# Singapore MAS Financial Institutions — Directory API (`nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions`) Actor

Search a curated directory of MAS-regulated financial institutions. Clean JSON for analysts, researchers and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 singapore mas fi records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Singapore MAS Financial Institutions

Look up MAS-regulated financial institutions live in the official Monetary Authority of Singapore Financial Institutions Directory (`eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid`). Built for analysts, researchers, fintech builders and AI agents.

> **Live lookup:** every row is parsed from the MAS FID on each run — licence types, regulated activities, address, contact and key personnel. Four optional fields (`aum_sgd_billion`, `parent_company`, `business_focus`, `inception_year`) come from a curated overlay and are labelled `enrichment_source: "curated"`; they are `null` when there is no curated match.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per institution (full output has 19 fields):

- `aum_sgd_billion` — Aum sgd billion
- `business_focus` — Business focus
- `data_source` — Source of the data
- `enrichment_source` — Enrichment source
- `fid_detail_url` — Fid detail url
- `fid_slug` — Fid slug
- `headquarters_country` — Headquarters country
- `inception_year` — Inception year
- `incorporation` — Incorporation
- `institution_name` — Institution name
  Records include a `data_source` field.

**Pricing:** $0.05 per institution record (Pay-Per-Event) — about **20 institutions per $1**. Actor start is charged separately by the platform at $0.01 per GB of run memory.

Only live MAS rows are delivered and charged. If MAS matches nothing, the run succeeds with 0 rows and a message; if the directory cannot be reached, the run fails loudly instead of returning an empty dataset.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull MAS-regulated financial institutions in Singapore on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Find MAS-licensed fund managers and return their licence type and status.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### ⏰ Run on a schedule

This is a monitoring play — schedule a recurring pull:

```json
{
  "term": "DBS",
  "fetch_details": true,
  "limit": 10
}
```

### 🔗 Related Singapore actors

**Singapore data suite:** [ACRA Company Search](https://apify.com/nexgendata/singapore-acra-companies), [SGX Announcements](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sgx-company-announcements), [GeBIZ Tenders](https://apify.com/nexgendata/singapore-gebiz-tenders), [HDB Resale](https://apify.com/nexgendata/singapore-hdb-resale-tracker)

**Cross-market hubs:** [APAC Disclosure Monitor](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-disclosure-monitor), [APAC IPO Calendar Sweep](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-ipo-calendar-sweep)

***

*Data from public Singapore sources.*

# Actor input Schema

## `term` (type: `string`):

Live keyword search against the official MAS Financial Institutions Directory (eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid). Matches institution name, licence type, or regulated activity. Case-insensitive. Examples: 'DBS', 'OCBC', 'Standard Chartered', 'fund management', 'payment', 'insurance broker'. Combine with 'sector' to narrow, or use 'sector' alone to list a whole category.

## `sector` (type: `string`):

Live MAS FID sector filter. Lists every MAS-regulated institution in the chosen sector (paginated). Use alone (empty term) to enumerate a category, or with 'term' to narrow. Common values: 'Banking', 'Insurance', 'Capital Markets', 'Payments', 'Financial Advisers', 'Trust Companies', 'Money-Changing and Remittance'. Leave empty to search across all sectors via 'term'.

## `fetch_details` (type: `boolean`):

When true (default), the actor fetches each institution's live MAS FID detail page to extract granular licence types, regulated activities, key personnel, incorporation note, and full contact/address. When false, it returns the lighter search-card data only (name, category labels, website, phone, address) — faster and uses fewer requests.

## `headquarters_country` (type: `string`):

Optional filter by the parent group's home country. NOTE: country is NOT published on the MAS FID page; it comes from the curated enrichment overlay, so this filter only applies to institutions present in the curated table (major banks/CMS/insurers) and will drop live results that are not in it. Leave empty to return all live results. Examples: 'Singapore', 'United States', 'United Kingdom', 'Switzerland', 'China'.

## `regulatory_status` (type: `string`):

The live MAS FID lists currently-licensed institutions, which the actor reports as 'Active'. Kept for backward compatibility: 'ALL' (default) returns every live result. Selecting SUSPENDED or REVOKED will return no rows, because MAS does not publish those states in this directory.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on total institutions returned in this run (1-2000). Each institution is one dataset row, charged at the per-result price. The MAS FID covers ~5,000 licensed financial institutions across all sectors. With fetch\_details=true each row also fetches a detail page, so large limits take longer.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "term": "DBS",
  "fetch_details": true,
  "regulatory_status": "ALL",
  "limit": 10
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "term": "DBS",
    "sector": "",
    "fetch_details": true,
    "headquarters_country": "",
    "regulatory_status": "ALL",
    "limit": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "term": "DBS",
    "sector": "",
    "fetch_details": True,
    "headquarters_country": "",
    "regulatory_status": "ALL",
    "limit": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "term": "DBS",
  "sector": "",
  "fetch_details": true,
  "headquarters_country": "",
  "regulatory_status": "ALL",
  "limit": 10
}' |
apify call nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GjtTGgViEphaKQz4U/builds/i4gZEP8zqfA3m6pBv/openapi.json