BIS

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Bank for International Settlements — central bank policy rates, FX, banking, debt, credit. SDMX, no auth.

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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

No parameters required.

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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

No parameters required.

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fetch_dataset

Fetch tidy rows from a BIS dataflow. flow_ref is "BIS,<id>,<version>" 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

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bis_credit_gap

Credit-to-GDP gap for one country from the BIS early-warning indicators: the credit-to-GDP ratio, its long-run one-sided HP-filter trend, and the gap between them in percentage points of GDP. The gap

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bis/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bis/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_curated_flows","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("list_curated_flows", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("bank for international settlements — central bank policy rates, fx, banking, debt, credit");