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Nov 25, 2020
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service quality for an organization’s APIs in a…
Nov 25, 2020
Something of Interest NatWest Groups' two sets of two Fintech APIs are usually pretty performant, but we have seen a definite dip in the performance of the non-Auth APIs in the last week. The Auth…
Nov 20, 2020
Something of interest Sandboxes for financial APIs are crucial and sometimes don’t get the respect they deserve. That’s partly because some banks have been known to just stick up a bank-in-a-box that…
Nov 19, 2020
API Performance We look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you the API ratings for an organization’s APIs in a particular category with our patented CASC score. Something of…
Nov 17, 2020
Open Banking APIs are, by necessity, secure. In the United Kingdom, an entity wishing to make a call to a UK financial service provider must be a trusted TPP (Third Party Provider). The exact model…
Nov 16, 2020
This is a slight departure from my usual rants, but only because authentication has occupied too much of my damn time this week. Many years ago, we wrote a White Paper on OAuth with the team at…
Nov 12, 2020
But first, something of interest In collaboration with our partners at Fractal Labs, we have completed our quest to get up and running with monitoring all nine CMA9 banks for the Open Banking – UK –…
Nov 11, 2020
We look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service quality by way of API ratings in a particular category with a patented CASC score. Scroll down…
Nov 5, 2020
We have now split out Open banking and other financial APIs we rate into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focused view of the APIs you care about. In particular,…
Nov 4, 2020
We have now plunged screaming into November and the election from hell. But, to cheer us up, we're going to look at API ratings for the last week! We launched API.expert earlier in the year as a…
Nov 3, 2020
The big 2020 election in the USA is ending today! And even though not all of us are in the U.S., there’s a lot of interest all round the world. When the results start coming in, people are going to…
Oct 28, 2020
October has come and gone, and the clocks are falling back around the world. Let's talk about API ratings over the last seven days. But before we do, a quick programming note: We are expanding our…
Oct 27, 2020
We’ve recently split out the finance APIs into a separate weekly and monthly report. This allows us to give you a more focused view on the different classes of APIs you care about. In particular, we…
Oct 22, 2020
We’ve now split out financial API ratings and the non-financial API ratings into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focused view on the different classes of APIs…
Oct 21, 2020
We are crawling our way through this unending October and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched…
Oct 16, 2020
So, September was apparently only a month long - sounds fake, but OK - and we're ready to give you the monthly financial API ratings. We’ve now split out financial API ratings and the non-financial…
Oct 15, 2020
The time has come for us to check out the monthly API ratings, this time for September 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economay…
Oct 14, 2020
We’ve now split out financial API ratings and the non-financial API ratings into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focused view on the different classes of APIs…
Oct 13, 2020
We are now almost halfway through October and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched API.expert as a…
Oct 6, 2020
We have somehow managed to find ourselves already well into October, and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently…
Oct 2, 2020
September has just flown right on by, and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched API.expert as a simple…
Sep 25, 2020
We are now in the final third of September(!) and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched API.expert as a…
Sep 18, 2020
How did we already arrive at the middle of September?! Let's take a look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with…
Sep 15, 2020
There is an idiom in English, “you don’t let the foxes guard the hen house.” I’m not sure how well it translates, but the meaning is simple – don't have people or things who can’t necessarily be…
