked’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

42.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyPaymentsOpen BankingAccount-to-AccountPay by BankFintechPayment ProcessingPayouts

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 42.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Banked Payments API

Account-to-account payments over open banking — create payment sessions (checkout), payouts, refunds, and webhooks. The Partner API onboards businesses on behalf of platforms. O...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

banked-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Banked Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Banked Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Banked Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Banked Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: banked
name: Banked
description: Banked is a global account-to-account (A2A) payments network built on open banking that enables real-time pay-by-bank
  payments for consumers, businesses, and banks. Its API-first platform provides hosted Checkout, Payment Links and QR codes,
  Payouts, Refunds, Reporting, loyalty (Incentivize), and fraud protection, using bank-native biometric authentication and
  Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) to move money securely with minimal chargebacks. A single Payments API and Partner
  API integration gives merchants and platforms access across multiple markets, and Banked ships an official hosted MCP server
  so agents can create, search, and refund payments over OAuth 2.0.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/banked/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://images.prismic.io/banked/dc1e104e-b397-4f26-ba16-0b64aee7daea_page-og-2.png?auto=compress,format&w=1200&h=627
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Open Banking
- Account-to-Account
- Pay by Bank
- Fintech
- Payment Processing
- Payouts
apis:
- name: Banked Payments API
  description: Account-to-account payments over open banking — create payment sessions (checkout), payouts, refunds, and webhooks.
    The Partner API onboards businesses on behalf of platforms. OAuth 2.0 client-credentials auth against api.banked.com.
  humanURL: https://developer.banked.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.banked.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.banked.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.banked.com/reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/banked-authentication.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/banked-mcp.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/banked-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/banked-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/banked-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/banked-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://banked.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.banked.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.banked.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.banked.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.banked.com/docs
- type: Support
  url: https://support.paybybank.com
- type: Login
  url: https://console.banked.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/@banked
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://banked.com/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/banked
- type: Postman
  url: https://github.com/banked/postman-collections-public
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.banked.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/banked-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/banked-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/banked-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/banked-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/banked-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/banked-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/banked-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/banked-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/banked-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/banked-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/banked-lifecycle.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/banked-webhooks.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence