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KOHO

KOHO is a Canadian financial-technology company (neobank) founded in 2014 by Daniel Eberhard and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, serving more than 2.5 million Canadians through a mobile-first money app. KOHO is not a chartered bank; it issues a KOHO Mastercard prepaid card through KOHO Financial Inc. and places customer balances in trust with CDIC-member institutions (its longstanding banking partner is Peoples Trust Company), while offering high-interest savings, cash back, credit building, Cover cash advances, and Pay Later. The company is in the final stages of pursuing a federal Schedule I banking licence, which would make it one of Canada's first new federally regulated banks in decades, and in May 2026 it joined the Interac e-Transfer network directly as a Participant under the broadened access for Payment Service Providers. On the open-finance front, KOHO exposes no first-party public developer API or portal; consumer account and transaction data access today is available only through third-party aggregators (Plaid and Flinks), consistent with Canada's voluntary, not-yet-operational Consumer-Driven Banking framework.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles KOHO the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — KOHO scores 24.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 24.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Regulatory · Banking & Open Finance 8.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile KOHO

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for KOHO. 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.

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.

Koho Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Koho Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Koho Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for KOHO — 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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