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Yorkshire Building Society Confirmation of Funds API

OBIE Read/Write Confirmation of Funds (CBPII) API v3.1.2 - lets FCA-authorised card-based payment instrument issuers set up a funds confirmation consent and confirm whether a specified amount is available on a consenting YBS or Chelsea Building Society account. FAPI-secured (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, PSD2 SCA).

Yorkshire Building Society Confirmation of Funds API is one of 6 APIs that Yorkshire Building Society publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Confirmation of Funds, CBPII, and Open Banking. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and a getting-started guide.

This API exposes 4 operations across 3 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version v3.1.2.

Requests are made against the base URL https://ob-ybs.api.ybs.co.uk/open-banking/v3.1/cbpii.

4 operations 3 paths 9 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
v3.1.2
Base URL
https://ob-ybs.api.ybs.co.uk/open-banking/v3.1/cbpii
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, OAuth 2.0
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Yorkshire Building Society Confirmation of Funds API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (TPPOAuth2Security) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope. It supports OAuth 2.0 (PSUOAuth2Security) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 1 scope.

  • TPPOAuth2Security — TPP client credential authorisation flow with the ASPSP
  • PSUOAuth2Security — OAuth flow, it is required when the PSU needs to perform SCA with the ASPSP when a TPP wants to access an ASPSP resource owned by the PSU

Paths & Operations 4

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Funds Confirmations 4
POST
/funds-confirmation-consents
Create Funds Confirmation Consent
CreateFundsConfirmationConsents 4 params body → 201400401403404405406429
GET
/funds-confirmation-consents/{ConsentId}
Get Funds Confirmation Consent
GetFundsConfirmationConsentsConsentId 5 params → 200400401403404405406429
DELETE
/funds-confirmation-consents/{ConsentId}
Delete Funds Confirmation Consent
DeleteFundsConfirmationConsentsConsentId 5 params → 204400401403404405406429
POST
/funds-confirmations
Create Funds Confirmation
CreateFundsConfirmations 4 params body → 201400401403404405406429

Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Links (5 properties), OBErrorResponse1 (4 properties), OBError1 (4 properties), OBFundsConfirmationConsentResponse1 (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ISODateTime
string
All dates in the JSON payloads are represented in ISO 8601 date-time format. All date-time fields in responses must include the timezone. An example is below:…
Links
object
Links relevant to the payload
5 properties 1 required
Meta
object
Meta Data relevant to the payload
3 properties
OBError1
object
4 properties 2 required
OBErrorResponse1
object
An array of detail error codes, and messages, and URLs to documentation to help remediation.
4 properties 3 required
OBFundsConfirmation1
object
1 property 1 required
OBFundsConfirmationConsent1
object
1 property 1 required
OBFundsConfirmationConsentResponse1
object
3 properties 1 required
OBFundsConfirmationResponse1
object
3 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

yorkshire-building-society-confirmation-of-funds-api-openapi.yaml Raw ↑

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