For Agents
Aggregate bank accounts, fetch normalised transactions, categorise spending, and initiate SEPA payments across European banks via the Budgea open banking platform.
Use for: I need to list the bank connectors supported by Budgea, Get the transaction history for a connected user's bank account, Initiate a SEPA payment from a connected account, Categorise a list of transactions using Budgea categories
Not supported: Does not handle card issuing, accounting ledgers, or merchant card acceptance - use for PSD2 bank aggregation and payment initiation only.
The Budgea API by Powens (formerly Budget Insight) is an open banking aggregation platform covering PSD2-regulated bank connections, account information, transaction history, payment initiation, and personal finance management features. Agents can connect end users to French and European banks, retrieve normalised transaction feeds, categorise spending, and trigger SEPA payments. The spec exposes 167 endpoints across banking connectors, accounts, transactions, categories, users, webhooks, and document-based wealth aggregation. Authentication relies on JWT tokens minted from /auth/jwt and user access tokens minted from /auth/token.
Install Jentic One Beta
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Budgea API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbiapi.pro%2Fbiapi" | shStep 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbiapi.pro%2Fbiapi" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
What an agent can do with Budgea API.
Connect end users to French and European banks under PSD2 access-to-account
Fetch normalised transaction history across linked bank accounts
Categorise transactions using the Budgea category taxonomy and keyword rules
Initiate SEPA credit transfers and recurring payments through PSD2 payment initiation
Manage user accounts and issue per-user access tokens for the API
GET STARTED
Retrieve the catalogue of supported bank connectors and their fields
Subscribe to webhooks that notify on transaction updates and connection status
Patterns agents use Budgea API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Personal Finance Management Aggregator
Build a PFM application that aggregates a user's bank accounts across multiple French and European banks, categorises every transaction, and produces a monthly spending breakdown. Budgea handles the PSD2 connection lifecycle, normalises transactions across banks, and applies a category taxonomy with keyword rules. Typical integration time for a PFM MVP is 3-4 weeks including the redirect flow.
Fetch every account and the last 90 days of transactions for user 9876, then group totals by category.
SEPA Payment Initiation
Trigger payments directly from a connected bank account under PSD2 payment initiation services. Budgea brokers the redirect to the user's bank for strong customer authentication, then returns the payment status. This is suitable for invoice settlement, recurring rent collection, and account-funded e-commerce checkout in the EU.
Initiate a 250 EUR SEPA transfer from connection 4567 to IBAN FR76xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with reference 'INV-2026-001'.
Lending Underwriting Data Pull
Pull a normalised income and expenditure feed from a borrower's bank account to underwrite a loan. The Budgea connection delivers categorised transactions, recurring income detection, and account balance trends. Lenders avoid building per-bank scrapers and rely on the Budgea connector catalogue, which covers most retail banks in France and major European markets.
Retrieve 12 months of transactions from user 1234's primary current account and flag every recurring salary deposit.
AI Agent Spending Coach
An AI agent acts as a spending coach, answering questions like 'how much did I spend on dining this month?' by querying Budgea through Jentic. The agent does not handle JWT minting itself - Jentic stores both the manage token and per-user tokens in the vault and injects the right credential per call.
Search Jentic for 'list user transactions Budgea', load the schema, and return all dining-category transactions for the current month.
167 endpoints — the budgea api by powens (formerly budget insight) is an open banking aggregation platform covering psd2-regulated bank connections, account information, transaction history, payment initiation, and personal finance management features.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
/admin/jwt
Generate a manage JWT token
/auth/jwt
Generate a user JWT token
/auth/token
Login to the API with credentials
/banks
List supported bank connectors
/categories
List the category taxonomy
/admin/jwt
Generate a manage JWT token
/auth/jwt
Generate a user JWT token
/auth/token
Login to the API with credentials
/banks
List supported bank connectors
/categories
List the category taxonomy
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring the Budgea API by hand means minting manage tokens and per-user JWTs at /admin/jwt and /auth/jwt, carrying the right token on each PSD2 aggregation call, and building payloads yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Budgea from the API Directory, store the manage credentials once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Budgea passes user and bank identifiers in the request body and token rather than pinning a resource in the path for these operations, so limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as listing banks or categories. You choose that set, so token-minting or payment-initiation operations are not reachable unless you include them.
Credential isolation
Your Budgea manage token and per-user JWTs are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. They never enter the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list supported banks' or 'get transaction categories', and Jentic returns the matching Budgea operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
Specific to using Budgea API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Budgea API use?
Budgea uses JWT tokens. POST to /admin/jwt for a manage token (tied to your client credentials) and POST to /auth/jwt or /auth/token to mint a per-user token after a user has connected. Through Jentic, both tokens are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time so the agent never handles raw secrets.
Can I initiate SEPA payments with the Budgea API?
Yes. Budgea offers PSD2 payment initiation services and the spec includes payment-related endpoints under the /users and /banks resources. The user's bank handles strong customer authentication via redirect; Budgea returns the payment status to your application.
What are the rate limits for the Budgea API?
Rate limits are tier-dependent and not declared in the OpenAPI spec. Powens documents quotas in the partner agreement; expect HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header when limits are hit. Manage-token-scoped calls are rate-limited per client; per-user calls are limited per user-token.
How do I list a user's transactions through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'list user transactions Budgea', load the matching operation, and execute with the user_id. With the SDK: pip install jentic, then SearchRequest, LoadRequest, ExecutionRequest in an async flow - Jentic injects the right user JWT for the call.
Which banks does Budgea cover?
GET /banks returns the live catalogue of supported connectors. Coverage is strongest in France and major European markets. Each connector entry exposes fields such as the required login parameters and the connector's source feed (PSD2 API or web aggregation fallback).
Does Budgea support webhooks for transaction updates?
Yes - Budgea exposes webhook subscriptions so your application can be notified when transactions change or a connection moves into an error state. Configure webhook URLs in the Powens admin console and consume them via your own HTTPS endpoint.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Budgea API?
Yes. Because you self-host Jentic One, your own rules decide which Budgea operations and credentials the agent can use, and Budgea carries the user and bank identifiers in the request body and token rather than in the path. You can grant read-only operations such as GET /banks, GET /categories, or listing a user's transactions while withholding the rest. Token-minting endpoints like /admin/jwt and /auth/jwt and SEPA payment initiation stay unreachable unless you explicitly include them.