OSFI · Example Payload

Osfi Datastore Search Who We Regulate Example

List federally regulated financial institutions from the Who We Regulate register.

InsuranceCanadaRegulatorLife InsuranceProperty and CasualtyFinancial RegulationPrudential SupervisionOpen DataRisk DataMarket InfrastructureBankingBasel IIICapital AdequacyRegulatory ReportingPensions

Osfi Datastore Search Who We Regulate Example is an example object payload from OSFI, with 5 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

generatedmethoddescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "generated": "2026-07-25",
  "method": "searched",
  "description": "List federally regulated financial institutions from the Who We Regulate register.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=945045fa-2de0-47d4-aad2-144d69467824&limit=2",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "User-Agent": "a browser User-Agent is required; the open.canada.ca WAF rejects default curl UAs with an HTML page under HTTP 200"
    },
    "auth": "none \u2014 anonymous"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "content_type": "application/json",
    "body": {
      "help": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/api/3/action/help_show?name=datastore_search",
      "success": true,
      "result": {
        "include_total": true,
        "limit": 2,
        "records_format": "objects",
        "resource_id": "945045fa-2de0-47d4-aad2-144d69467824",
        "total_estimation_threshold": null,
        "records": [
          {
            "_id": 1408,
            "Company Name": "ACTRA Fraternal Benefit Society",
            "FI Type Name": "Federally Regulated Financial Institutions",
            "FI Group Name": "Fraternal Benefit Societies",
            "FI Industry Name": "Canadian Fraternal Benefit Societies",
            "Canadian Trade Company Name": null,
            "Representative Name": "Ron P. Zammit",
            "Title": "Chief Executive Officer",
            "Address Line 1": "1000 Yonge Street",
            "Address Line 2": null,
            "City": "Toronto",
            "Province State": "Ontario",
            "Postal ZIP Code": "M4W 2K2",
            "Authorized Insurance Classes": "Life; Accident and sickness. All classes of insurance are limited to the extent authorized by its instrument of incorporation and by-laws."
          },
          {
            "_id": 1409,
            "Company Name": "AIG Insurance Company of Canada",
            "FI Type Name": "Federally Regulated Financial Institutions",
            "FI Group Name": "Property & Casualty Insurance Companies",
            "FI Industry Name": "Canadian Property & Casualty Insurance Companies",
            "Canadian Trade Company Name": null,
            "Representative Name": "Peter  Walker",
            "Title": "President & CEO",
            "Address Line 1": "120 BREMNER BOULEVARD",
            "Address Line 2": "SUITE 2200",
            "City": "TORONTO",
            "Province State": "Ontario",
            "Postal ZIP Code": "M5J 0A8",
            "Authorized Insurance Classes": "Hail; Credit protection; Surety; Fidelity; Marine; Automobile; Liability; Boiler and machinery; Credit; Property; Accident and sickness; Aircraft."
          }
        ],
        "fields": [
          {
            "id": "_id",
            "type": "int"
          },
          {
            "id": "Company Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "FI Type Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "FI Group Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "FI Industry Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Canadian Trade Company Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Representative Name",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Title",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Address Line 1",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Address Line 2",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "City",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Province State",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Postal ZIP Code",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "id": "Authorized Insurance Classes",
            "type": "text"
          }
        ],
        "_links": {
          "start": "/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=945045fa-2de0-47d4-aad2-144d69467824&limit=2",
          "next": "/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=945045fa-2de0-47d4-aad2-144d69467824&limit=2&offset=2"
        },
        "total": 349,
        "total_was_estimated": false
      }
    }
  }
}