Bis MCP server

@pipeworx/bis

BIS (Bank for International Settlements) MCP — central-bank and global-financial statistics over the BIS SDMX v2 API. No auth.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1679+ live data sources.

Tools

ratio, its long-run HP-filter trend, and the gap between them, per quarter, for one country. The gap is the Basel III reference indicator for the countercyclical capital buffer. Accepts a country name or ISO alpha-2 code; 44 economies plus the euro area aggregate (XM).

• biscreditgap(country, startperiod?, endperiod?, limit?) — credit-to-GDP

banking, debt, credit, property, derivatives, prices).

• listcuratedflows(topic?) — pre-vetted dataflow refs by topic (rates, fx,

registry; returns flowrefs ready for fetchdataset.

• search_dataflows(query, limit?) — keyword search over the full BIS dataflow

rows from any BIS dataflow.

• fetchdataset(flowref, key?, startperiod?, endperiod?, limit?) — tidy

Auth

None. BIS publishes these statistics openly and applies no key or quota.

Notes on the upstream API

re-versions dataflows in place (WSTC is 2.0), and a stale version returns an empty result rather than an error. Take refs from listcuratedflows or searchdataflows instead of assuming one.

• flowref carries a version and the version is not always 1.0.** BIS

Q.US... on WSCREDITGAP, whose key is FREQ.BORROWERSCTY.TCBORROWERS.TCLENDERS.CGDTYPE. Leave a position empty to not filter on it. When a key matches nothing, fetch_dataset names the flow's actual dimensions back to you.

• Keys are positional over the flow's own dimensions, dot-separated — e.g.

a label companion (CGDTYPE: "C" / CGDTYPElabel: "Credit-to-GDP gaps (actual-trend)"), because BIS's coded values are opaque on their own.

• Rows carry both the code and its meaning. Every coded column arrives with

startperiod / endperiod.

• The banking and debt-securities flows are multi-megabyte unbounded — pass

Data sources

• API: https://stats.bis.org/api/v2/
• API docs: https://stats.bis.org/api-doc/v2/
• Browse: https://stats.bis.org
• Credit-to-GDP gaps: https://www.bis.org/statistics/c_gaps.htm

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bis": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bis/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bis/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — askpipeworx, discovertools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1679+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.