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VOL. XCIV, NO. 247
BIS Data Portal Review, Pricing, and Features
BIS Data Portal is the official free statistics portal from the Bank for International Settlements for global macro-financial time series, exports, bulk downloads, release calendars, charts, tables, and SDMX API access. It is strongest for analysts, students, quants, and builders who need cross-country banking, credit, debt, derivatives, liquidity, property-price, exchange-rate, and central-bank statistics, but it is an official macro data source rather than an equity terminal or trading platform.
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Key features
- Tools for exploring official BIS statistics across international banking, debt securities, credit, global liquidity, derivatives, property prices, consumer prices, exchange rates, central banks, and payments.
- Search tools for time series across topics, refine with filters, and browse datasets by country, topic, and key characteristics.
- Table, list, and chart views to inspect series, including visible time-series breaks where available.
- Export support for selected series to Excel or CSV, with a 4,500-series export limit.
- Bulk downloads to retrieve complete topics as zipped CSV or SDMX files.
- Generate Matlab, Python, and R snippets for pulling data through the BIS SDMX RESTful API.
- The SDMX API for programmatic access to data and metadata in JSON, XML, and CSV formats.
- Sharing tools for queries, tables, selected time series, filters, and settings through URLs.
- Bookmarks, release calendars, RSS, and exportable calendar views to manage recurring macro-data work.
- Monitoring BIS attribution and reuse terms, especially when using BIS statistics in commercial products or redistribution workflows.
- Official-source limits: BIS may monitor API usage and limit or suspend IP access, and the portal is not a broker, stock screener, portfolio tracker, or company-fundamentals database.
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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