# OSFI Banks Financial Data

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-banks-financial-data/  
**Provider:** OSFI — https://apis.io/providers/osfi/  
**Base URL:** https://open.canada.ca/data/en/api/3/action  
**Documentation:** https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/91ed76b4-a1a2-4f87-9c4c-59cd64f7a9de

OSFI Banks Financial Data is one of 9 APIs that [OSFI](https://apis.io/providers/osfi/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Banks, Basel III, Capital Adequacy, Regulatory Reporting, and Canada. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.

Publicly disclosable regulatory returns filed by federally regulated banks — M4 Consolidated Balance Sheet, BA BASEL III Capital Adequacy Reporting (BCAR), E3 Return of Allowances for Expected Credit Losses, LR Leverage Requirements Return and P3 Consolidated Statement of Income, Retained Earnings and AOCI, plus inactive legacy series (M3, G3). Seven datastore-active CSV resources on Canada's Open Government portal, readable anonymously over the CKAN 3 Action API. Confirmed live 2026-07-25 — the M4 resource returns 1,555,044 records and BCAR returns 299,223.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/data-forms/open-government-osfi-financial-data
- **GettingStarted** — https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/data-forms/open-government-osfi-financial-data/working-open-government-data
- **APIReference** — https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/datastore.html
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/osfi/refs/heads/main/json-ld/osfi-banks.jsonld
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/osfi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/osfi-financial-return-datapoint-monthly.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/osfi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/osfi-financial-return-datapoint.json
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/osfi/refs/heads/main/examples/osfi-datastore-search-banks-bcar-example.json

## Other OSFI APIs (8)

- [OSFI Who We Regulate Register](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-who-we-regulate-register/)
- [OSFI Life Insurance Companies Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-life-insurance-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Property and Casualty Companies Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-property-casualty-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Fraternal Benefit Societies Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-fraternal-benefit-societies-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Foreign Bank Branches Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-foreign-bank-branches-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Trust Companies Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-trust-companies-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Loan Companies Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-loan-companies-financial-data/)
- [OSFI Retail Associations Financial Data](https://apis.io/apis/osfi/osfi-retail-associations-financial-data/)

## Tags

Banks, Basel III, Capital Adequacy, Regulatory Reporting, Canada, Open Data

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