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BIS Data Portal Review, Pricing, and Features
Official BIS portal for global macro‑financial statistics with web exploration, exports, bulk downloads, and an SDMX RESTful API. Data can be freely exported with required attribution; BIS may monitor usage and limit/suspend IP access to the APIs. Support contact: statistics@bis.org.
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Key features
- Global BIS macro‑financial time series across topics such as international banking, debt securities, credit, global liquidity, derivatives, property prices, consumer prices, exchange rates, central bank statistics and payment statistics.
- Search time series across all topics, refine with filters, and explore data sets by country/topic/key characteristics.
- Chart and table exploration: list/table/chart views, custom interactive charts, and display of time series breaks where present.
- Export selected time series as Excel or CSV (up to 4,500 series per export) and generate code snippets (Matlab/Python/R) to fetch data via the BIS SDMX RESTful API.
- Bulk downloads: download a full topic as a single zipped file in CSV or SDMX format.
- Publication tables & dashboards: export tables as Excel/CSV and export tables featured in “Tables & dashboards” as PDF; download underlying time series used to build a table.
- Share tables/queries or selected time series via URL; shared links preserve filters and settings.
- Bookmarks: save time series for quick access (stored in local browser storage) and export bookmarked series to a file.
- BIS SDMX RESTful API provides programmatic access to data & metadata; supports JSON, XML and CSV formats and can also return series codes and data availability.
- Release calendar lists target dissemination dates; supports RSS subscription and export (Excel/CSV in list view).
FAQ
Is BIS Data Portal free?
BIS Data Portal is free to use. Visit the vendor site for the latest limits and onboarding details.
Who is BIS Data Portal best for?
BIS Data Portal is built for Analysts, Quants/Developers, and Students/Researchers. It suits intermediate and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does BIS Data Portal support?
You can use BIS Data Portal on Web. BIS Data Portal offers an API.
Which markets does BIS Data Portal cover?
It tracks Currencies, Bonds, Real Estate, Options, Futures, and Other.
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