Data
Every dataset on Finance Foundation: what it covers, where it comes from, how it is processed, and how to fetch it as JSON.
The data pipeline
Finance Foundation separates data by processing stage. Raw inputs are never mixed into the presentation layer — every published number has passed through the full pipeline.
Current status — honest version
The current dataset is seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30: a hand-audited seed covering the most systemically important entities in each class. Market capitalisation is computed, not stored: shares outstanding read from each issuer's own filing, multiplied by the closing price on its home listing, with both inputs and their dates shown on every company page. Other figures (AUM, GDP, bank assets) are still approximate reference values from public sources, rounded, dated Q2 2026, and not real-time — treat those as scale, not as quotes. The live layer is separate and current: 66 series (crypto, FX, policy rate, 10Y yield, CPI, GDP growth, unemployment, the current account and euro-area money supply) refresh every 3 hours from keyless open sources, each carrying its own source, observation date and retrieval timestamp — see /api/v1/live. Country pages carry annual World Bank indicators with their observation year. There is no live quote layer: company pages show the dated closing price that the market capitalisation is computed from, and nothing fresher.
Sources & licensing
Sources
Country indicators from World Bank Open Data; crypto from CoinGecko (Coinbase and Bybit as fallbacks); FX and the policy rate from the ECB; the 10-year yield from the US Treasury; US CPI from the OECD; identifiers from GLEIF (LEI), issuers’ own listing documents (ISIN, ISO 6166), OpenFIGI (FIGI) and the ISO 10383 registry (MIC); entity coverage and relationships from our own audited seed dataset. Full list with licences, refresh cadence and limits: Sources.
Licensing
Our own data — the entity coverage, relationships, schema and research — is CC BY 4.0, free to use with attribution. Upstream values are not ours to relicense: World Bank figures are CC BY 4.0 from the World Bank, crypto prices come from CoinGecko (Coinbase and Bybit as fallbacks), and ECB, US Treasury and OECD series are reused under their own terms. The API says so explicitly: every response scopes the licence, and every sourced value carries its own source field. We publish no bulk vendor dataset, and licensed identifiers (CUSIP, SEDOL) are validated but never republished. Full detail: Sources.
Sponsor a dataset
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