Bank of Russia

About Bank of Russia

The Bank of Russia provides an XML-based data access service exposing exchange rates, currency codes, and related financial data through parameterized URLs. Endpoints cover daily and dynamic currency exchange rate queries, a directory of currency codes (including ISO codes), correspondent account balances of credit institutions, precious metals price dynamics, interbank market rates, Bank of Russia deposit operation rates, currency swap rates, and prices for investment coins. Each endpoint accepts date or date-range parameters and returns XML, with XSD schemas provided for several of them.

Additional endpoints return site news, a lookup of credit institution names against BIC codes, and a list of companies identified as engaging in illegal activity on the financial market. The page also links to example client implementations for retrieving and parsing this data, including Visual Basic projects using SOAP Toolkit and the Microsoft XML SDK, and a PHP4 example that displays the USD exchange rate as a graphical widget.

This resource is aimed at developers building applications that need official Russian currency exchange rates, interbank and deposit rates, precious metals pricing, or credit institution identification data sourced directly from the Bank of Russia.

Key features

• Daily currency exchange rate quotes via XML endpoint
• Historical exchange rate dynamics for a date range and currency code
• Precious metals price quotes over a date range
• Interbank market and deposit operation rate data
• Credit organization name-to-BIC code lookup
• Server news feed via XML

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