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Financial Data Exchange (FDX)

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) is a non-profit industry standards body operating in the US and Canada that produces the FDX API, a royalty-free REST standard for consumer-permissioned financial data sharing. The FDX API defines interoperable endpoints covering deposit accounts, loan accounts, investment accounts, insurance policies, tax data, payroll data, reward programs, and consent management, enabling data providers (financial institutions), data access platforms (aggregators), and data recipients (fintechs) to exchange consumer financial data without exposing user credentials. As of early 2026 over 130 million consumer accounts are connected via the FDX API across 200+ member organizations including Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, Plaid, and MX. FDX API v6.5 is the current stable release.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Financial Data Exchange (FDX) the way a machine reads it — 105 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Financial Data Exchange (FDX) scores 57.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Banking & Open Finance 11.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Financial Data Exchange (FDX)

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Financial Data Exchange (FDX). 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 12

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.

FDX Transactions API

RESTful endpoints for retrieving consumer transaction histories including pending and posted transactions, transaction categorization, merchant data, and transaction amounts acr...

FDX Investment API

RESTful endpoints for retrieving investment account data including holdings, positions, investment transactions, cost basis, and portfolio composition. Covers brokerage, retirem...

FDX Insurance API

RESTful endpoints for retrieving insurance policy information including policy coverage details, premium schedules, claims history, and beneficiary data under the FDX insurance ...

FDX Tax API

RESTful endpoints for retrieving consumer tax data including tax document metadata and structured tax form data (1099s, W-2s, and related forms) as defined by the FDX US Tax Dat...

FDX Payroll API

RESTful endpoints introduced in FDX API v6.0 for retrieving permissioned payroll data including employment records, pay stubs, income verification, and direct deposit details, s...

FDX Consent API

RESTful endpoints implementing the FDX Consent API Behavioral Specification for managing user permissions and consent events. Enables data recipients to initiate consent, query ...

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Account Statements API

Search and retrieve account statements

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Account Transactions API

Search and view account transactions

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Asset Transfer Networks Information API

Search and view asset transfer networks networks

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Payment Networks Information API

Search and view account payment networks

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) Personal Information API

Search and view customer or customers

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

FDX GraphQL Schema

name: FDX GraphQL Schema

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Fdx Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Fdx Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Fdx Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

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

Fdx Context

28 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Financial Data Exchange (FDX) API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 83

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

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

Account Category type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account Contact entity

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account Descriptor entity

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account Holder entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account Holder Relationship

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment Networks entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Accounts entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account Status

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Account With Details entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Address

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnnuityAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnnuityAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset Transfer Network

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset Transfer Networks

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset Transfer Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CommercialAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CommercialAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Content Types

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Currency entity

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer entity.

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer Name entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer entity

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Date String

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DebitCreditMemo

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Delivery Address

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Delivery Address Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit Account Details entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DepositAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DepositAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit Transaction entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DigitalWalletDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DigitalWalletType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FI Attribute entity

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HATEOAS Link

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HATEOAS links array

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Holding entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Holding SubType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Holding Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTP action type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Identifier

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Individual name

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InsuranceAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InsuranceAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Interest Rate Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvestmentAccount

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvestmentAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvestmentAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Investment Transaction entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Investment Transaction Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ISO 3166 Country Code

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ISO 4217 Code

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineOfCreditAccount

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineOfCreditAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineOfCreditAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Line-Of-Credit Transaction entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Line-Of-Credit Transaction Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Loan Account entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoanAccountDescriptor

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoanAccountType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Loan Transaction entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Loan Transaction Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Page Metadata

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Paginated Array

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment Network Supported by Account

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment Network Identifier Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment Network Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security ID entity

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security ID Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Statement entity

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Statement PDF

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Statements entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

String 255

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

String 64

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Telephone Network

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Telephone Number

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Telephone Number Purpose

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Timestamp

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transactions entity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction Status

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Unit Type

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

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.

Fdx Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Fdx Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Fdx Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Fdx Agentic Access

27 operations

27 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Financial Data Exchange (FDX) — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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