Lesson 4 of 5
Keeping APIs safe: authentication, authorisation and consent
Every API call asks a lender's systems, or a bank's, to hand over data or move money. This lesson explains how a connection establishes who is calling, what the caller may do and whether the customer agreed, and how limits and monitoring catch what those checks miss.
Published 13 October 2026 · Listen to this lesson
In this lesson
- Three questions for every request
- Proving who the customer is
- Proving who the third party is
- Consent the connection can check
- Limits, monitoring and the record