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Lead Bank

Lead Bank is a Kansas City-chartered FDIC-insured bank operating as a sponsor bank and embedded-finance infrastructure provider for fintech partners. The platform is organized around four product pillars - Lend (term loans, lines of credit, BNPL, in-app financing), Move (ACH, instant payments, wires, international wires, stablecoin transfers, payment controls), Issue (physical and virtual credit / debit cards, custom account numbers), and Store (FDIC-insured multi-currency deposit accounts). APIs and file integrations (SFTP) are documented at docs.lead.bank but access is gated through Lead Bank's partner-onboarding process. Recognized on the Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups and CNBC Disruptor 50 lists.

agent native

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Lead Bank the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Lead Bank scores 33.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Lead Bank Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Lead Bank

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lead 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 22

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.

Lead Bank Lend API

Embedded-credit API supporting term loans, revolving lines of credit, in-app financing, and buy-now-pay-later products. Covers origination, underwriting, servicing, and disburse...

Lead Bank Move API

Money-movement API spanning ACH, instant payments (RTP / FedNow), domestic and international wires, stablecoin transfers, and partner-configurable payment controls.

Lead Bank Issue API

Card-issuing API for physical and virtual credit and debit cards plus custom-generated account numbers used in card-program back-ends.

Lead Bank Store API

Deposit-account API for opening and managing FDIC-insured accounts on behalf of partner-program end users, including multi-currency balances and flexible account structures.

Lead Bank File Integrations (SFTP)

File-based integration channel over SFTP for partners that ingest or emit batch files (NACHA, reconciliation, settlement reports).

Lead Bank Webhooks

Outbound webhook events covering account, payment, card, and lending lifecycle changes. Endpoints configured per partner program.

Lead Bank Account Number API

The Account Number API from Lead Bank — 7 operation(s) for account number.

Lead Bank ACH API

The ACH API from Lead Bank — 5 operation(s) for ach.

Lead Bank Blockchain Payment API

The Blockchain Payment API from Lead Bank — 2 operation(s) for blockchain payment.

Lead Bank Compliance API

The Compliance API from Lead Bank — 11 operation(s) for compliance.

Lead Bank Entity API

The Entity API from Lead Bank — 2 operation(s) for entity.

Lead Bank Events API

The Events API from Lead Bank — 2 operation(s) for events.

Lead Bank Funding API

The Funding API from Lead Bank — 3 operation(s) for funding.

Lead Bank Instant Payments API

The Instant Payments API from Lead Bank — 7 operation(s) for instant payments.

Lead Bank Internal Transfer API

The Internal Transfer API from Lead Bank — 2 operation(s) for internal transfer.

Lead Bank Lending API

The Lending API from Lead Bank — 3 operation(s) for lending.

Lead Bank Lending Simulation API

The Lending Simulation API from Lead Bank — 1 operation(s) for lending simulation.

Lead Bank OAuth API

The OAuth API from Lead Bank — 1 operation(s) for oauth.

Lead Bank Originator API

The Originator API from Lead Bank — 5 operation(s) for originator.

Lead Bank Simulation API

The Simulation API from Lead Bank — 11 operation(s) for simulation.

Lead Bank Subledger Balances API

The Subledger Balances API from Lead Bank — 2 operation(s) for subledger balances.

Lead Bank Wire API

The Wire API from Lead Bank — 4 operation(s) for wire.

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Open Collections 18

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

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.

Lead Bank Rate Limits

2 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.

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.

Lead Bank Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Lead Bank Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Lead Bank Agentic Access

83 operations · 58 acting

83 operations · 58 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Lead 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Lead Bank, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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