API Evangelist Daily — Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Intro (draft, edit freely): This is the API Evangelist Daily for Thursday, October 22, 2026 — what is new across APIs.io, API Evangelist and API Commons, plus a few things from the shelf.

New on API Evangelist

A Banker Said Finance Does Not Have Enough MCP Servers And They Are Right About The Banks — I was at a conference in New York yesterday, and someone from the financial industry told me there just aren’t enough useful MCP servers in their sector. I didn’t want to answer from my gut, so when I got back to the hotel I asked the catalog. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/22/a-banker-said-finance-does-not-have-enough-mcp-servers-and-they-are-right-about-the-banks/
Discovery Is The First Governance Control: My Keynote At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York — Yesterday morning I opened Tyk’s LEAP ON TOUR: The Future of MCP Governance in New York, a room of about thirty people who decide how their companies will govern agents, most of them from finance. Buddha gave me twenty minutes to set the stage before a panel with Kelly Rogers and Irene Aldridge. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/22/discovery-is-the-first-governance-control-my-keynote-at-tyk-leap-on-tour-in-new-york/
Payments And Banking: The Shape Of The Answer — Earlier this week I wrote about DeepInfer and the shape of the answer. Batch-invariant inference, deterministic sampling, and output constrained to a JSON schema or grammar now ship together in the open. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/22/payments-and-banking-the-shape-of-the-answer/
Plus 4 more today: Trust You Can Carry Has To Be Written Down; We Did Not Skip Hypermedia, We Moved It Out Of The Response; We Had The Agent Protocol In 2008 And We Left It On The Table; Who Owns The Agent: The Panel At Tyk LEAP ON TOUR In New York

New on APIs.io

Ada scores 87.3, exemplar, and its catalog record cannot agree how many APIs it has — Ada scores 87.3 on the Kin Score, exemplar band, up 2.9 from 84.4 at the last run. Its Agent Readiness is 47.3, agent-ready, and the rubric records that a gate held it back from agent-native. https://apis.io/2026/10/22/ada-scores-87-3-exemplar-and-its-catalog-cannot-agree-how-many-apis-it-has/
Atlassian opens Bitbucket to AI clients over OAuth, and the record has not found the server — Atlassian has made Bitbucket Cloud easier for an AI assistant to reach. In Connect Bitbucket Cloud to your AI tools with Atlassian MCP, the post explains that Bitbucket was already available through the Atlassian MCP Server with API tokens, and the latest release adds OAuth, so developers can sign in with their Atlassian account instead. https://apis.io/2026/10/22/atlassian-opens-bitbucket-to-ai-clients-over-oauth-and-the-record-has-not-found-the-server/
Document360 reviews seven API documentation tools, and its own record shows no MCP server — Document360 has published the kind of list every documentation vendor eventually writes, and it is more useful than most. In Top 7 API Documentation Tools: Key Features, Pros & Cons, the knowledge base company reviews itself alongside Swagger, Redoc, Stoplight, ReadMe, Mintlify and GitBook, and names Docusaurus and Postman as others in the field. https://apis.io/2026/10/22/document360-reviews-seven-api-documentation-tools-and-its-own-record-shows-no-mcp-server/
Plus 7 more today: DynamoDB Transactions is two operations, and our contract for it drops seven of nine errors; Food delivery has 105 providers on apis.io and three that score above sixty; Foreca says API documentation you’ll love, and publishes no contract; Japan & Korea nearly doubled to 284 providers, and its payments leaders fell; Productboard says MCP is how the tools connect, and Productboard is the record; Snowflake unties pg_lake from one Iceberg catalog; Subscription billing on apis.io lists Ace Hardware and misses Stripe

Kin Score mover

Deputy rose 33.0 points, from 23.7 to 56.7 (strong), between the 2026-10-11 and 2026-10-17 scoring runs. https://apis.io/providers/deputy/

Provider spotlight

Microsoft Power Apps — Collection of APIs for Microsoft Power Apps platform enabling low-code application development, automation, and data connectivity. Kin Score 54.3 (strong), agent readiness 33.7 (agent-ready). https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-power-apps/

From the conversations

API Evangelist Conversation with Lorna Mitchell, VP of Developer Experience at Redocly — The opinionated and deeply knowledgeable driver of API specifications and VP of Developer Experience at Redocly, Lorna Mitchell came by to share some knowledge on Redocly CLI with me. I have made an executive decision to not have API service providers on my podcast, opting to speak with API producer and consumers, but Lorna transcends her role at Redocly. https://conversations.apievangelist.com/store/2024-10-17-lorna-mitchell-redocly/

FAQ

How do I get my company removed from the catalog? Ask, and it happens. The default outcome keeps a name, a description and a link to your own site, with no rating and no artifacts — and there is a permanent registry that stops you being re-added. https://faq.apievangelist.com/questions/how-do-i-get-removed-from-the-catalog/

Guidance

Platforms — The underlying infrastructure and tooling on which API programs are built https://guidance.apievangelist.com/store/platforms/

Standard

CIECA — CIECA is the standards body for the collision and auto physical damage side of insurance — the data standards moving estimates, assignments, images and repair information between insurers, body shops, estimating systems and parts suppliers. https://standards.apievangelist.com/store/cieca/

Investor

DCVC (Data Collective) — DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep-tech venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California. Founded and led by managing partners Matt Ocko and Zachary Bogue, DCVC backs entrepreneurs using computational and AI-driven approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across sectors that have often seen little material progress in decades. https://apis.io/vcs/dcvc/

Country

🇯🇵 Japan — 164 API providers on APIs.io; the most in Artificial Intelligence (32), Data & Analytics (15), Industrial (14). https://apis.io/countries/japan/

Regulation

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 — The DMCC Act gives the Competition and Markets Authority a standing digital-markets regime. https://regulations.apievangelist.com/store/dmcca-2024/

Tool

Apache Camel — Integration framework implementing enterprise integration patterns for connecting diverse systems and protocols. https://tools.apievangelist.com/store/apache-camel/

Outro (draft): Everything mentioned is linked in the show notes. Find any API at apis.io, and see what we are working on at apievangelist.com.