Bank of England Statistical Database
The Bank of England publishes daily exchange rates, interest rates, and monetary statistics through its Statistical Interactive Database (SIAD). No authentication required.
Key Series Codes
Exchange Rates (daily spot, into sterling — use these mnemonics in the BoE CSV API)
- XUDLUSS — US Dollar into sterling
- XUDLERS — Euro into sterling
- XUDLJYS — Japanese Yen into sterling
- XUDLCDS — Canadian Dollar into sterling
- XUDLADS — Australian Dollar into sterling
- XUDLSFS — Swiss Franc into sterling
- XUDLNKS — Norwegian Krone into sterling
- XUDLSKS — Swedish Krona into sterling
- XUDLDKS — Danish Krone into sterling
- XUDLSGS — Singapore Dollar into sterling
- XUDLBK89 — Chinese Yuan into sterling
- XUDLBK97 — Indian Rupee into sterling
- XUDLBK93 — South Korean Won into sterling
- XUDLZRS — South African Rand into sterling
- XUDLBK78 — Israeli Shekel into sterling
- XUDLBK95 — Turkish Lira into sterling
- XUDLBK47 — Polish Zloty into sterling
- XUDLBK25 — Czech Koruna into sterling
- XUDLGBD — Sterling into US$ (special; not foreign→GBP)
Interest Rates
- IUDBEDR — Bank Rate (official Bank Rate)
- IUMABEDR — Bank Rate (monthly average)
Date Format
- Dates use DD/Mon/YYYY format (e.g. "01/Jan/2025")
- Weekends and bank holidays have no data points (weekday data only)
Gotchas
- One MCP tool call can list many currencies; the integration loads each BoE series in a separate upstream CSV request and merges by date (BoE rejects many multi-series combinations in a single query).
- In the tool response, each rates row uses the same currency strings you requested (e.g. USD, EUR) as keys when you used shorthand; if you pass a BoE mnemonic, that mnemonic is the column key.
- Response is CSV format from BoE, parsed into JSON by the tools
- Some series have gaps on public holidays
- Latest data is typically T+1 (yesterday's rates available today)
