Coutts
Coutts & Co is a British private bank and wealth manager founded in 1692, headquartered in London and serving high-net-worth individuals, families, commercial and institutional clients. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of NatWest Group (formerly The Royal Bank of Scotland Group), one of the UK CMA9 banking groups mandated to deliver Open Banking. Coutts is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA (FCA Firm Reference 001b000000MfEueAAF). As an Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (ASPSP) it participates in UK Open Banking under PSD2, exposing its account, payment and confirmation-of-funds surfaces through NatWest Group's "Bank of APIs" developer platform. Those Read/Write APIs conform to the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) Read/Write Standard and are secured with FAPI-grade OAuth2/OIDC, PSD2 strong customer authentication, and mutual-TLS client authentication using OBIE/eIDAS certificates. Coutts additionally publishes OBIE Open Data reference information for its commercial/business current accounts.
Coutts publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Account and Transaction Information API, Payment Initiation API, and Confirmation of Funds API. Tagged areas include Financial Services, Banking, Private Bank, Wealth Management, and Open Banking.
Coutts’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, sandbox, engineering blog, support, getting-started guide, and 24 more developer resources.
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APIs 4
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Coutts Account and Transaction Information API
OBIE Read/Write Account and Transaction Information (AIS) API for Coutts, letting FCA-authorised AISPs retrieve account, balance, transaction, party, standing order, direct debi...
Coutts Payment Initiation API
OBIE Read/Write Payment Initiation (PIS) API for Coutts, letting FCA-authorised PISPs initiate domestic, scheduled, standing-order, international and file payments on behalf of ...
Coutts Confirmation of Funds API
OBIE Read/Write Confirmation of Funds (CBPII) API for Coutts, letting authorised Card Based Payment Instrument Issuers check whether sufficient funds are available on an account...
Coutts Open Data API
OBIE Open Data API for Coutts publishing PUBLIC, unauthenticated reference data for its commercial/business current account products, following the Open Banking Open Data Standa...
MCP Servers 1
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MCP SERVERSecurity Posture 3
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Get Started 3
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Documentation 1
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Design & Contract 6
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Build 1
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Access & Security 6
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Operate 3
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Commercial 2
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Company 3
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