RCS Capital

RCS Capital Corporation (RCAP) was a publicly traded holding company focused on the financial services industry, founded by Nicholas Schorsch and taken public in June 2013. The firm owned a diversified group of businesses including independent broker-dealers, investment banking, capital markets, and transaction management services. It assembled Cetera Financial Group to become the second largest network of independent broker-dealers in the United States, with approximately 9,100 financial advisors managing $220 billion in assets under administration for 2.5 million clients. RCS Capital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2016, citing $1.39 billion in debts, and emerged in May 2016 as Aretec Group, Inc., the holding company of Cetera Financial Group. No public developer APIs were offered under the RCS Capital brand.

RCS Capital is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Broker-Dealer, Cetera Financial Group, Defunct, Financial-Services, and Independent Advisor.

The RCS Capital catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

RCS Capital’s developer surface includes documentation, code examples, and 9 more developer resources.

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11.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Broker-DealerCetera Financial GroupDefunct Financial-ServicesIndependent AdvisorInvestment Banking Wealth Management

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 11.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 2.6 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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 7 / 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

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Rcs Capital Context

17 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

RCS Capital API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Broker-Dealer Entity

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Financial Advisor

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Rcs Capital Financial Advisor Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Rcs Capital Financial Advisor Example

16 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Rcs Capital Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

RCS Capital Sells Wholesale Unit to Apollo for $25M

2026-05-25

Brokerage RCS Capital bankruptcy to take Cetera private

2026-05-25

C. Thomas McMillen

2026-05-25

RCS Capital Corporation Completes Acquisition of Cetera ...

2026-05-25

Rcs: capital increase from 27 June to 5 July - FIRSTonline

2026-05-25

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Examples

Examples

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: rcs-capital
name: RCS Capital
description: RCS Capital Corporation (RCAP) was a publicly traded holding company focused on the financial services industry,
  founded by Nicholas Schorsch and taken public in June 2013. The firm owned a diversified group of businesses including independent
  broker-dealers, investment banking, capital markets, and transaction management services. It assembled Cetera Financial
  Group to become the second largest network of independent broker-dealers in the United States, with approximately 9,100
  financial advisors managing $220 billion in assets under administration for 2.5 million clients. RCS Capital filed for Chapter
  11 bankruptcy protection in January 2016, citing $1.39 billion in debts, and emerged in May 2016 as Aretec Group, Inc.,
  the holding company of Cetera Financial Group. No public developer APIs were offered under the RCS Capital brand.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/rcs-capital.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Broker-Dealer
- Cetera Financial Group
- Defunct
- Financial-Services
- Independent Advisor
- Investment Banking
- Wealth Management
tags_raw:
- Broker-Dealer
- Cetera Financial Group
- Defunct
- Financial Services
- Independent Advisor
- Investment Banking
- Wealth Management
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rcs-capital-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rcs-capital-inc
- type: Website
  name: RCS Capital SEC Filing Reference
  description: SEC EDGAR filing for RCS Capital Corporation.
  url: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001568832&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40
- type: Website
  name: Cetera Financial Group
  description: Successor entity to the Cetera Financial Group businesses assembled by RCS Capital. Cetera continues to operate
    as a leading network of independent broker-dealers.
  url: https://www.cetera.com
- type: Documentation
  name: RCS Capital Chapter 11 Case Information
  description: Court-maintained Chapter 11 case documents for RCS Capital restructuring.
  url: https://cases.ra.kroll.com/rcscapital/
- type: JSONSchema
  name: Financial Advisor Schema
  description: JSON Schema describing a financial advisor profile as used in independent broker-dealer networks.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rcs-capital-financial-advisor-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  name: Broker-Dealer Entity Schema
  description: JSON Schema describing a registered broker-dealer entity.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/json-schema/rcs-capital-broker-dealer-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  name: Financial Advisor Structure
  description: Field-level structure documentation for the financial advisor object.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/json-structure/rcs-capital-financial-advisor-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  name: RCS Capital JSON-LD Context
  description: JSON-LD context mapping financial services concepts to schema.org and FIBO ontology.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/json-ld/rcs-capital-context.jsonld
- type: Examples
  name: Financial Advisor Example
  description: Example financial advisor record representing the type of data managed within broker-dealer networks.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/examples/rcs-capital-financial-advisor-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
  name: RCS Capital Vocabulary
  description: Domain vocabulary for independent broker-dealer financial services concepts.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rcs-capital/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/rcs-capital-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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