# PPL

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ppl-london-market/  
**Website:** https://placingplatformlimited.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

PPL (Placing Platform Limited) is the London Market's not-for-profit electronic placing platform, incorporated in England and Wales in 2013 and trading since the first risk was bound on the platform in July 2016. Owned collectively by the market it serves, PPL lets brokers and carriers quote, negotiate, bind and renew open-market (re)insurance risks electronically across almost all classes of business written in London, and is used by roughly 200 carriers and 200 broking firms. It is market infrastructure rather than a carrier or a broker - it writes no insurance and carries no risk - and it is one of the accredited placing platforms underpinning Lloyd's Blueprint Two, generating the Core Data Record for bound business. Its API posture is unusual for insurance and genuinely good: the PPL Next Gen API Developer Portal at developer.pplnextgen.com is publicly readable and publishes a real API catalogue of five REST collections - Organisations, Placements, Submissions, Documents and Events - each with a downloadable OpenAPI 3.0 document and a Postman collection, built on REST standards and the ACORD GRLC (Global Reinsurance and Large Commercial) data model. Actually calling the APIs is market-gated rather than self-serve: consumers must be onboarded by PPL, subscribe to LIMOSS API Common Services, be guested into the Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) tenant of the LIMOSS API Gateway, and register an X.509 certificate per environment. The surface covers quote and bind (submission negotiation, contract negotiation, participations, firm order) and contract issuance via the Market Reform Contract document set; there is no claims or FNOL API, and no webhook or event-push surface - the Events API is pull-based.

## Kin Score — 51.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 52.0 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 71.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (5)

- **PPL Placements API** — Manages the Placement structure in PPL Next Gen - Placements, Programmes, Contracts and the Sections within a Contract - together with carrier and underwriter participations, ro...
- **PPL Submissions API** — Enables underwriters to retrieve Submission requests supplied by a broker and to manage their negotiation of terms of cover, including reassignment of a negotiation and sending ...
- **PPL Organisations API** — Retrieves the organisation reference data held in the platform that is a prerequisite for interacting with Placement and Firm Order resources - broker and carrier organisations,...
- **PPL Documents API** — Manages document files and document metadata across the Placement hierarchy, including the Market Reform Contract (MRC) itself and its supporting documents, with versioning, con...
- **PPL Events API** — Retrieves informative and actionable notifications about an interested party's involvement in the placement process, plus the business transaction log for contract-related engag...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Derived candidate MCP tool surface (no server published by PPL)**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ppl London Market Agentic Access** — 67 operations · 29 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ppl London Market Authentication** — oauth2/mutualTLS · 3 schemes
- **Ppl London Market Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Insurance, United Kingdom, London Market, Lloyd's of London, Reinsurance, Commercial Insurance, Brokers, Underwriting, Placement, Market Infrastructure, ACORD, Electronic Placing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ppl-london-market/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.