More clickable, shared and discussed APIs of ProgrammableWeb of 2018: payments, banks, blockchain and finance

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In this part of the most interesting APIs added to ProgammableWeb in the 2018 series, we cover the APIs in the financial sector. These include Banking, Shares, Insurances, Payments, Currency, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain.

The highlights of the FinTech sector include dozens of recently available Open Banking APIs, probably encouraged by the specific open APIs and data standards from the UK Open Banking Initiative. Open Banking APIs and other developer resources have been released by several companies around the world, including Monzo, Royal Bank of Canada, Forty Seven Bank, Payments NZ, Nations Trust Bank (Sri Lanka), Revolut, Bud, Monetary authority of Hong Kong, ID Co, Equity Bank (Kenya), BBVA and Xero.

An increase in the interest and availability of the insurance APIs was also significant in 2018, including additions to our list of life insurance, health, home, car, financial and renters APIs. The government is working to modernize Medicare and Medicaid with APIs. The technology-based Clearcover auto insurance provider provides APIs to sell and purchase auto insurance.

The payment APIs have been added by large companies (Apple and Stripe) and small ones. And the APIs that enable cryptocurrency payments are becoming more common.

That's right, it seems like the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technologies are here to stay. Or at least some companies are paying enough attention to ensure that an entire company does not provide tools for blockchain technology. Although not everyone is on board (Stripe pulled support for Bitcoin in January), the large amount of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain APIs entered in our directory last year shows that the industry is experiencing a surge, with no end in sight. view.

The following are the financial APIs that have reached the peak of our interest or interest of users, sufficient to make the cut. Did we lose someone? let us know!

Banking

Royal Bank of Canada launched the RBC developer portal that includes a set of banking APIs and developer sandboxes. The APIs include the RBC Branch Locator APIKeep track of this API, RBC Amortization Schedule API, RBC Minimum Down Payment APIKeep track of this API and many others.

Program for developers of Deutsche Bank provides tools to build digital products for the investment banking company based in Germany and was presented in an article on building large bank API portals. The Deutsche Bank APIKeep track of this API allows users to access personal information such as addresses, date of birth, nationality, view customer transaction information, verify a customer's age, and more.

OpenWrks provides Open Banking tools and services. The OpenWrks Surface APIKeep track of this API is a RESTful service that provides access to OpenWrks customer data. It is a stable, backward-compatible API compliant with the open bank implementation agency (OBIE). API endpoints are available for users, accounts, transactions and more. The API eliminates the need to work with multiple banks and account providers.

Several Citibank The APIs were added to our directory in the Banking category last year. These include the Citibank account APIKeep track of this API to retrieve the Citi customer account and transaction information, Citibank Authorize APIKeep track of this API to allow Citi's customers to grant access to their account information. Citibank customer APIsKeep track of this API retrieves basic Citi customer information such as name, mailing address, email address and telephone numbers. Also added: Citibank Cards APIKeep track of this API allows customers to block a lost or stolen credit card, notify Citi of upcoming travel plans and limit credit.Keep track of this API allows users to move money within the market. A Citibank Onboarding APIKeep track of this API, Citibank Pay with Points APIKeep track of this APIand Citibank Utilities APKeep track of this APII am also available.

Kuveyt Turk is a Turkish provider of financial products and services including internet banking services. Kuveyt Turk offers an API market with tools for developers to create their own financial applications. Several of these APIs have been added to our Financial category, and the main innovations include: Kuveyt Turk Accounts APIKeep track of this API allows the developer's customers to list their accounts, check their balances and check account activity for the last 7 days. Money transfer API Kuveyt TurkKeep track of this API, Kuveyt Turk Loans / Funding APIKeep track of this APIand API Kuveyt Turk FundsKeep track of this API they have also been added.

Jenga is a payment gateway served through Finserve Africa, which offers fintech services to the Equity bank and others. The Jenga APIKeep track of this API provides connections to multiple telcos, mobile portfolios, card associations, governments, credit agencies and banks. Allows users to send money, receive money, check balances and account statements, open accounts and more. Allows companies to accept payments, collect payment information, and create charges.

Blend is a technology provider for brokers and loan teams. Blend offers tools that reduce lending cycles and incorporates intelligent conditioning that automatically requires financial data such as bank statements, business licenses, and credit checks. Current credit institutions can extend their brand digitally and improve efficiency. The Blend APIKeep track of this API is accessible indirectly with the provided SDK Go.

CapitalOne Virtual Card Numbers APIKeep track of this API returns JSON data with simulated virtual card numbers. With the API, developers can create a virtual card, replace a physical card, retrieve the virtual card details and report the merchant's activity by starting production in the sandbox. Also from Capital One, the API Capital One Money MovementKeep track of this API allows users to manage customer transfers between Capital One accounts or between Capital One and non-Capital One accounts. Sign up with Capital One APIKeep track of this API returns JSON responses to verify customers. Check with Capital One APIKeep track of this API allows applications to match personal information to be verified by a Capital One customer. Capital One Numbers API from Capital OneKeep track of this API returns JSON data to simulate the use of a virtual card number instead of a physical card.

Erste Group is a provider of banking services in Central and Eastern Europe. Česká spořitelna is a Czech bank and is part of the Erste group. The company developer portal was identified in our article on "Great Banking API Portal". Some APIs provided by the bank have been added to the directory as: Erste Group Exchange Rates APIKeep track of this API provides a REST interface that allows access to currently valid and historical exchange rates for the previous 2 years. Erste Group Places APIKeep track of this API provides a REST interface to access Česká spořitelna, information on the location of the POI. Erste Group Know the customer's APIKeep track of this API is a REST service that provides verification of Ceska Sporitelna's customers. Erste Group mortgage calculator APIKeep track of this API provides a REST with access to the basic mortgage calculations of Česká spořitelna.

Barclays provides banking services in the United Kingdom and the United States. We recently added several APIs from the company, including the Barclays Payment Initiation APIKeep track of this API allows users to initiate a single and immediate transfer of funds without a warrant. Barclays Product Details APIKeep track of this API to discover various financial products offered by Barclays including personal accounts, loan products to SMEs, corporate current accounts, commercial credit cards and more. Barclays consensus APIKeep track of this API fpr the authorization granted to third party suppliers (TPP). Barclays ATM Finder APIKeep track of this API and the Barclays Account and Transactions APIKeep track of this API also available.

Yapily provides developers with tools to connect to banks to create banking applications. The Yapily APIKeep track of this API allows developers to connect to multiple banks to retrieve normalized data for use in their applications and services. The Yapily test environment includes a series of connections to the sandbox bank APIs that allow developers to simulate a connected application and accelerate their development. Also available are SDKs, code examples, and JSON Swagger.

Kontomatik provides data integration and analysis tools for the financial sector. The Kontomatik Lending APIKeep track of this API returns the bank loan details. Users can retrieve immediate calculations, view raw data and retrieve aggregate financial values. The API works with screen-scraped data and analyzed PDF data.

Lenddo provides financial products such as identity verification and credit score. LenddoScore APIKeep track of this API it can be integrated into applications to predict credit scores in order to reduce risk and approve applications. Lenddo Verification offers a quick way to verify the veracity of the information reported.

Stock and foreign exchange

OFX is a global provider of money transfers abroad. The OFX Payments APIKeep track of this API allows users to get exchange rates on all their automated international payments, allows cross-border payments using global currency markets and more. An OFX notification APIKeep track of this API it is also available.

Alpha Vantage provides services for the recovery of stocks, currency, cryptocurrency in real time and historical data. The Alpha Vantage APIKeep track of this API allows developers to integrate financial market data for shares, foreign currencies (FX), physical currencies and cryptocurrencies, technical indicators and other types of data in third-party applications.

BankersAlgo Currency conversion APIKeep track of this API provides exchange rates and conversions in real time. Covers 168 currencies, including Bitcoin. BankersAlgo uses European Central Bank rates as a reference and exchange rate data is updated every 10 minutes.

Forex Capital Markets (FXCM) is a 24-hour online trading platform for ForEx (Foreign Exchange), oil, gold and more. The REST Socket FXCM APIKeep track of this API allows users to create a custom trading application for integration with the FXCM platform to back up and create automated trading strategies.

Live-Rates.com provides Forex (exchange rate) rates in machine-readable formats. The Live-Rates APIKeep track of this API returns the Forex rates filtered in JSON and XML formats. Rates are updated in real time and each currency pair includes the timestamp when it has been updated. This platform is intended for integration with e-commerce systems, brokers and casinos.

tink is a financial data platform that offers account aggregation, payment initiation, transaction categorization and personal financial management. Developers can integrate with the Tink APIKeep track of this API and gain access to consumer account data from Nordic banks and financial institutions. The Tink API follows a REST approach and returns information in JSON.

Insurance

Haven Life provides easy to purchase online life insurance. The company recently announced that it would offer API access to its term life insurance purchase system. The Haven LifeKeep track of this API API integrates Haven Life in any website or application.

GoCompare it is a comparison service for the choice of financial and insurance products. The GoCompare Transaction APIKeep track of this API analyzes data on a consumer's spending behavior and predicts his future buying habits. It allows developers to classify customer and credit card transactions into categories and identify merchants associated with transactions.

Urban jungle is a UK-based provider of home content insurance services for residents and urban tenants. The Urban Jungle Partners APIKeep track of this API allows partners to offer personalized insurance quotes within an application. Developers can use the API to complete an insurance purchase.

ClearCover is a technology-based auto insurance provider. The Clearcover APIKeep track of this API allows users to offer affordable car insurance online and generate new revenue while ensuring savings at the same time. The API allows partners to integrate applications with Clearcover platform data collection, view prices and view changes to hedge elections.

Clearcover API allows customers to purchase insurance

Clearcover API allows customers to purchase insurance. Image: Clearcover

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confer provides online life insurance services. The company has released the Bestow Quote REST APIKeep track of this API, which allows access to a personalized insurance quote solution. Developers can use the API to provide term life insurance quotes and sales to users on their applications. Bestow provides tools to help users with quotes or personalized coverage of the 2 to 20 year terms, from $ 50,000 to $ 500,000 and Quotes coverage.

Lifeguard provides technology that allows applications to connect with users' insurance accounts. The Lifeguard APIKeep track of this API it is in REST architecture and allows integration with transaction and account data of the main insurance institutions. Linked third-party applications can retrieve business names, street addresses, geographic coordinates, categories, and more.

Open Risk provides open source and open data-focused financial risk analysis tools. The Open Risk APIKeep track of this API provides a way to integrate risk modeling and risk modeling data to assess and manage financial risks. The API allows users to search the open risk data log, query the returns of selected models, test and validate workflows and more.

payments:

Band is an internet payments company that supports many currencies, credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Bitcoin, Alipay or Amex Express payments. The stripe emission APIKeep track of this API provides the physical and virtual card issuing infrastructure through a single API call. The API allows developers to create, control and distribute physical and virtual cards. Provides a way to manage cards, set authorization checks, limit dispute and expense purchases.

Dream payments is a provider of cloud payment solutions. The Dream Payments APIKeep track of this API provides a payment platform plus a programmatic interface for insurers to manage payment recipients and issue digital credit payments. Developers can create applications to accept payments, integrate digital claims payments into applications, integrate supplier payments into supplier management systems, transfer digital payment data to financial reconciliation processes, and more.

Envoice allows users to accept payments from Paypal, Stripe, Payoneer, Square and Klik & Pay and can also manage debit and credit cards. The Envoice APIKeep track of this API allows developers to automate the billing process. It can be used to perform basic creation, reading, updating, deleting (CRUD) operations on invoices, as well as to change or check the status of an invoice.

I will pass is a global electronic payment system for merchants and developers. The Sparrow Services APIKeep track of this API provides payment transaction functionality for applications. It allows merchants to link order management, the shopping cart or the device on the card to the payment gateway for processing. Available API methods include; Sale, authorization, acquisition, cancellation, reimbursement and more.

Forex / Shares / Trading

Tap Payments it is a payment service that focuses on business owners and consumers in the Middle East. The Tap Merchant Payments APIKeep track of this API You can log in to collect payment details using methods to request debit or credit cards with no source item, create a refund and others.

Apple Pay Payment request APIKeep track of this API allows developers to integrate Apple Payments into Web applications. The API follows specific W3C payment requests, allowing merchants and resellers to make transactions through Apple Pay rather than alternatives such as credit / debit cards or PayPal. The API is offered via Apple's WebKit.

PayPro is a payment service provider specialized in online payment processing. The PayPro APIKeep track of this API provides a link between a server and PayPro payment systems. The API is used by vendors to call PayPro systems to process payments, without the customer noticing it from PayPro. PayPro is based in Groningen, the Netherlands and offers payment methods for PayPal, Visa, WeChat Pay, MasterCard, iDEAL, AfterPay and more.

Crypto / Blockchain

Poet it is a decentralized platform for managing creative resources. It is a shared, open, blockchain-protected network designed to record metadata and property information for digital creativity resources. The API Po.et FrostKeep track of this API allows users to develop integrations, record jobs and integrate Web applications on the Po.et network, without having to build a private key infrastructure.

BlockMarkets is a provider of cryptocurrency market data. The company recently released the BlockMarkets APIKeep track of this API, which provides real-time and historical market data from the major global cryptocurrency exchanges, including tick data, spot rates USD, OHLCV and VWAP since 2010 for over 500 cryptoassets.

Kaleido provides a corporate SaaS that simplifies the creation and operation of private blockchain networks. The Kaleido APIKeep track of this API it is a RESTful interface for resource management, chain analysis and event monitoring, with endpoints only accessible to administrative users with a valid API key.

Zloadr it is an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) evaluation platform. The Zloadr Professional APIKeep track of this API offers JSON data related to the legal structures of cryptocurrency resources, performance and longevity of resources. The API provides methods for historical cryptocurrency data, the most recent market quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies, the listing of market pairs and more.

Frame network allows developers to create commercial blockchain applications on Ethereum. Loom indirect APIKeep track of this API allows developers to access the Loom Unity SDK, Loom Go SDK, Loom RPC Go SDK and Loom JavaScript SDK to facilitate the integration of DAppChain with the Loom network. Online games can benefit from trading tokens, avoiding the scarcity of objects and getting compatibility with the eternal worlds. Social media applications can be monetized with karma tokens.

Wyre provides cryptocurrency payment solutions. Wyre's APIKeep track of this API is a REST service that supports bank transfers, mass international payments, cryptocurrency portfolio management and virtual banking services for your personal or business needs. Allows applications to convert large volumes of currency and developers can onboard and manage users in a compliant manner, linking customer bank accounts and more.

CryptoStandardizer provides a way to standardize the Cryptocurrency exchange symbols. The CryptoStandardizer APIKeep track of this API can standardize coin symbols from over 100 exchanges. It also provides data on enriched coins, such as market capitalization, total bid, percentage change, daily volume and more.

CryptoStandardizer returns standard encryption symbols and other data

CryptoStandardizer returns standard encryption symbols and other data. Image: CryptoStandardizer

CryptoControl.io is a cryptocurrency news aggregator that allows users to keep track of the news on bitcoin, litecoin and many others. CryptoControl covers over 5,000 articles a day from over 1000 news sources. Use specialized AI to understand the context of each article and assign coins and categories to each article. Use the CryptoControl APIKeep track of this API access programming to the news engine and retrieve news by currency, by category, by latest news and more.

DMarket it is a blockchain games market to transform virtual gaming objects into tangible real assets. The Steam Skins DMarket trading APIKeep track of this API allows users to optimize and automate the process of trading game objects on Steam. With API operators you can add resources to the market, sell items, purchase items and more.

AI vectors space the platform provides cryptocurrency trading and ETF investment (exchange-traded funds) based on the processing of natural language and sentiment analysis algorithms. The AI ​​API of VectorspaceKeep track of this API returns JSON data related to global trends, concepts and arguments of cryptocurrency.

ACINQ is a company focused on the scalability of Bitcoin. ACINQ & # 39; s Strike is a Stripe-like API for Lightning Network payment services. The Strike APIKeep track of this API it is in REST architecture and returns bitcoin and cryptocurrency data with API methods for creating and managing charges.

BitcoinAverage is a data service that provides the weighted average price of Bitcoin for all major currencies. The Websocket API of BitcoinAverage EnterpriseKeep track of this API provides quick updates regarding tickers and exchange prices. Get data driven by one or more indexes or exchanges and ticker data for multiple symbols with the API.

Ontology is a public blockchain provider that can be customized for different industries. The Ontology project is public, collaborative and designed to add a level of trust to the blockchain networks. The ontology APIKeep track of this API returns JSON data related to transactions, block-by-block height, and more. This is a REST-based API that accepts CRUD operations.

Switcheo is a cryptocurrency exchange platform for NEP-5 token exchanges built on the NEO platform. The Switcheo exchange APIKeep track of this API provides exchange history, statistics and other data and can be used to perform operations. Features are available for tickers, offers, exchanges, deposits, withdrawals, orders, balances and more.

coinlayer provides data on the cryptocurrency market for developers. REST of the coinlayerKeep track of this API offers chronological or real-time cryptocurrency exchange rates in JSON format. Data is returned from 25 exchanges worldwide for more than 385 coins and is accessible via any programming language, framework and device.

Get cryptocurrency data updated with the coinplayer API

Get cryptocurrency data updated with the coinplayer API. Image: coinlayer

Hydrogen platform provides API for creating financial applications with blockchain and AI functionality. API Hydrogen HydroKeep track of this API allows applications to interface with Hydro's intelligent contracts using different modular levels of blockchain functionality. Provides a server-side authentication protocol for databases, APIs and large systems, as well as a client-side multi-factor authentication protocol for individual user accounts. Hydrogen ion APIKeep track of this API allows data scientists to pre-process data sets and to train and evaluate models with machine learning. Hydrogen atomKeep track of this API allows developers to create powerful digital savings, investment, insurance and wellness applications.

Casper provides decentralized data storage with a high rate of file downloads / uploads, encryption of archived files and access to shared files. Casper is based on Ethereum and other blockchain platforms that support smart contracts. The Casper APIKeep track of this API allows users to upload all types of files to a cloud service and access them from any device.

Mineralt is an online cryptocurrency miner. The JavaScript Mineralt APIKeep track of this API allows users to extract cryptocurrency online, using a website or the CPU power of the mobile application visitor. Provides a way to control the execution of the mining script and provides several API methods that includes; start, stop, setlf miner and more. This API is indirect access to the SMK JavaScript Mineralt and the Mineralt Android API.

Use the Mineralt API and SDKs to create your own online mining affiliate programs

Use the Mineralt API and SDKs to create your own online mining affiliate programs. Image: Mineralt.io

HBUS it is an open market for cryptocurrencies. The HBUS APIKeep track of this API supports all trading pairs including Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum on the HBUS website. API methods are available to manage the market, the public, the account, the trade and the withdrawal. An & # 39; websocket HBUS APIKeep track of this API it is also available for subscriptions and to receive updates on any changes to an HBUS topic.

Squarelink is an access tool for blockchain applications that allows users to securely recover private keys. The Squarelink APIKeep track of this API provides users with a way to access accounts and sign transactions with the user's permission. The Squarelink API allows developers to interact with Squarelink user accounts with methods for wallet information, personal information, and transaction data.

Stronghold provides a distributed exchange platform built on the stellar network for digital currency. The company provides APIs for digital payments and commercial integration including the API Stronghold AccountsKeep track of this API, API Stronghold PaymentsKeep track of this API, API Stronghold TradeKeep track of this API, API Stronghold Identity & Access ManagementKeep track of this API, API Stronghold VenuesKeep track of this API, Stronghold Anchor APIKeep track of this API, API of Stronghold AssetsKeep track of this API, Stronghold Get to know the customer profiles APIKeep track of this API, API Stronghold QuotesKeep track of this APIand API Stronghold UtilitiesKeep track of this API.

ChainFront helps developers to create cryptocurrency applications. The ChainFront Cloud APIKeep track of this API allows users to create accounts, configure transaction approval methods, create blockchain addresses, and more. The ChainFront API supports the JSON format and allows developers to integrate their solutions with blockchain networks including Stellar and Ethereum. This API is listed in our Blockchain category.

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