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Daily API RoundUp: AlienVault, Forty Seven, FXCM, DeepL
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Translation, Hosting, and Machine Learning. Featured today is an API for adding elevation location to applications and an API for integrating two-factor authentication. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
03-29-2018
Payments NZ Announced Open Banking API Pilots
Payments NZ, a governance organization that helps oversee New Zealand's payments system, has announced a pilot of two new open banking APIs. One will allow developers to access account data and the other will allow developers to connect directly to banks to make credit payments.
03-28-2018
Bottomline Technologies Launches New Paymode-X APIs
Bottomline Technologies, a provider of financial technology that aims to help make business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced the release of a new set of APIs to enable connectivity for banks, corporate clients, and other third-parties to the company’s Paymode-X platform.
03-24-2018
Forty Seven Bank Launches API to Support Financial Applications
Forty Seven Bank continues its move to modernize banking. In the midst of its initial coin offering, it has released a PSD2 compliant API that developers can use to build banking apps. API features run the gamut of banking services. Forty Seven Bank seems dedicated to innovation and compliance.
03-23-2018
Royal Bank of Canada Launches Developer Portal and APIs
Royal Bank of Canada has launched a developer portal and set of APIs. The APIs can be used by eligible businesses and developers to add select RBC banking and services information to applications. Among the APIs are the Branch Locator API, Minimum Down Payment API, and the Amortization Schedule API.
03-21-2018
Bank of America Gives its Corporate Customers an API
Bank of America, the second largest bank in the U.S., introduced a new API on Tuesday for its corporate treasury customers. Using the API, these customers can access their banking information and perform real-time transactions. The bank believes that it will improve its ability to collaborate.
01-25-2018
Monzo Releases Interim API to Comply with PSD2 Banking Regulations
Monzo released an interim API to comply with the Payment Services Directive (now officially law). While the company plans on adding all functionality of its interim API to its standard developer API, the interim API will ensure immediate compliance for companies managing account information.
01-16-2018
SWIFT Institute Challenges Students to Protect Data in an Open API World
The SWIFT Institute has announced the 2018 SWIFT Institute competition which challenges Australian-based students to find ways to protect personal information and other sensitive data in open data environments. This year’s challenge focuses on financial services and open banking APIs.
01-09-2018
Most Popular Government API Categories
We saw earlier this year that the Government category was one of the most popular API categories within our directory. But what sections of government and what kinds of data are being made available via API? In this article we look at the ten most popular categories related to government APIs.
01-02-2018
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Payments, Banking, Blockchain and Finance API University
This article is part of a series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Finance, Payments, Blockchain and Banking APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-31-2017
Payment Rails Launches Global Payout API
Payment Rails has launched its Global Payout API which provides applications payout capabilities such as international ACH, real-time currency conversion, and global mass payouts. The platform provides access to a network for sending payouts using SWIFT, local banks, and other methods.
12-08-2017
ABN AMRO Launches Developer Portal and Commercial APIs
Netherlands-based bank ABN AMRO has launched the first version of its developer portal and a set of commercial APIs. Developers can use the APIs to add to applications banking capabilities such as generating payment requests, retrieve real-time balance information, and transfer multiple payments.
11-20-2017
In Other API Economy News: Google Activity Recognition API and More
In today's roundup we cover Google's work to bring the Activity Recognition Transition API to developers next year in order to power the Do Not Disturb mode when driving. We also look at proposed standards from the W3C and IFX Forum for an Indexed Database and open banking APIs.
11-16-2017
ForwardLane Launches Two AI-Driven FinTech APIs
ForwardLane continues to build its FinTech brand on the value artificial intelligence brings to investing. It has introduced two new APIs (Personalized Insights & Expert Conversation) which aim to use machine learning to analyze various sets and forms of data to enhance investment decisions.
11-16-2017
Oh, About that API that Yahoo! Killed Without Warning Developers
Developers were angered when Yahoo Finance deactivated a CSV download feature that was being treated as an API. As a result, it appears as though several applications broke and developers voiced their disappointment. But, as it turns out, they were taking a big risk in the first place.
11-10-2017
Fannie Mae's New APIs Are Designed to Modernize the Mortgage Lending Industry
The Federal National Mortgage Association, or Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored enterprise and key player in the secondary mortgage market, is currently beta testing an API platform that it says will “level the playing field” for lenders in the multi-trillion dollar market for mortgages.
11-09-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Polar, DarkMindFX, Capital One
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Wearables, Customer Service, Financial and Jobs. Highlights include the Capital One Customer Transactions API, which allows customers to view their credit card information within a third-party application.
11-07-2017
DBS Bank Launches New API Developer Platform
On Thursday, Singapore-based DBS Bank, Southeast Asia's biggest bank, announced a banking API developer platform that it says is "the largest by a bank anywhere in the world." The platform consists of over 150 APIs that cover numerous functional categories including accounts and payments.
11-04-2017
Capital One and Intuit Announce API-Driven, Customer-Centric Financial Data Sharing Partnership
Those with Capital One banking or credit card accounts, who also use one of Intuit's many services (e.g. TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, etc.) may have an easier time transferring financial data from Capital One to their Intuit service through a new, API-driven partnership recently announced.
11-02-2017
Capital One Puts Machine Learning To Work In New Merchant Insights API
Capital One has added another API to its DevExchange portfolio of banking APIs. This one is called the Merchant Insights API and it applies machine learning to transaction data in order to unearth interesting insights about a business such as the hours that it is open during each day of the week.
11-01-2017