Users of Tinubu's broker and agent platform (TSBA) are about to have a faster way to move bond data into the systems they work in.
The new TSBA Bond Data API delivers structured bond transaction data directly into your data warehouse, CRM, or BI dashboard, removing the manual reporting steps that sit between the platform and the tools your team uses every day.
Before the API, getting TSBA data into another system meant logging into the platform, running a report, exporting to Excel, and reformatting the file for your business intelligence tools, CRM, or accounting software. The new API replaces that workflow with a direct, automated connection.
What the TSBA Bond Data API does
The Bond Data API will give authorized brokers and agents an automated connection to their bond transaction data in TSBA. Instead of pulling reports manually, your systems can call the API and receive structured, up-to-date bond data on demand. That data can be loaded automatically into a data warehouse, a CRM, a dashboard, or any other tool your team relies on.
Robert Hoon, Platform Operations Specialist at Tinubu, has been central to bringing this capability to market. The goal, he explains, is "to provide directly to the agency and its IT department all of the data related to a bond coming out of the system."
Once an agent finishes managing a bond on the platform, whether that's an execution, rider, or cancellation, there's no longer any need to pull a report and route it through another team. "You'll just be able to call the API, get the data into your system, and automate that process," Hoon says.
The API returns comprehensive bond transaction records in clean, standard JSON format, including:
- Bond details and transaction types
- Carrier information
- Premium data
- Principal and obligee details
- Custom fields
- Team member assignments
Date ranges are flexible. Teams can pull a day's activity, a week's, or up to a month at a time.
Built Around How TSBA Clients Want to Work
The API reflects a range of feedback Tinubu has received from clients about how they want to access and use their bond data. Those requests spanned straightforward reporting needs and some genuinely creative interim solutions.
"We have a client who previously was wondering if we had this type of capability," Hoon says. "The solution they came up with was to create a bot that was logging onto the platform and running a custom report, capturing every data point available regularly. They were logging in, running the report, pulling it into Excel, and then taking that data out for their data warehouse."
It worked, but it was fragile and labor-intensive. The Bond Data API replaces that approach with the same data, delivered cleanly and on schedule, without simulating a user session or doing manual re-entry.
Scheduled reporting was another consistent theme. "Because this API allows you to pull the data for the time frame that you want, you don't need to run the report on the TSBA platform," Hoon notes. "We're just giving you the raw but structured data, and you can build your report with it."
How Brokers and Agents Use the Bond Data API
One of the most important things about the API is that, in Hoon's words, "it does not require you to adapt your workflows. It adapts to you." There is no new interface to learn and no need to change the tools your team works in. If you already use Tableau, Power BI, Salesforce, or another platform, TSBA bond data will flow directly into it.
Salesforce and CRM Integration
For larger agencies managing client relationships and lead pipelines in Salesforce, bond data such as activity, status, and transaction history can now live alongside the account information their agents are already working with, with no manual re-entry.
For agencies that don't use one of the Agency Management Software (AMS) platforms Tinubu integrates with today, the API opens another path. "Outside of the integrations that exist for AMS platforms today, now they can build their own," Hoon says. "We're giving them the raw data, and they can take it and run with it."
Workload Visibility for Managers
For larger agencies managing multiple teams and high bond volumes, the API will unlock a different kind of visibility. Because every bond record includes the team member who worked it, agencies can use that data to understand workload distribution.
"Managers can capture the name of the team member who's working the bond," Hoon says. "They can see how many executions a team member is processing in a month, how many riders they're processing, and the overall volume of work they're doing on the platform."
Automated Client Reporting and Business Intelligence Dashboards
For agencies that manage large accounts and produce regular reports for clients, the API simplifies a process that currently involves numerous manual steps. Today, producing a monthly account report for a major client means logging into the reporting module, configuring the report, pulling the data, exporting it, and reformatting it into something presentable.
With the API, that data will be fed directly into a Tableau or Power BI dashboard, updated automatically, and ready when you need it.
For agents who work directly with clients in the field, this is particularly valuable. With the API feeding a BI dashboard on a tablet, an agent can show clients exactly what they need, in a format that fits the conversation, without going back to the office to pull a report.
What's next for the TSBA Bond Data API
The Bond Data API will be the first in a wider set of API capabilities opening up to TSBA clients. The intent is to give agencies a full spectrum of reporting and integration options over time, beginning with this comprehensive view of bond transaction data.
For agencies that have been managing TSBA data through exports, workarounds, or manual processes, this will be a meaningful step forward. The data was always there. Soon it will be accessible in the way that works best for your business.
The Bond Data API is with an anchor TSBA client and will roll out more broadly in Q3.
