Bud Financial (“Bud”), the AI platform that turns banking data into actionable insights, today announced the release of the Bud MCP server, enabling rapid development of AI agents that benefit from a deep, real-time understanding of users’ finances.
Bud’s MCP server lets AI applications integrate seamlessly with Bud’s platform so that banks can rapidly deploy AI internal and customer facing systems while safely leveraging their core customer data.
Bud is on a mission to bring AI to the heart of banking, providing every bank employee and their customers with access to AI-assisted customer intelligence.
Bud’s AI models have been developed and trained to understand bank data and seamlessly work on top of existing banking systems, allowing employees to interact with Bud’s platform to easily perform tasks which previously took weeks of data analysis work in seconds. Banking teams can now focus on unlocking new revenue while leveraging Bud to deliver radically personalized experiences to their customers.
With the new MCP server, developers and financial institutions can tap into these insights directly within AI experiences to answer questions about spending patterns, product suitability, affordability and individual transactions, while respecting data consent and security boundaries.
What the Bud MCP server enables
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• Faster AI development:
• Standardized MCP integration reduces development and integration time, allowing teams to prototype and ship AI use cases in record time.
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• Richer context for better answers:
• Access to Bud’s market-leading transaction enrichment and proprietary models delivers
• accurate insight to AI agents.
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• Built for banks and builders:
• From internal bank tools to consumer apps, the same server powers a wide range of scenarios with scoped, consent-based access.
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Example applications
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• Customer service agent apps:
• Surface enriched data to resolve disputes in real time by instantly
• identifying a specific transaction and its category, merchant, location and more.
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• Personal finance agents:
• An individual user connects a local AI app to plan a vacation that considers savings progress and available balances.
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• Rapid product experimentation:
• Financial institutions and partners test and validate new AI-powered
• services using real, high-quality data.
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“As banking institutions seek operational acceleration through AI, they quickly find that they need verticalized models which can make their core data useable. Bud’s models solve this by giving customer intelligence for any financial use case. The new MCP server exposes these capabilities in a standardized way, opening a path to rapid development and better outcomes.” said Edward Maslaveckas, CEO and Co-Founder of Bud.
The Bud MCP server is available today for banks, credit unions, fintechs and partners. Developers can connect via the MCP specification and start building with Bud’s tools and services immediately.