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Tools: 3

BIS (Bank for International Settlements) MCP — central-bank and global-financial statistics over the BIS SDMX v2 API. No auth.

Tools

• bis_credit_gap(country, start_period?, end_period?, limit?) — credit-to-GDP ratio, its long-run HP-filter trend, and the gap between them, per quarter, for one country. The gap is the Basel III reference indicator for the countercyclical capital buffer. Accepts a country name or ISO alpha-2 code; 44 economies plus the euro area aggregate (XM).
• list_curated_flows(topic?) — pre-vetted dataflow refs by topic (rates, fx, banking, debt, credit, property, derivatives, prices).
• search_dataflows(query, limit?) — keyword search over the full BIS dataflow registry; returns flow_refs ready for fetch_dataset.
• fetch_dataset(flow_ref, key?, start_period?, end_period?, limit?) — tidy rows from any BIS dataflow.

Auth

None. BIS publishes these statistics openly and applies no key or quota.

Notes on the upstream API

• flow_ref carries a version and the version is not always 1.0. BIS re-versions dataflows in place (WS_TC is 2.0), and a stale version returns an empty result rather than an error. Take refs from list_curated_flows or search_dataflows instead of assuming one.
• Keys are positional over the flow’s own dimensions, dot-separated — e.g. Q.US... on WS_CREDIT_GAP, whose key is FREQ.BORROWERS_CTY.TC_BORROWERS.TC_LENDERS.CG_DTYPE. Leave a position empty to not filter on it. When a key matches nothing, fetch_dataset names the flow’s actual dimensions back to you.
• Rows carry both the code and its meaning. Every coded column arrives with a <COLUMN>_label companion (CG_DTYPE: "C" / CG_DTYPE_label: "Credit-to-GDP gaps (actual-trend)"), because BIS’s coded values are opaque on their own.
• The banking and debt-securities flows are multi-megabyte unbounded — pass start_period / end_period.

Data sources

• API: https://stats.bis.org/api/v2/
• API docs: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v2/
• Browse: https://stats.bis.org
• Credit-to-GDP gaps: https://www.bis.org/statistics/c_gaps.htm

Tools

• list_curated_flows — List BIS dataflow refs we have pre-vetted, grouped by topic (rates, fx, banking, debt, credit, property, derivatives, finance). Use the flow_ref with fetch_dataset. For everything else use search_data
• search_dataflows — Search the BIS SDMX dataflow registry by keyword against dataflow name and ID. Returns matched flow_refs (e.g., ‘BIS,WS_CBPOL_D,1.0’) ready to pass to fetch_dataset, capped at limit (default 25, max 1
• fetch_dataset — Fetch tidy rows from a BIS dataflow. flow_ref is “BIS,,” and the VERSION IS NOT ALWAYS 1.0 — “BIS,WS_CBPOL,1.0” (central bank policy rates), “BIS,WS_XRU,1.0” (US-dollar exchange rates), b