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Federal Reserve National Information Center (NIC, ffiec.gov/npw)

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Tools

nic_search_institutions

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 r

No parameters required.

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nic_get_institution

Full NIC record for one institution by RSSD ID — legal name, FDIC certificate, LEI, institution type, charter type, location, and active/closed status. Sourced from the Federal Reserve National Inform

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nic_get_hierarchy

Corporate ownership hierarchy for a bank or holding company, sourced from the Federal Reserve NIC (ffiec.gov/npw) Relationships data — "which holding company owns this bank?" / "list the subsidiaries

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nic_get_history

Merger, acquisition, failure and charter-transformation history for an institution, sourced from the Federal Reserve NIC (ffiec.gov/npw) Transformations data — "what predecessor institutions merged in

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fed-nic/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fed-nic/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"nic_search_institutions","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("nic_search_institutions", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("federal reserve national information center (nic, ffiec");