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Banking as a Service

Score 23.3 / 100 72 providers +1 via APIs 27 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (72)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 14 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (27)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 17 Limited public surface area
Green Dot Accounts & Users APIAccount and user management endpoints for the BaaS platform: retrieve and update account details, manage ac...36.5Green Dot ACH APIACH APIs support ACH transfers into and out of BaaS accounts, including retrieval and filtering of ACH tran...36.5Green Dot ATM & Retail Locators APIATM & Retail Locator APIs locate nearby ATMs and Green Dot retail locations for cash deposits, withdrawals,...36.5Green Dot BillPay APIThe BillPay API enables bill payment functionality within partner applications, allowing end users to pay b...36.5Green Dot Cash Deposits & eCash APICash Deposits and Payments APIs — Green Dot's retail cash network capability — let end users add cash or ma...36.5Green Dot Cashback Rewards APICashback Rewards APIs manage cashback rewards programs on partner accounts — creating and managing rewards,...36.5Green Dot Closed Loop P2P APIClosed Loop P2P (Peer-to-Peer) APIs move money between two account holders within the same program. Endpoin...36.5Green Dot Customer Care APICustomer Care APIs create and manage customer support cases, customize UI for customer support, and enable ...36.5Green Dot Disbursements APIThe Disbursements API supports paying out funds to recipients — creating recipients, linking payee accounts...36.5Green Dot Enrollments APIThe Enrollments API is typically the first API used in a partner integration and establishes the initial ba...36.5Green Dot External Card Management APIExternal Card Management APIs let account holders link, list, and remove external debit or credit cards, an...36.5Green Dot Interest Rate & Accrued Interest APIInterest Rate APIs add and manage interest rates on primary and savings purses and process accrued-interest...36.5Green Dot MRDC (Mobile Check Deposit) APIMRDC (Mobile Remote Deposit Capture) APIs manage mobile check deposits — submitting checks, retrieving MRDC...36.5Green Dot Payment Instruments APIPayment Instruments APIs manage the cards and tokens tied to an account — issuing and managing payment inst...36.5Green Dot Transaction History APITransaction history and enrichment endpoints for retrieving posted and pending transactions on an account, ...36.5Green Dot Transfers & Money Movement APITransfers APIs enable customers to move funds to and from internal accounts, purses, and external bank acco...36.5Green Dot Webhooks & Event NotificationsWebhooks provide asynchronous event notifications to partner systems for account updates, transactions, and...36.5
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (1)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Banking as a Service” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

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Score breakdown

Frequency
53.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
37.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
12.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Card Issuing 20 co-occurrences Embedded Finance 35 co-occurrences Cards 24 co-occurrences ACH 13 co-occurrences Boleto 6 co-occurrences Pix 7 co-occurrences Core Banking 6 co-occurrences Digital Banking 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag72
Api tag27

Cohort brief

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The 69 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Banking as a Service, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
69
all scored
Mean Kin Score
33.7
+9.7 vs catalog 24
Mean Agent Readiness
20.8
+8.4 vs catalog 12.4
Spread
1.5–72.3
median 35.5 · σ 18.6
How the 69 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 8Developing 20Thin 15Emerging 12Minimal 12
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 38.5 23.4 +15.1 69
Contract Quality 32.9 20.1 +12.8 69
Operational Transparency 23.9 14 +9.9 69
Discoverability 69.2 61 +8.2 69
Contract Governance 9.9 6.5 +3.4 69
Access Clarity 27.1 26.5 +0.6 69

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 13% 10% +3
MCP server (first-party) 16% 13% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 19% 11% +8
Security 99% 96% +3
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 4% 13% -9

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Efí Pay (Gerencianet) 72.3
  2. 2 Highnote 71.8
  3. 3 SoFi Technologies 60
  4. 4 Weavr 59.4
  5. 5 NovoPayment 58.9
  6. 6 Algbra 55.4
  7. 7 Lithic 55.3
  8. 8 Jiko 55.1
  9. 9 The Bank of London 54.5
  10. 10 Griffin 54.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 SoFi Technologies 52.6
  2. 2 Modulr 49.7
  3. 3 Weavr 46.7
  4. 4 Fifth Third Bancorp 43.7
  5. 5 Customers Bank 43.6
  6. 6 lemon.markets 41.5
  7. 7 Lead Bank 40.9
  8. 8 The Bank of London 39.3
  9. 9 Algbra 38.7
  10. 10 Uzum 38.7
All 72 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 20 September 2026, across 27620 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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