Close Brothers

Close Brothers Group plc (LSE: CBG) is a UK merchant banking group founded in 1878 and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, headquartered at 10 Crown Place, London EC2A 4FT. The group provides specialist lending across motor, premium, asset, invoice, and property finance; takes personal and business deposits through Close Brothers Savings; manages wealth through Close Brothers Asset Management; and trades securities through Winterflood. Its banking entity, Close Brothers Limited, is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. Close Brothers is not one of the CMA9 mandated banks; it offers savings and deposit products rather than online payment (current) accounts, and therefore carries no UK Open Banking (OBIE / PSD2) Read/Write or Open Data publishing obligation. As of this profile no public developer portal, Open Banking Open Data endpoint, or documented API surface could be confirmed for the group.

Close Brothers is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Financial Services, Banking, Merchant Banking, Specialist Lending, and Savings.

Close Brothers’ developer surface includes support and 5 more developer resources.

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8.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Financial Services BankingMerchant BankingSpecialist Lending Savings Wealth Management Securities United KingdomFTSE 250

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 8.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Banking & Open Finance regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 4.8 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Consumer Lending Licensing (UK, US, Canada credit licence registers)	regulated	19.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Security Posture 1

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

Close Brothers Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: close-brothers
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/close-brothers/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Close Brothers
kind: company
description: 'Close Brothers Group plc (LSE: CBG) is a UK merchant banking group founded in 1878 and a constituent of the
  FTSE 250 Index, headquartered at 10 Crown Place, London EC2A 4FT. The group provides specialist lending across motor, premium,
  asset, invoice, and property finance; takes personal and business deposits through Close Brothers Savings; manages wealth
  through Close Brothers Asset Management; and trades securities through Winterflood. Its banking entity, Close Brothers Limited,
  is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. Close
  Brothers is not one of the CMA9 mandated banks; it offers savings and deposit products rather than online payment (current)
  accounts, and therefore carries no UK Open Banking (OBIE / PSD2) Read/Write or Open Data publishing obligation. As of this
  profile no public developer portal, Open Banking Open Data endpoint, or documented API surface could be confirmed for the
  group.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Merchant Banking
- Specialist Lending
- Savings
- Wealth Management
- Securities
- United Kingdom
- FTSE 250
tags_raw:
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Merchant Banking
- Specialist Lending
- Savings
- Wealth Management
- Securities
- United Kingdom
- FTSE 250
- Financial-Services
created: '2026-07-23'
modified: '2026-07-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/close-brothers-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.closebrothers.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/close-brothers
- type: Support
  url: https://www.closebrothers.com/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.closebrothers.com/legal
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.closebrothers.com/cookies-privacy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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