Bank account lifecycle
Account statuses
Account statuses
This guide will show you how to close a bank account via the API. It covers all types of bank accounts you can currently create on the Griffin platform.
An event occurs when the state of an API resource changes. For example, a transaction-created event occurs whenever funds are deposited or withdrawn from a Griffin bank account.
Welcome to the Griffin API! This guide will take you through creating an API key and introduce some concepts you need to get started.
Interest is money that you earn on your funds that you hold with Griffin. It is based on the amount of money you hold with us and the interest rate on the account that holds the funds.
This guide will show you how to invite new users to your organisation.
A legal person is either:
This guide will walk you through making a payment to a UK bank account. Payment processing is a multi-step process which requires interacting with several resource types. Learn about payments, transactions, submissions and admissions here
This guide will show you how to add and remove members of a pooled safeguarding or pooled client money account.
This guide will show you how to onboard your customers that are in the property sector using Verify. Verify is our onboarding product for running automated KYC/KYB checks on your customers.
This guide will show you how to integrate your applications with Verify, our onboarding product for running automated KYC/KYB checks on your customers. This is also the first step for opening bank accounts for your customers with Griffin. Learn more about Verify.
A client money account is for managing your customers' funds. Only firms regulated under CASS (the FCA's Client Assets Sourcebook) can open client money accounts. You can choose to open a dedicated account for each of your customers, or a pooled account for holding funds from multiple customers. Learn more about bank accounts.
A safeguarding account is for managing your customers funds. Only firms regulated as Electronic money institutions (EMIs) and payments institutions (PIs) in the UK can open safeguarding accounts. You can choose to open a dedicated account for each of your customers, or a pooled account for holding funds from multiple customers. Learn more about bank accounts.
A savings account enables you to offer savings products to your customers. Learn more about savings accounts.
An operational account is a bank account for managing your organisation's own funds. Learn more about bank accounts.
Making a payment is a multistep process. There are several resources that you will need to interact with throughout its processing lifecycle which are described below.
What is the primary account?
This guide will walk you through receiving a payment to one of your accounts. Payment processing is a multi-step process which requires interacting with several resource types. Learn about payments, transactions, submissions and admissions here
Reliance allows you to carry out onboarding and complete all due diligence on your customers using your own tools and then provide us with the necessary information we require and an attestation of verification. We will periodically run assurance checks on your customer due diligence (CDD).