# BIS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bis/  
**Website:** https://www.bis.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) provides a free SDMX RESTful API offering programmatic access to global financial statistics, international banking data, derivatives market statistics, property prices, exchange rates, and central bank research data. The API follows the SDMX REST v1.4.0 specification and supports JSON, XML, and CSV response formats with no authentication required.

## Kin Score — 34.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 46.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 28.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Free · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **BIS Data availability queries API** — The Data availability queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data availability queries.
- **BIS Data queries API** — The Data queries API from BIS — 1 operation(s) for data queries.
- **BIS Item queries API** — The Item queries API from BIS — 4 operation(s) for item queries.
- **BIS Structure queries API** — The Structure queries API from BIS — 12 operation(s) for structure queries.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bis Agentic Access** — 18 operations

## Security (1)

- **Bis Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bis Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Financial Statistics, Banking Data, Derivatives, Exchange Rates, Central Bank, SDMX, Open Data, International Finance

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bis/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.