API Product

Financial Insights

A 360ยฐ view of your customer's financial behaviour โ€” income patterns, spending habits, affordability scores and risk signals โ€” all derived from real bank data in real time.

95%+
Categorisation Accuracy
18mo
Historical Data
<1s
Insight Delivery
60+
Spend Categories
Core Capabilities

Turn raw transactions into actionable intelligence

Go beyond basic account data โ€” understand financial behaviour, risk profile and affordability in one API call.

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Income Verification

Detect regular salary credits, irregular income, and secondary income streams. Verify employer and payment frequency automatically.

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Affordability Scoring

Real-time affordability assessment based on actual income minus committed expenditure โ€” not credit bureau estimates.

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Merchant Identification

Every transaction enriched with merchant name, logo, category and MCC code โ€” even from raw bank statement descriptions.

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Spending Behaviour Analysis

Monthly spend by category, trend analysis, seasonal patterns, and peer benchmarking across 60+ spend categories.

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Risk Signal Detection

Identify gambling activity, overdraft reliance, payday loan usage, and irregular cash withdrawals as early risk indicators.

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Recurring Payment Detection

Automatically identifies subscriptions, bills and standing orders โ€” shows true committed expenditure for accurate affordability.

How It Works

Connect once, insight always

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Connect Account

Customer grants read-only consent via their bank. Ironledge retrieves up to 18 months of transaction history instantly.

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ML Enrichment

Every transaction is classified by our ML models โ€” merchant, category, recurring flag, and risk signal โ€” in under one second.

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Insights Generated

Income profile, affordability score, spending breakdown and risk signals are computed and returned via a single API response.

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Continuous Refresh

Webhooks fire on new transactions. Insights stay current โ€” no need to re-fetch or re-authenticate the customer.

Use Cases

The intelligence layer lenders rely on

Lending

Affordability Assessment

Replace manual bank statement uploads with instant, accurate affordability data. Reduce processing time from days to seconds.

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Personal Finance

Smart Budgeting Apps

Power budgeting and financial wellness tools with categorised spend, income detection and subscription tracking.

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Insurance

Risk-Based Underwriting

Supplement actuarial models with real financial behaviour data โ€” gambling flags, income volatility, overdraft patterns.

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Developer Experience

One consent. Full financial picture.

Pass a customer consent token and receive a complete financial profile โ€” income, spend categories, affordability score and risk signals โ€” in a single response.

get-insights.js
// Retrieve financial insightsGEThttps://api.ironledge.com/v1/insights/{consent_id}// Response{"income": {"monthly_net": 380000, "employer": "Acme Ltd", "frequency": "monthly"},"affordability": {"score": 82, "disposable": 94000},"risk_signals": ["none"]}

Know your customer.
Really know them.

Replace credit bureau guesswork with real financial behaviour โ€” income verified, affordability proven, risk signals surfaced.

No credit card required ยท GDPR compliant ยท Sandbox available instantly