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Search institutions

search_institutions

Deprecated: prefer search_brands, which returns one result per bank with every way to connect it. Search for financial institutions across all active provider instances. Returns a merged list with providerInstanceId — pass that to create_bank_link to start a connection. Narrow by country code or target a single provider with providerInstanceId.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	required	Institution name or keyword to search for
`countryCodes`	string[]	optional	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 filter, e.g. ["AU", "GB"]. Omit to search all regions.
`providerInstanceId`	string	optional	Limit search to one provider, e.g. "saltedge:uk" for UK banks or "saltedge:eu" for European (EEA) banks. Omit for multi-provider fan-out.

Example call

The tool call an MCP client sends (required arguments shown with placeholder values).

{
  "tool": "search_institutions",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "value"
  }
}

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