Vanquis Banking Group
Vanquis Banking Group plc (formerly Provident Financial plc, rebranded 2023) is a UK specialist non-prime lender and savings bank headquartered in Bradford, England, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker VANQ and serving around 1.75 million customers under the Vanquis, Moneybarn and Snoop brands. It offers credit cards, unsecured personal loans, second-charge mortgages, retail savings (easy-access, fixed-rate, notice and ISA accounts) and consumer vehicle finance to customers underserved by mainstream lenders. Its banking subsidiary, Vanquis Bank Limited, is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register no. 221156) and, as an FCA-authorised ASPSP, is a UK Open Banking participant (not one of the CMA9). Vanquis exposes the OBIE Read/Write API family - Account and Transaction Information (AIS), Payment Initiation (PIS) and Confirmation of Funds (CBPII) at v3.1.10 - plus Dynamic Client Registration, onboarded and secured through the Open Banking Directory under the PSD2 / FAPI security profile (OAuth2/OIDC, mutual-TLS and strong customer authentication). As a credit-card and savings specialist with no branch or current-account estate, Vanquis publishes no public Open Data (ATM/Branch/PCA/BCA) API.
Vanquis Banking Group publishes 22 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Account Access API, Accounts API, Balances API, and 19 more. Tagged areas include Financial Services, Banking, Open Banking, PSD2, and OBIE.
The Vanquis Banking Group catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Vanquis Banking Group’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, support, and 25 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 3
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
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) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| EU/EEA Payment and E-Money Institutions (PSD2 passports) | undeclared | - | - | - |
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.
Standards implemented 3
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 22
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Vanquis Bank Dynamic Client Registration API
Vanquis Bank's OpenID / OBIE Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) endpoint, documented on the Vanquis developer portal, allowing onboarded Third Party Providers to register OAuth c...
Vanquis Banking Group Account Access API
The Account Access API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for account access.
Vanquis Banking Group Accounts API
The Accounts API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for accounts.
Vanquis Banking Group Balances API
The Balances API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for balances.
Vanquis Banking Group Beneficiaries API
The Beneficiaries API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for beneficiaries.
Vanquis Banking Group Direct Debits API
The Direct Debits API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for direct debits.
Vanquis Banking Group Domestic Payments API
The Domestic Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 5 operation(s) for domestic payments.
Vanquis Banking Group Domestic Scheduled Payments API
The Domestic Scheduled Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 4 operation(s) for domestic scheduled payments.
Vanquis Banking Group Domestic Standing Orders API
The Domestic Standing Orders API from Vanquis Banking Group — 4 operation(s) for domestic standing orders.
Vanquis Banking Group File Payments API
The File Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 6 operation(s) for file payments.
Vanquis Banking Group Funds Confirmations API
The Funds Confirmations API from Vanquis Banking Group — 3 operation(s) for funds confirmations.
Vanquis Banking Group International Payments API
The International Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 5 operation(s) for international payments.
Vanquis Banking Group International Scheduled Payments API
The International Scheduled Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 5 operation(s) for international scheduled payments.
Vanquis Banking Group International Standing Orders API
The International Standing Orders API from Vanquis Banking Group — 4 operation(s) for international standing orders.
Vanquis Banking Group Offers API
The Offers API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for offers.
Vanquis Banking Group Parties API
The Parties API from Vanquis Banking Group — 3 operation(s) for parties.
Vanquis Banking Group Payment Details API
The Payment Details API from Vanquis Banking Group — 7 operation(s) for payment details.
Vanquis Banking Group Products API
The Products API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for products.
Vanquis Banking Group Scheduled Payments API
The Scheduled Payments API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for scheduled payments.
Vanquis Banking Group Standing Orders API
The Standing Orders API from Vanquis Banking Group — 2 operation(s) for standing orders.
Vanquis Banking Group Statements API
The Statements API from Vanquis Banking Group — 4 operation(s) for statements.
Vanquis Banking Group Transactions API
The Transactions API from Vanquis Banking Group — 3 operation(s) for transactions.
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Agent Skills 2
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Spectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Vanquis Banking Group API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 3
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 2
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
Access & Security 3
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
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Vanquis Banking Group API — frequently asked questions
Does Vanquis Banking Group have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 22 APIs from Vanquis Banking Group, including Vanquis Bank Dynamic Client Registration API, Vanquis Banking Group Account Access API and Vanquis Banking Group Accounts API, and 19 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Vanquis Banking Group API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 21 OpenAPI specifications for Vanquis Banking Group, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Vanquis Banking Group API?
Vanquis Banking Group documents its authentication (oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Vanquis Banking Group Authentication.
Is the Vanquis Banking Group API ready for AI agents?
Vanquis Banking Group has a Kin Score of 39.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 34.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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