`nic_search_institutions`

Pack: fed-nic · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fed-nic/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/nic_search_institutions for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search US banks, bank holding companies, financial holding companies and their subsidiaries by name — sourced from the Federal Reserve National Information Center (NIC, ffiec.gov/npw), the Fed’s own repository of bank structure data. Case-insensitive substring match on legal/short name, RANKED (not alphabetical): exact name match first, then a prefix match on an active institution with an FDIC certificate, then any prefix match, then other active FDIC-cert institutions, then the rest — so searching “Wells Fargo Bank” returns the main national bank ahead of same-family entities like an Ireland-domiciled affiliate with no FDIC cert. Returns RSSD ID (NIC’s identifier), FDIC certificate number, LEI, institution type, city/state, and active/closed status — RSSD ID and FDIC cert chain to the fdic pack (fdic_get_institution) and ffiec-call-reports pack (idrssd) for financials on the same bank.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes	Institution name, or part of it, e.g. “JPMorgan Chase Bank”
`status`	string	no	Filter: “active” \| “closed” \| “any” (default “active”)
`state`	string	no	Optional 2-letter US state abbreviation filter, e.g. “OH”
`limit`	number	no	1-50, default 20

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "JPMorgan Chase Bank"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fed-nic/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"nic_search_institutions","arguments":{"query":"JPMorgan Chase Bank"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('nic_search_institutions', {
  "query": "JPMorgan Chase Bank"
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

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

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

nic_search_institutions