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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.

52.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 81/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
4 APIs 1 MCP Servers
Financial ServicesBankingPrivate BankWealth ManagementOpen BankingPSD2OBIEFAPIPaymentsAccount InformationUnited Kingdom

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 52.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 81/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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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

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

coutts-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

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

Coutts Authentication

oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Coutts Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Coutts Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Coutts Scopes

3 scopes · clientCredentials/authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Coutts Agentic Access

74 operations · 20 acting

74 operations · 20 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: coutts
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coutts/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Coutts
kind: company
description: 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.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Private Bank
- Wealth Management
- Open Banking
- PSD2
- OBIE
- FAPI
- Payments
- Account Information
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-07-23'
modified: '2026-07-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: coutts:coutts-account-transaction-api
  name: Coutts Account and Transaction Information API
  description: OBIE Read/Write Account and Transaction Information (AIS) API for Coutts, letting FCA-authorised AISPs retrieve
    account, balance, transaction, party, standing order, direct debit, beneficiary, product and statement data with the customer's
    consent. Conforms to the OBIE Read/Write Standard and is secured with FAPI OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS and PSD2 strong customer
    authentication.
  humanURL: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  baseURL: https://api.coutts.com/open-banking/v3.1/aisp
  tags:
  - Account Information
  - AIS
  - Open Banking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coutts-account-info-openapi.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/documentation
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/coutts-account-info-overlay.yaml
- aid: coutts:coutts-payment-initiation-api
  name: Coutts Payment Initiation API
  description: 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 the account holder. Conforms to the OBIE Read/Write Standard
    and is secured with FAPI OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS and PSD2 strong customer authentication.
  humanURL: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  baseURL: https://api.coutts.com/open-banking/v3.1/pisp
  tags:
  - Payment Initiation
  - PIS
  - Payments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coutts-payment-initiation-openapi.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/documentation
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/coutts-payment-initiation-overlay.yaml
- aid: coutts:coutts-confirmation-of-funds-api
  name: Coutts Confirmation of Funds API
  description: 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 before a transaction. Conforms to the OBIE Read/Write
    Standard and is secured with FAPI OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS and PSD2 strong customer authentication.
  humanURL: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  baseURL: https://api.coutts.com/open-banking/v3.1/cbpii
  tags:
  - Confirmation of Funds
  - CBPII
  - Open Banking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coutts-confirmation-funds-openapi.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/documentation
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/coutts-confirmation-funds-overlay.yaml
- aid: coutts:coutts-open-data-api
  name: Coutts Open Data API
  description: OBIE Open Data API for Coutts publishing PUBLIC, unauthenticated reference data for its commercial/business
    current account products, following the Open Banking Open Data Standard. As a private bank Coutts operates no retail ATM
    or branch network, so it publishes product reference data rather than ATM/Branch locator data. Base path shown follows
    the OBIE Open Data path convention; the exact live open-data URL was not confirmed unauthenticated (the api.coutts.com
    gateway is mutual-TLS gated).
  humanURL: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  baseURL: https://api.coutts.com/open-banking/v2.3/business-current-accounts
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Business Current Accounts
  - Open Banking
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/35240/TVCiUmZV
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/coutts-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/coutts-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/coutts-agentic-access.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/coutts-scopes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/coutts-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.coutts.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.bankofapis.com/products/coutts-open-banking
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bankofapis.com/documentation
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://developer.coutts.useinfinite.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bankofapis
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coutts-and-co
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.coutts.com/insights.html
- type: Support
  url: https://www.coutts.com/help-centre.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.bankofapis.com/performance/service-interruptions
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.coutts.com/important-information.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.coutts.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy.html
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/coutts-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/coutts-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.coutts.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/coutts-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/coutts-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/coutts-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/coutts-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/coutts-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/coutts-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/coutts-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/coutts-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/coutts-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.bankofapis.com/get-started
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com