The Co-operative Bank
The Co-operative Bank plc is a UK high-street retail and commercial bank, headquartered in Manchester and long known for its customer-led ethical banking policy. Following its 2013-2017 recapitalisation it was owned by institutional bondholders, and in January 2025 it completed its acquisition by Coventry Building Society, becoming part of the member-owned Coventry Building Society Group; it also operates the online-only "smile" brand. Authorised by the PRA and regulated by the FCA and PRA, it is an FCA-authorised ASPSP under PSD2 and the UK Open Banking regime. While it is not one of the nine CMA-mandated banks (CMA9), it implements the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) Read/Write API Standard (v3.1) and publishes a public developer portal at developer.co-operativebank.co.uk exposing Account Information (AIS), Payment Initiation (PIS), and Confirmation of Funds (CBPII) APIs for both the Co-operative Bank and smile brands, secured with FAPI-grade OAuth2/OIDC, mutual-TLS client authentication using Open Banking directory certificates, and PSD2 strong customer authentication, with a manual TPP onboarding process and a sandbox for testing before production.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles The Co-operative Bank the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — The Co-operative Bank scores 44.0/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile The Co-operative Bank
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Co-operative Bank. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
The Co-operative Bank Account Information API (AIS)
OBIE Read/Write Account & Transaction Information (AISP) API for The Co-operative Bank and smile brands — account-access consents, accounts, balances, transactions, direct debit...
The Co-operative Bank Payment Initiation API (PIS)
OBIE Read/Write Payment Initiation (PISP) API for The Co-operative Bank and smile brands — domestic payments, domestic scheduled payments and domestic standing orders, with thei...
The Co-operative Bank Confirmation of Funds API (CBPII)
OBIE Read/Write Confirmation of Funds (CBPII / Card-Based Payment Instrument) API — funds-confirmation consent and funds-confirmation checks for The Co-operative Bank and smile ...
The Co-operative Bank Open Data API (OBIE standard)
Public, unauthenticated OBIE Open Data reference data (ATMs, Branches, Personal & Business Current Accounts, Unsecured SME Loans, Commercial Credit Cards). Represented here agai...
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for The Co-operative Bank — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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