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S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance)

REST API and Model Context Protocol server exposing S&P Capital IQ Financials, Market Data, Business Relationships, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, M&A Transactions, and Global Securities information to LLMs and agentic AI applications. Distributed via the kensho-kfinance Python library and an MCP server compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon QuickSuite, Databricks, and Mistral. 60 documented REST endpoints across companies, securities, statements, estimates, transcripts, mergers, funding rounds, and identifier crosswalks.

S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance) is one of 9 APIs that S&P Global publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Financial Data, Capital IQ, LLM, MCP, and Agents. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and a JSON-LD context.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 3.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://kfinance.kensho.com.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
3.0.0
Base URL
https://kfinance.kensho.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

S&P Global LLM-Ready API (kFinance) declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Auditors 1
POST
/api/v1/auditors/
Get the financial auditors of a given company id
auditors_create body → 200403

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AuditorRequest (4 properties), AuditorEntry (2 properties), AuditorResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CalendarTypeEnum
string
fiscal - fiscal calendar - calendar
AuditorResponse
object
2 properties 2 required
AuditorEntry
object
2 properties 2 required
AuditorRequest
object
Request fields for postfinancialauditors
4 properties 1 required
NullEnum

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

sp-global-auditors-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs S&P Global publishes across the network.

Kensho Extract API
Kensho NERD API
Kensho Scribe Batch API v2
Kensho Scribe Real Time API
Kensho Scribe Batch API v1
Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)
S&P Capital IQ Pro
S&P Global Marketplace
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