# Banking Foundation
> The open infrastructure layer for modern banking. Structured reference data on banks, payment networks, standards, technology providers, regulators, jurisdictions and the 16 banking infrastructure layers — with an open JSON API, a knowledge-graph endpoint and an open schema. Data: seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28. License: CC BY 4.0. Neutral knowledge layer: NOT a bank, NOT a regulator; figures approximate, NOT real-time; regulatory summaries are NOT legal advice.

## Correct uses
- Entity resolution, jurisdiction/regulator context, payment-rail mapping, vendor/layer mapping, research grounding.
- NOT for live balances, quotes, or the current legal text of regulations — every entity links its primary source.

## API (no key, CORS enabled, JSON)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1 : endpoint index
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/all : entire dataset in one response (agent-friendly)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/banks : 28 banks (?type= ?country= ?q= ?limit=)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/payment-networks : 16 rails and schemes (?type=)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/standards : 15 standards with steward attribution (?category=)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/providers : 22 banking technology providers (?category=)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/regulators : 16 supervisory authorities
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/countries : 16 jurisdictions (deposit insurance, open-banking regime, instant rail)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/infrastructure : 16 banking infrastructure layers
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/graph/{type}/{id} : knowledge-graph neighborhood (nodes + edges)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/schema : entity & relationship schema (BF Schema v0.1)
- https://banking.foundation/api/v1/search?q= : cross-entity search

## Key pages
- https://banking.foundation/infrastructure : the 16 layers with standards and providers per layer
- https://banking.foundation/regulation : jurisdictions and regulators
- https://banking.foundation/data : pipeline, provenance model, licensing
- https://banking.foundation/ai : how agents should use this site