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Bud Financial Limited

Bud Financial Limited is a financial technology company offering digital banking solutions, including personal and business accounts, budgeting tools, and API-driven services for developers. The company focuses on providing seamless, secure, and user-friendly financial experiences through modern APIs, enabling integration with third‑party applications and services. Bud Financial aims to empower users with real‑time insights, automated savings, and flexible payment options, positioning itself as an innovative player in the fintech ecosystem.

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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 Bud Financial Limited the way a machine reads it — 58 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Bud Financial Limited scores 53.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (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

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How we profile Bud Financial Limited

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bud Financial Limited. 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 39

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.

Bud Financial Limited Aggregation Buckets API

Manage virtual "buckets" for grouping and aggregating transactions by their underlying categories. Use this for retrieving financial data for customers of the Assess Dashboard (...

Bud Financial Limited Client Secrets API

Create, list, and revoke Client Secrets used, alongside the `client_id`, to authenticate to the Bud platform via OAuth2.

Bud Financial Limited Correct Financial Data API

Manipulate Transactions held on the Bud platform by finding similar transactions and submitting corrections.

Bud Financial Limited Create a Connection API

Create a new connection to an Open Banking provider by using either: (i) Bud's configurable frontend UI (__Bud Connect__), built to maximise conversion; or (ii) Bud's individual...

Bud Financial Limited Custom Insights API

Understand and target messaging to your customers more effectively by defining your own custom insights.

Bud Financial Limited Customer Application Links API

Create a link for a customer to follow, which will allow them to connect their bank accounts and submit their financial data for the application.

Bud Financial Limited Customer Applications API

Create, retrieve and manage financial applications for customers using the Assess product. Applications created on this platform can be viewed using the Assess Dashboard to obse...

Bud Financial Limited Customer-Level Insights API

Retrieve flags and facts calculated in real time from a customer's financial data.

Bud Financial Limited Debt Collection Finder API

Find information regarding your customer's debts.

Bud Financial Limited Drive Campaigns API

Create and manage campaigns — by hand, or by describing a business goal for Drive's campaign agent to build one from — track their performance, and retrieve the customer-facing ...

Bud Financial Limited Drive MCP API

Connection URLs for Drive's remote Model Context Protocol servers, for use with AI/LLM driven agents — the general Drive copilot, and dedicated servers for segments and campaign...

Bud Financial Limited Drive Segments API

Create and manage customer segments — Drive's V1 model (fixed customer lists, criteria copied from an existing segment) and V2 model (a recursive criteria tree of flags, segment...

Bud Financial Limited Enrichment Resources API

Obtain greater context to Bud's enrichment services.

Bud Financial Limited Enrichment Totals API

Breakdown your customer's income and expenditure based on Bud's enrichments to help orientate their financial world.

Bud Financial Limited Frontend Widgets API

A collection of frontend widgets representing customer financial data.

Bud Financial Limited Income Finder API

Find information regarding your customer's income.

Bud Financial Limited Ingest First Party Data API

Initiate the asynchronous process of pushing a customer's account information (i.e. first party data) onto the Bud platform. These asynchronous requests create a task to store t...

Bud Financial Limited Initiate Payment - Bud license API

Authenticates and securely creates a new payment from a customer’s chosen account(s) using Bud's regulatory licence as a [Third Party Provider (TPP)](https://www.openbanking.org...

Bud Financial Limited Initiate Payment - Client license API

Authenticates and securely creates a new payment from a customer’s chosen account(s) using your organisation's regulatory permission as a Payment Initiation Service Provider (PI...

Bud Financial Limited Loan Finder API

Find information regarding your customer's loans.

Bud Financial Limited Manage a Connection API

Different endpoints that allow to to manage an existing customer connection. This includes the ability to: (i) Refresh the data associated with a given connection, pulling in th...

Bud Financial Limited Manage Customers API

Manage the number of customers registered onto the Bud platform.

Bud Financial Limited Manage Financial Data API

Manipulate Transactions held on the Bud platform by removing data, submitting corrections, or adding tags through different rulesets.

Bud Financial Limited Manage Payments API

Manage payments to initiated through Bud's Payments API

Bud Financial Limited Manage Transaction Labels API

Create, list, rename, and delete customer-authored labels that can be attached to transactions. Labels are customer-defined strings used to group transactions in ways that are m...

Bud Financial Limited MCP (Model Context Protocol) API

Allows an MCP Client to connect to Bud API endpoints as tools. Currently in beta

Bud Financial Limited O Auth2 API

Retrieve and manage access and refresh tokens to authenticate to the Bud platform via OAuth2 protocol.

Bud Financial Limited Product Finder API

Find information regarding your customer's financial products.

Bud Financial Limited Regular Payments Finder API

Find information relating to any regularity found across certain groups of transactions within your customer's accounts.

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Actionable Insights API

Retrieve a customer's actionable insights generated from their financial data.

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Affordability Report API

Breakdown your customer's transactions by fixed/flexible spend and discretionary vs non discretionary high-level totals.

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Affordability Report V2 API

Breakdown your customer's transactions by fixed/flexible spend and discretionary vs non discretionary high-level totals. Retrieve Affordability Report V2 endpoints are designed ...

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Affordability Risk Insights API

Retrieve a customer's report insights generated from their financial data. In contrast to the alert style actionable insights, these insights should be used more as a summary.

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Customer Characteristics API

Retrieve Characteristics associated with an individual Customer based on their financial data.

Bud Financial Limited Retrieve Financial Data API

Retrieve a customer's financial data from a range of sources.

Bud Financial Limited Savings Goals V2 API

Savings goals management API V2.

Bud Financial Limited Spending Budgets API

Spending budgets management API.

Bud Financial Limited Subscription Finder API

Find information regarding your customer's subscriptions.

Bud Financial Limited Transaction Search API

Allows customers to search & ask questions about their financial transactions.

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Agent Skills 4

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

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.

Thisisbud Context

85 classes · 155 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.

Bud Financial Limited API Rules

17 rules · 11 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

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.

Get Balances Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Get Balances Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Patch Spending Budget

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

21 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.

Thisisbud Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Thisisbud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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.

Thisisbud Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 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.

Thisisbud Agentic Access

216 operations · 97 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

216 operations · 97 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bud Financial Limited — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

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 Bud Financial Limited, 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.

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